Big Brother (UK)
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| Series 7 (2006) housemates [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit ] |
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| Celebrity series 4 (2006) housemates |
| Winner: Chantelle Houghton Runner-up: Michael Barrymore Others: Maggot, Samuel Preston, Pete Burns, Traci Bingham, Dennis Rodman, George Galloway, Rula Lenska, Faria Alam, Jodie Marsh, Jimmy Savile (Guest) |
| Series 6 (2005) housemates |
| Winner: Anthony Hutton Runner-up: Eugene Sully Others: Makosi Musambasi, Kinga Karolczak, Craig Coates, Derek Laud, Orlaith McAllister (walked), Kemal Shahin, Kieron "Science" Harvey, Vanessa Layton-McIntosh, Maxwell Ward, Saskia Howard-Clarke, Roberto Conte, Sam Heuston, Lesley Sanderson, Mary O'Leary |
| Celebrity series 3 (2005) housemates |
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Winner: Bez Runner-up: Kenzie Others: Brigitte Nielsen, Jeremy Edwards, Caprice, Lisa I'Anson, John McCririck, Jackie Stallone, Germaine Greer (walked) |
| Series 5 (2004) housemates |
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Winner: Nadia Almada Runner-up: Jason Cowan Others: Daniel Bryan, Michelle "Shell" Jubin, Stuart Wilson, Michelle Bass, Victor Ebuwa, Ahmed Aghil, Becki Seddiki, Marco Sabba, Vanessa Nimmo, Emma Greenwood (ejected), Kathryn "Kitten" Pinder (ejected) |
| Series 4 (2003) housemates |
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Winner: Cameron Stout Runner-up: Ray Shah Others: Scott Turner, Steph Coldicott, Annuszka "Nush" Nowak, Lisa Jeynes, Herjender "Gos" Gosal, Gaetano Kagwa (African exchange), Tania Do-Nascimento, Jon Tickle, Federico Martone, Joanne "Sissy" Rooney, Justine Sellman, Anouska Golebiewski |
| Teen Big Brother housemates |
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Winner: Paul Brennan Runner-up: Caroline Cloke Others: Shaneen Dawkins, Jade Dyer, Tracey Fowler, James Kelly, Hasan Shah, Tommy Wright |
| Series 3 (2002) housemates |
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Winner: Kate Lawler Runner-up: Jonny Regan Others: Alex Sibley, Jade Goody, Tim Culley, Peter "PJ" Ellis, Adele Roberts, Sophie Pritchard, Spencer Smith, Lee Davey, Sandy Cumming (walked), Alison Hammond, Lynne Moncrieff, Sunita Sharma (walked) |
| Celebrity series 2 (2002) housemates |
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Winner: Mark Owen Runner-up: Les Dennis Others: Melinda Messenger, Sue Perkins, Anne Diamond, Goldie |
| Series 2 (2001) housemates |
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Winner: Brian Dowling Runner-up: Helen Adams Others: Dean O'Loughlin, Elizabeth Woodcock, Paul Clarke, Josh Rafter, Amma Antwi, Paul "Bubble" Ferguson, Narinder Kaur, Stuart Hosking, Penny Ellis |
| Celebrity series 1 (2001) housemates |
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Winner: Jack Dee Runner-up: Claire Sweeney Others: Keith Duffy, Anthea Turner, Vanessa Feltz, Chris Eubank |
| Series 1 (2000) housemates |
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Winner: Craig Phillips Runner-up: Anna Nolan Others: Darren Ramsay, Melanie Hill, Claire Strutton, Tom McDermott, Nichola Holt, Nick Bateman (ejected), Caroline O'Shea, Andrew Davidson, Sada Walkington |
Big Brother is a reality TV show broadcast on Channel 4, in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run. It is based on the Big Brother series produced by Endemol. The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopia in which Big Brother is the all-seeing leader. The main shows are hosted by Davina McCall and narrated by Marcus Bentley. As well as in the United Kingdom, it is also available in the Republic of Ireland,
Main series
- Series 1 (2000)
- Series 2 (2001)
- Series 3 (2002)
- Series 4 (2003)
- Series 5 (2004)
- Series 6 (2005)
- Series 7 (2006)
Daily highlights
The daily highlights show is narrated by Marcus Bentley. The show is broadcast every day at 9pm on Channel 4 and lasts an hour. However, on Saturdays the show is at 9:10pm, on Wednesdays it is at 10pm lasting 50 minutes and on Fridays the highlights are incorporated into the live eviction show (see below). During the World Cup 2006 tournament, Channel 4 rearranged the schedule several times to ensure people could watch both the football and Big Brother.
The events of the previous day are shown, and on Tuesday it is where viewers can find out who nominated who. Unlike Big Brother Live, it shows Diary Room conversations.
Generally, the show is repeated the next day on both Channel 4 and E4, but will usually be a cut down version due to the adult nature of the show.
Live Eviction
The Live Eviction show is broadcast on Fridays at 8:30pm on Channel 4, and is presented by Davina McCall. The first fifty minutes are the Daily Highlights, shown in the same format as the nightly shows narrated by Marcus Bentley. At around 9:25pm, Davina will "talk to the house" and announce the latest evictee before the show breaks at 9:30pm. Thirty minutes later, the show returns at 10:00pm when the audience are shown how the housemates have reacted to the announcement. The housemate is then evicted, and interviewed by Davina, before the show ends at 10:30pm. The Live Eviction is often extended if something special is happening that night, and other special live shows are often on other days.
Aspect ratio
Series 1–6 of Big Brother (2000–2005), including the four series of Celebrity Big Brother in between, were some of the very few programmes on mainstream British terrestrial television that were broadcast in the old 4:3 aspect ratio as opposed to the more common 16:9 widescreen format. The reason for this is unclear, but was believed to be because of the size of some of the hidden cameras. However, from Big Brother 7 (2006) the aspect ratio has been switched in favour of the 16:9 format, with Big Brother, and all of its sister shows, broadcasting in widescreen.The house
For the first two series, the house was located in Bow, London near to the [Three Mills Studios] which housed Davina's interviews and the production crew. After planning permission expired after two main seasons (and the first Celebrity Big Brother), Newham Council ordered the complex to be returned to a natural habitat. [link] Subsequent series have taken place at Elstree Studios, which offers more security than the Bow site (which had a public footpath running alongside the southern border). Even the Elstree site has problems, however: it is close to a residential area[], attracting complaints from locals about crowd noise on eviction night. Permission has recently been granted to extend the lease of the house for series 7 and 8 (2006 and 2007 respectively).[link]The tasks
Housemates are regularly set tasks by Big Brother. These vary from a short job for one housemate (often conducted without the other housemates' knowledge) to tasks over several days involving the whole house.Shorter tasks are generally rewarded with "treats" such as cigarettes or alcohol. The longer ones usually determine the size of the weekly shopping budget. If housemates fail these tasks, they are provided with basic rations only. Tasks often involve an element of performance, dressing up, or artistic endeavour.
In more recent series, some tasks have also rewarded or punished housemates with regard to nominations, such as the now infamous 'Pants of Power'.
Series 3 of Big Brother introduced the "Big Brother : Live Task" programme. Each Saturday at 9.00PM, the housemates would take part in a short task which could change the way they live in the house, one task gave the housemates the chance to remove the bars (rich / poor side divide).
The live tasks were continued in series 4, where winners of the task were treated to special rewards in a hidden 'reward room'. The live tasks were discontinued in the third week of Big Brother 5 to make way for further highlights from the house.
Live
The action from within the house is streamed live over the internet (for a monthly fee). Since the second series Channel 4's sister station E4 has also carried live pictures and audio from the Big Brother house. However the stream had a delay of 15 minutes so that audio and/or pictures can be edited out to comply with TV regulations. An interactive service available to digital viewers allows 24/7 access to the stream, even when E4 is carrying normal programming. In 2005 for Series 6 this service became available and free for 5.1 million viewers who have access to Freeview. During series 2 - 4 the interactive service via digital TV also carried up to 4 separate video streams; 2 containing live footage from the house, both focusing on different groups of people in different areas of the house whilst the others contained highlights from recent house action. Only a single feed appeared from Series 5 onward.Freeview Freeview viewers were previously able to view live streaming by pressing the red button while watching E4 and 'LIVE' is displayed. This redirected the viewer to channel 305, which required More 4+1 to be discontinued to allow for the transmission. However, as of 17th of July this feature was removed in preparation for a free version of Film Four due to air from 23rd of July.
Sky Sky viewers can also still watch it through the red button. [link].
NTL Subscribers to NTL Broadband Plus can also watch the live stream free over the Internet. NTL Broadband Plus users can watch it live here[link]
Telewest Digital cable viewers can now view live streaming through the red button.
Series 7
The seventh series of Big Brother began on Thursday May 18 2006 at 9pm. Fourteen housemates entered the house initially. The series will run for 13 weeks, scheduled to end on Friday August 18. The new Big Brother 7 eye was also released to the public on May 2nd, 16 days before the official launch.Series 7 is the first series to allow a random member of the public to enter the house. 100 golden tickets were placed in Kit-Kat chocolate bars, granting the finder a chance to enter the Big Brother house. Of those tickets, 58 were found before the deadline, but two people decided not to put themselves forward for the show, three dropped out, and 19 did not pass the required background checks, leaving a total of 34. The competition began at 10:30pm on May 18 2006, the launch date of Big Brother. Susie Verrico became the "Golden Housemate" after being randomly selected in a Bingo style machine, as each ticket-holder were randomly given numbers to wear as hats and armbands on the day.[link]
Sister shows
Big Brother's Little Brother
A second daily show, Big Brother's Little Brother, presented by Dermot O'Leary, shows news, gossip and behind-the-scenes details. During Celebrity Big Brother 4, BBLB was renamed to Big Brother's Little Breakfast as it was in a new 8am timeslot. Big Brother's Little Brother has been moved back to E4 for the seventh series to accommodate Channel 4's successful daytime schedule, Deal or No Deal and Richard & Judy. During Series 7, the show airs Tuesdays-Fridays on E4, live at 7.30pm, as well as on Sunday afternoons.
Big Brother's Big Mouth
The fifth series saw the start of a talk show about the happenings in the house called Big Brother's EFourum hosted by the irreverent Russell Brand, shown only on digital channel E4 with late-night repeats aired on Channel 4. The sixth series saw EFourum renamed and updated to Big Brother's Big Mouth, and now in its seventh series, the show airs at 10pm, Tuesday–Friday, immediately after the main highlight show on C4, with a mixture of fans of the show and celebrities all airing their sometimes controversial opinions on the show; all mixed together with Brand's unusual, risque humour.
Big Brother's Big Brain
Big Brother's Big Brain is a discussion programme based around the reality television series Big Brother. It is broadcast on Channel 4 every Monday at 11.05, and is hosted by Dermot O'Leary, who is joined by psychologists and studio guests each week.
Nominations Uncut
A show shown only on E4 which covers uncut footage of that week's nominations. It was on for series 4-6. During series 6, this show was shown at 7:30pm on Tuesday nights. It did not broadcast for the current series of Big Brother.
Diary Room Uncut
Similar format to Nominations Uncut, but shows just diary room footage from that week. During the last series, it was shown on E4 at 7:30pm on Thursday nights. In season 7 it is shown at 7:30pm on E4 every Monday and a 1 hour long version every Saturday after the Channel 4 show.
Special versions
Celebrity Big Brother
There have been four Celebrity Big Brother series featuring B-list and even C-list names as housemates (apart from the 2006 winner). To date, a high profile celebrity has yet to appear on the show.
The winners of the past series are:
- Jack Dee (March 2001)
- Mark Owen (November 2002)
- Bez (January 2005)
- Chantelle Houghton (January 2006) — Chantelle entered the Big Brother house as a non-celebrity, chosen after the BB6 auditions. She had to pretend she was a celebrity and succeeded in fooling her fellow housemates.
Teen Big Brother
A special version of Big Brother, featuring eight 18-year-old teenagers, was broadcast in October 2003 on Channel 4 and E4 as Teen Big Brother.
Unlike all other Big Brother series, Teen Big Brother was pre-recorded and shown some months after the contestants had left the house.
Big Brother Panto
E4 and T4 broadcast the special Big Brother Panto series, bringing together selected members of the various Big Brother series to perform a pantomime of Cinderella during December 2004. The people who took part in the pantomime were:- Nick Bateman (series 1)
- Tim Culley (series 3)
- Victor Ebuwa (series 5)
- Anouska Golebiewski (series 4)
- Jade Goody (series 3)
- Melanie Hill (series 1)
- Narinder Kaur (series 2)
- Kathryn "Kitten" Pinder (series 5)
- Marco Sabba (series 5)
- Spencer Smith (series 3)
Trivia
- Following the end of Celebrity Big Brother 4, 111 housemates have inhabited the house. 33 of those were celebrities, including Chantelle Houghton who was awarded celebrity status by Big Brother.
- The now iconic "Eye" logo was designed by Daniel Eatock of design agency Foundation33. The current logo (series 7) has a black and yellow/gold theme.
- The logo has become so well known that since series 5, the words Big Brother do not appear in the title sequence of the main programme.
- On the billboard advertisements for series 7 there was no name or date, just the black and gold eye.
- In the 2005 season of the television series Doctor Who, episode 12, Bad Wolf, largely concerns efforts by the Doctor to escape from a distant future version of Big Brother (UK), in which contestants are disintegrated after eviction.
- A 2D artistic installation between the carriageways in the Bus portion of Gateshead Interchange is reminiscent if the Big Brother eye.
Big Brother facts
- 2000 (Series 1)
- * First contestant to be evicted: Sada Walkington
- * First lesbian contestant: Anna Nolan
- * First snog: Melanie Hill and Andrew Davidson
- * First contestant to be ejected by Big Brother: Nicholas Bateman
- * First replacement housemate: Claire Sutton
- * First Big Brother winner: Craig Phillips
- 2001 (Series 2)
- * First gay male contestant and winner: Brian Dowling
- * Lowest percentage of votes for a contestant to win the show: Elizabeth Woodcock 2%
- 2002 (Series 3)
- * First contestant to voluntarily leave: Sunita Sharma
- * First contestant to be openly bisexual: Adele Roberts
- * First female winner: Kate Lawler
- * Least eviction difference: 0.08% (Alison 38.52% vs. Alex 38.44% - Alison evicted)
- * Oldest contestant: Sandy Cumming, 44
- * First contestant to "escape" the house: Sandy Cumming
- 2003 (Series 4)
- * First evicted housemate voted back into the house: Jon Tickle
- * First housemates swap: Cameron Stout with Gaetano Kagwa from Big Brother Africa
- * First UK housemate to enter a foreign house: Anouska Golebiewski (who entered the Big Brother Australia house for a week)
- * First double eviction: Jon Tickle and Federico Martone
- 2004 (Series 5)
- * First transsexual winner: Nadia Almada
- * Longest time spent in the house without ever being nominated: Stuart Wilson
- * First evil Big Brother
- * First woman to be ejected by Big Brother: Kitten Pinder
- 2005 (Series 6)
- * Longest time in Big Brother house: Anthony Hutton, 78 days
- * Longest time Big Brother on air: 78 days
- 2006 (Series 7)
- * Highest eviction percentage: Sezer Yurtseven, 91.6%
- * First contestant with Tourette syndrome: Pete Bennett
- * Youngest housemate: Jennie Conner, 18 years and 3 months
- * First single mother: Lea Walker
- * First Big Brother to let a random member of the public become a housemate: Susie Verrico
- * 100th housemate to enter the UK Big Brother house (excluding celebrity and teen): Michael Cheshire
- * First time Big Brother has had two houses running parallel to each other
- * Series with most housemates: 22
- * Shortest time in the house for any housemate: Jonathan Leonard (5 days) - not even in the main house
Show sponsors
- Big Brother 1 — Southern Comfort
- Big Brother 2 — BT Cellnet
- Big Brother 3 — O2
- Big Brother 4 — O2
- Big Brother 5 — TalkTalk @ The Carphone Warehouse
- Big Brother 6 — TalkTalk @ The Carphone Warehouse
- Big Brother 7 — The Carphone Warehouse
- Celebrity Big Brother 1 — Comic Relief & Dubble (Percentage from votes given as donation)
- Celebrity Big Brother 2 — BT Cellnet
- Celebrity Big Brother 3 — TalkTalk @ The Carphone Warehouse
- Celebrity Big Brother 4 — The Carphone Warehouse
External link
| Big Brother UK |
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| Series: 1 (2000) | 2 (2001) | 3 (2002) | 4 (2003) | 5 (2004) | 6 (2005) | 7 (2006) |
| Spin-offs: Celebrity Big Brother | Teen Big Brother |
| Companion Shows: Big Brother's Little Brother | Big Brother's Big Mouth | Big Brother's Big Brain |
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