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Shortly after we visited the new “Big Brother 6” house last week, someone wrote in to claim that there’s a secret, third bedroom with four beds. (We, sadly, got to tour only two non-secret bedrooms: the upstairs Head of Household lair and the downstairs room that sleeps nine. Trouble is? The season starts with 14 houseguests.)
For the record? If there is a secret room, I’ll agree it’s probably adjacent to the one downstairs bedroom everyone has to share. (I remember being surprised that there was so much less room in the south end of the house than in the north.)
Somebody else, somebody who did not find any secret bedrooms, wrote in. He claims to have participated in a week-long dress rehearsal to test out the new house. His report:
I just wanted to say that I was Mock House Guest for the Big Brother
House. Basically 14 of us lived in the house and played the game for a
week while the crew became familiar with the new house.
Things I learned:
The "Storage Room" is located left of the "Diary Room". This holds the
Iron, Ironing Board, Fridge and the Fish Food. Which you must feed two
times daily.
It will be funny to see the first people to walk barefoot on the
grass. Because the Astroturf burns the hell out of your feet. It
becomes an oven in the backyard.
You must befriend the Head of Household or another Houseguest because
they do not allow you to sleep on the couch. And the beds are not very
sleep friendly.
11 people can fit in the downstairs bathroom.
Shower in groups. This allows you to scheme and also limits the amount
of people to scheme against you.
When your bored as hell, it is fun to go upstairs with a rolled up
sock and use the dinner table as a dart board. It looks exactly the
same.
If there is a secret room, I would assume it was behind the subway
looking wall in the bedroom, but now I am pissed I didn't explore more
and find it.
The foozeball table didnt have a foozeball, you either made one or will
win one.
The Pool is freezing and the Hot Tub is just right.
The Head of Household room has a CD Player. Very nice perk.
I'll email more later.......
I'd still like to be anoynomous........or Capt. Fantastic
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Soapy females? Soapy hot females? SOAPY HOT FEMALES WITH FUZZY VIDEO FILTERS?!?!?!?!? I AM SOOO FUCKING THERE!!!!...And thus, it's almost as good as a tittie movie! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
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Has anyone ever tried to pitch a Survivor/Big Brother/Real World show to HBO or Showtime? I would think that there would be some advantage in being able to show T&A sans figleaf, at least in the desirable male 18-34 demographic.
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Entertainment Weekly just had a small article on these shows and that their are writers who script these shows to make them more appealing, and they are seeking the same money that regular writers make on normal dramas and comedies. The article notes that one guy on trhe last series of The Bachelor "structured" the story, giving it a beginning, a middle and and end. Through editing and sound mixing -what they apparently call "Frankenbiting" EW reported - they create situations for drama. Even Rebecca Hertz, who is the story editor on The Swan openly admits she made the husband of one of the contestants say his wife was "average" but then cut out his dialogue where he still admitted his wife was beautiful. The guy was pissed. As we all should be. These "reality shows" are made only for profit, as they are cheaply made. They proclaim there is some social value in them, but I only see dumb Americans willing to do almost anything for their 15 minutes of fame. And then we have the dumb Americans who will sit at work the next day and discuss how cool it was to see a bunch of people eating disgusting things or sitting in a house for 3 months just to see girls skank themselves and abnormally buffed guys show to the world how stupid Americans are getting. Its sad that you folks have nothing else to do tonight -maybe find out a way to help the UK after today's terrorist attacks? No, sorry, you can't pick up a book, or play outside with your kids. That's right, let someone else do that. Idiots.
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What reality shows do you consider sociological experiments? BB is the truest to a sociological experiment because it's just people dealing with each other. Sure they have competitions, but they don't have to deal with a lot of the extraneous things that the people on other reality shows have to. The live feed allows you to really see the experiment too and not just what editors deem worthy to put on TV. The live feed also helps if you want to circumvent the reality "scripting" that Electric Monk seems so outraged about. I guess he's never seen a documentary before.
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On that 50 foot high horse you are sitting on....holy shit dude relax....it's summer TV
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I've seen plenty of documentaries. And depending on your POV with them, they can be made to outrage you or support a certain cause. However, these shows are sold as entertainment and they are suppose to be "real", hence the word "reality". You sound like someone who realizes that these shows are scripted but you still get some rise out of watching them. Fine, I don't understand it, but there you go. I just see a further degrading of ourselves, and the many who watch these shows -TIVO them and then buy the DVD versions of them - I question why they feel need to watch them.
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Someone explain what the "secret" is again.
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you must be a sitcom writer with a keen wit like that....good one dude, hilarious....
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I have no problem with people who don't like reality shows, but I really feel they deserve a little respect. Yet, for some reason, people hate the whole genre as if a reality show had raped their mother. Of course I respect scripted entertainment more than unscripted, but that doesn't mean there's no room for reality shows. Maybe I'm just a sap, but reality shows actually usually put me through a greater range of emotions than a scripted show would. I realize that this happens partially because of how they produce and manipulate the show, but the same thing happens with scripted entertainment too. Even if a particular reality show is mostly fake, I imagine the "contestants" are still somewhat changed by the experience. I think these shows are often good therapy for the people on the shows and excellent entertainment for the viewers.
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Since Beauty and the Geek is over. I wonder how many talkbackers tried out for B and G ?
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Recently on British Big Brother, three new house mates were put in sans any of their stuff (just underwear) and put into a secret room hidden just off the diary room. They had to steal clothes and food and not get caught by the regular housemates. It was nice.
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was disappointing. I hope it gets better or I'm going to cut it off the way I cut off Survivor.
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The big "secret" this season is that there are 14 people in the house which is made up of 7 "teams" of two people who knew each other prior to the game and also knew that the other person would be there (friend, co-worker, cousin, etc.). If at the end of the season the last two people standing are one of these two person teams, the winner gets a million and the 2nd place gets $250,000. If the last two people are from different teams (i.e. their partners were voted off prior to the end), the winner gets $500,000 and the 2nd place gets zip. The twist is that each two person team thinks that they are the only such team in the house and that everyone else are complete strangers to each other. The strategy is to help your teammate stay in the game without being obvious about it since such a two person alliance would most probably be marked for a quick eviction. I'm sure in Big Brother fashion that is only half the story and they will unveil additional twists as the weeks pass. It will be interesting if a drunk houseguest lets slip that they are another houseguest's cousin or whatever, because then everyone else will figure out that the house is full of these two person alliances. Also - per the secret room, the previews at the end of the show last night showed someone finding it, and since they have only been in the house a few days, that secret will probably revealed on the next show.
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Jul 09, 2005 6:34:07 AM CDT
On the day of the London bombings more people in the UK watched
by supertoyslast
Well, not entirely true. News coverage dominated the evening ratings-wise, but by the time Big Brother came on at 10pm it seems that most people had had enough of the news. 4 million watched the BBC 10 o'clock bulletin and 4.4 million watched Big Brother at the same time. ITV had news on at the same time as well so overall more people were watching news than Big Brother at 10pm. But I still find it depressing that more people chose to watch Big Brother than the main BBC news bulletin, because soon after 10pm I was actually thinking "well at least something like this will make people realise how unimportant stuff like Big Brother really is".
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Some background on me, I was there for the forst Big Brother, and it ws good enough for me to watch #2, which I thought was some of the best reality programming ever, thanks to the evil Dr. Will. Since then I have always caught the opening episode of each new Big Brother, but not watched any of the follwoing episodes. It will be different this time, for I will at least watch next Tuesday. I feel this one has more potential than previous outings. Time will tell.
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It's that Big Brother was an alternative to wall to wall news that was repeated every 15 minutes since 9 the morning before,by 9.00PM the next day,there wasn't ma lot more left to say :((Reality)....Besides Maxwell was getting kicked out maaan :>(unreality).This year has been funny at times.What better way to release tension that pelt people in the stocks 21st century style.http://tinyurl.co.uk/m2qr.
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