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Here's Nine's explanation of why they axed Sunday's daily show and moved Confidential. No suprise that it's all about the ratings, ratings,ratings. They dont care about pleasing the core audience at all.
A spokeswoman for Nine said there were no plans for an “up late” show or for live streaming.“The solid ratings for Big Brother meant we decided to move the half hour of content from GO to a Tuesday evening on Nine,” she said.“Tuesday was originally scheduled as a half-hour episode so it is now a one hour show, this content can then be enjoyed by a far larger and broader audience – the move is due to the success of Big Brother.“We moved the show to 8pm on a Thursday night due to the solid ratings performance of Big Brother – this episode is far more valuable to Nine at 8pm than 10pm and it now is able to reach a far larger audience."
Source: MediaSpy
A spokeswoman for Nine said there were no plans for an “up late” show or for live streaming.“The solid ratings for Big Brother meant we decided to move the half hour of content from GO to a Tuesday evening on Nine,” she said.“Tuesday was originally scheduled as a half-hour episode so it is now a one hour show, this content can then be enjoyed by a far larger and broader audience – the move is due to the success of Big Brother.“We moved the show to 8pm on a Thursday night due to the solid ratings performance of Big Brother – this episode is far more valuable to Nine at 8pm than 10pm and it now is able to reach a far larger audience."
Source: MediaSpy
buck07
Bucking the system
Read the love letter shredded on Big Brother
* by: By Holly Byrnes
* From: News Limited Network
* August 28, 2012 8:00PM
(Includes a PDF of the full letter)
Source:
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...d-on-big-brother/story-e6frfmyi-1226460208699
* by: By Holly Byrnes
* From: News Limited Network
* August 28, 2012 8:00PM
(Includes a PDF of the full letter)
Source:
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...d-on-big-brother/story-e6frfmyi-1226460208699
Behind Big Brother - Charne
What was it really like in the Big Brother 2012 house?
http://www.novafm.com.au/video/behind-big-brother-charne
Charne spills the beans to Nova FM's Smallzy with the Fast Five.
Who is the hottest? Who is next to go? and who will win?
Not sure if this has been posted previously?
Behind Big Brother - The Control Room
http://www.novafm.com.au/video/behind-big-brother-control-room
What was it really like in the Big Brother 2012 house?
http://www.novafm.com.au/video/behind-big-brother-charne
Charne spills the beans to Nova FM's Smallzy with the Fast Five.
Who is the hottest? Who is next to go? and who will win?
Not sure if this has been posted previously?
Behind Big Brother - The Control Room
http://www.novafm.com.au/video/behind-big-brother-control-room
Dirty laundry of the house of pain
Date August 30, 2012
Andrew Murfett
WATCHING Big Brother is indisputably a guilty pleasure. Being a fan? In pop-cultural terms, it's a dirty little secret, akin to admitting an affinity for Air Supply or Meg Ryan rom-coms.
I wanted to break down barriers. So I put myself in a situation I have no control of and can't get out of.
Sonia Kruger knows this. She had the same preconceptions. Her concerns, she says, were allayed by the producer's vision for the show: this would not be the bawdy, self-obsessed BB house of years past. It would have broad appeal. ''When the promos started to air during the Olympics,'' she says, ''it shifted people's perception on the tone and the spirit. The rebirth of the show is broad, but that's a good thing.''
Big Brother host Sonia Kruger (right) speaks to the first evictee, Charne White, who went into the house to ''push my boundaries''.
Kruger had initially been in the mix for the first version of BB on Channel Ten. ''I chickened out,'' she says. ''I didn't turn up to the screen test. I couldn't pass it up again.''
We are sitting in BB's compound, a five-minute golf-cart ride from the house. The night before, Kruger presided over her first elimination episode, culminating in the event of Charne White.
Kruger's strength on Dancing with the Stars was an ability to metaphorically wink at the audience and communicate clearly: this is not life or death.
''I want to bring that edge,'' she says. ''The housemates are unpredictable and I love dangerous television that's not perfect or too slick and could go off the rails. I like it loose.''
The first sense of this came last week, during the first nomination episode. Kruger has a live stream of the housemates piped into her dressing room. She noted sagely on air that several male housemates had dubbed her ''Krugs''. It swiftly became a thing.
However, on this week's nomination episode on Monday, when a female housemate dubbed her the less-flattering ''Kruger the Cougar'', the producers quickly cut away. Onscreen at least, Krugs kept her cool.
The housemates arrived on the Gold Coast one week before moving in and were holed up in a hotel where they were subjected to a media ban: no internet, mobiles, TV or newspapers. Following a modest after-party on Sunday night, White rose at 4.30am, completing more than 50 interviews with breakfast radio nationally. They all pressed her on the house's romances, what she really thinks of the housemates and her thoughts on who will win. Meh.
The toughest part about being in the house, she told me, was losing control. There are no clocks, so sunlight shifts and noise cues from the adjacent theme park were all she had to keep track. Most depressingly, only instant coffee was served.
Each day, BB wakes up housemates with various noises: jackhammers, traffic noises, classical music, high-pitched sirens. Some started to enjoy the lack of control.
''The housemates were becoming lazy from it and treating it like a holiday,'' White says.
''There were alliances and cliques. They are pushing people they don't like out. I knew if you didn't fit in, you'd be ostracised.''
Why go in the house, then?
''I wanted to push my boundaries. I [suffer from] OCD and anxiety, and I wanted to break down barriers. So I put myself in a situation I have no control of and can't get out of.''
Being filmed (and wired for sound) bathing and visiting the toilet certainly meets those criteria.
''Going to the toilet knowing people could see and hear you was awful,'' she says, ''but after three days, you try and forget it.''
The house itself is in essence an oversized shed. When Big Brother was last read its death rites, Dreamworld gutted the structure, retaining it as a storage warehouse. Work started on the new house design last November, and took 18 weeks to construct.
After taking the requisite golf-cart ride to the house, there are few words to describe the creepy, utterly visceral thrill of standing behind the glass in the darkened corridors and watching the housemates blithely go about their day.
An overriding impression, glimpsing the bedroom and bathrooms (towels, underwear and balled-up clothes are strewn over both rooms) is that these people live like pigs. The outside area and living room are more hospitable.
There are more than 40 cameras constantly trained on the housemates. A production control room operates on a 24-hour shift. Twelve staffers sit behind vast banks of monitors, some documenting (word for word) conversations taking place, others monitoring storylines and directing cameras.
It's in here that a vocal booth houses the voice of Big Brother. Sitting in front of a computer, he intones gravel-voiced instructions to the housemates, as instructed by the producers. It's an extraordinary operation that's fascinating to watch.
Indeed, the live online feed overseas BB franchises receive is sorely missed here.
''Watching the live feed, you see the silences, the laughter, the stuff that doesn't get cut into the show package,'' Kruger says. ''You also see that the producers really are a bit wicked.''
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainm...use-of-pain-20120829-24z8s.html#ixzz250I0qL8q
Date August 30, 2012
Andrew Murfett
WATCHING Big Brother is indisputably a guilty pleasure. Being a fan? In pop-cultural terms, it's a dirty little secret, akin to admitting an affinity for Air Supply or Meg Ryan rom-coms.
I wanted to break down barriers. So I put myself in a situation I have no control of and can't get out of.
Sonia Kruger knows this. She had the same preconceptions. Her concerns, she says, were allayed by the producer's vision for the show: this would not be the bawdy, self-obsessed BB house of years past. It would have broad appeal. ''When the promos started to air during the Olympics,'' she says, ''it shifted people's perception on the tone and the spirit. The rebirth of the show is broad, but that's a good thing.''
Big Brother host Sonia Kruger (right) speaks to the first evictee, Charne White, who went into the house to ''push my boundaries''.
Kruger had initially been in the mix for the first version of BB on Channel Ten. ''I chickened out,'' she says. ''I didn't turn up to the screen test. I couldn't pass it up again.''
We are sitting in BB's compound, a five-minute golf-cart ride from the house. The night before, Kruger presided over her first elimination episode, culminating in the event of Charne White.
Kruger's strength on Dancing with the Stars was an ability to metaphorically wink at the audience and communicate clearly: this is not life or death.
''I want to bring that edge,'' she says. ''The housemates are unpredictable and I love dangerous television that's not perfect or too slick and could go off the rails. I like it loose.''
The first sense of this came last week, during the first nomination episode. Kruger has a live stream of the housemates piped into her dressing room. She noted sagely on air that several male housemates had dubbed her ''Krugs''. It swiftly became a thing.
However, on this week's nomination episode on Monday, when a female housemate dubbed her the less-flattering ''Kruger the Cougar'', the producers quickly cut away. Onscreen at least, Krugs kept her cool.
The housemates arrived on the Gold Coast one week before moving in and were holed up in a hotel where they were subjected to a media ban: no internet, mobiles, TV or newspapers. Following a modest after-party on Sunday night, White rose at 4.30am, completing more than 50 interviews with breakfast radio nationally. They all pressed her on the house's romances, what she really thinks of the housemates and her thoughts on who will win. Meh.
The toughest part about being in the house, she told me, was losing control. There are no clocks, so sunlight shifts and noise cues from the adjacent theme park were all she had to keep track. Most depressingly, only instant coffee was served.
Each day, BB wakes up housemates with various noises: jackhammers, traffic noises, classical music, high-pitched sirens. Some started to enjoy the lack of control.
''The housemates were becoming lazy from it and treating it like a holiday,'' White says.
''There were alliances and cliques. They are pushing people they don't like out. I knew if you didn't fit in, you'd be ostracised.''
Why go in the house, then?
''I wanted to push my boundaries. I [suffer from] OCD and anxiety, and I wanted to break down barriers. So I put myself in a situation I have no control of and can't get out of.''
Being filmed (and wired for sound) bathing and visiting the toilet certainly meets those criteria.
''Going to the toilet knowing people could see and hear you was awful,'' she says, ''but after three days, you try and forget it.''
The house itself is in essence an oversized shed. When Big Brother was last read its death rites, Dreamworld gutted the structure, retaining it as a storage warehouse. Work started on the new house design last November, and took 18 weeks to construct.
After taking the requisite golf-cart ride to the house, there are few words to describe the creepy, utterly visceral thrill of standing behind the glass in the darkened corridors and watching the housemates blithely go about their day.
An overriding impression, glimpsing the bedroom and bathrooms (towels, underwear and balled-up clothes are strewn over both rooms) is that these people live like pigs. The outside area and living room are more hospitable.
There are more than 40 cameras constantly trained on the housemates. A production control room operates on a 24-hour shift. Twelve staffers sit behind vast banks of monitors, some documenting (word for word) conversations taking place, others monitoring storylines and directing cameras.
It's in here that a vocal booth houses the voice of Big Brother. Sitting in front of a computer, he intones gravel-voiced instructions to the housemates, as instructed by the producers. It's an extraordinary operation that's fascinating to watch.
Indeed, the live online feed overseas BB franchises receive is sorely missed here.
''Watching the live feed, you see the silences, the laughter, the stuff that doesn't get cut into the show package,'' Kruger says. ''You also see that the producers really are a bit wicked.''
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainm...use-of-pain-20120829-24z8s.html#ixzz250I0qL8q
Cowie
Jack lives here
Was the article marked as an opinion piece?
Honestly the "think of the children" catchcry gets on my goat.
Someone
Senior Member
Nope.
But I thought Alex the producer said the live feed was pointless and boring! What could Sonia be talking about? Honestly, I think Tim should plaster this quote across the front page of this website.
He also said we'd be going back to the purity of the format. And that the live feed costs too much for bird noise. And that online restrictions are more so than ever before (regulations haven't changed since 2008). Sense a pattern?
I say do it. Do it now.
Two things on that spokeswoman's comments:
a) She obviously doesn't understand that the point of Confidential was to discuss adult themes; and
b) She thinks that half an hour from Sunday with half an hour from Tuesday is equivalent to an hour from Tuesday. She doesn't seem to understand that we need a spread of footage from across the week, not more from one day while ignoring another.
a) She obviously doesn't understand that the point of Confidential was to discuss adult themes; and
b) She thinks that half an hour from Sunday with half an hour from Tuesday is equivalent to an hour from Tuesday. She doesn't seem to understand that we need a spread of footage from across the week, not more from one day while ignoring another.
Thanks pecan ^
Mr Turkey
Active Member
Siobhan Duck What happened on TV last night?
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/tv-radio/what-happened-on-tv-last-night-review-of-big-brother/story-fnefpc27-1226466854199
WHEN is Big Brother going to step in and stop the relentless bullying of Bradley?
Last night the loveable nerd was ignored, patronised, told that his body was “hideous” and that everyone wished he had died.
And it didn’t appear that he did anything to earn any of it.
Sure he continued to moan about the food fight the night before. I would have too, if I had to clean it up and do the laundry (Bradley does neither. He’s nominated for eviction for his chronic laziness).
His concern was that throwing around someone’s culinary efforts was disrespectful to the chef from house two (who, of course, doesn’t even exist).
Later, Benjamin - the man who was reprimanded for throwing water in Bradley’s face when he took exception to his dinner table conversation - slammed Bradley telling him he was like “the rat from Charlotte’s Web except everyone wishes you’d died”.
Bradley’s crime was to drop Josh in it over a discussion the boys had rating the hotness of the girls.
Then, when discussing whether the housemates would be willing to wear undies all day to see a full episode of the fake BB, Benjamin shouted “except you Bradley, you can wear clothes because your body is hideous”.
Both times, Bradley just coiled up and looked like he wished he was somewhere else. No-one came to his defence.
Ray and George won a “kissing competition” and got to spend the night together in the Captain’s Quarters as a reward.
Before your imagination gets carried away, the “kissing” involved holding a polystyrene heart suspended between their mouths for the longest.
The pair spent time spritzing each other with perfumed sprays, lighting candles and sitting in the spa talking about George’s house romance with Layla and the girl he has waiting on the outside.
Little did they know that Layla and Stacey were listening to everything they said through the toilet wall. Whoops!
With Ray out of the picture, it gave the girls an opportunity to say what they really thought of him. And that was not much. Even Zoe, who liked Ray in the early days, has been swayed by the continual moaning and backstabbing about him and now says she boils up with hatred whenever he looked in her direction.
In a strange twist, Benjamin wasn’t in the anti-Ray gossip session, he was busy bullying Bradley and moaning to Sarah about Angie. He said he found solace from Angie’s “like”, “umm”, “like” conversation.
Angie meanwhile confessed that “like” the housemates “like” attention on her relationship with Josh was “um, like” making her self-conscious and force her to pull away from him altogether. She wished people would just stop talking about it. Or so she kept saying, every time she brought the subject up. This was “like” repeatedly.
The break would probably suit old Josh whose thoughts, like many of the men in the house, have begun to turn to Estelle.
The housemates were challenged to line-dance in competition with the fake house. Zoe, the country gal, was put in charge of the choreography despite frequent interruptions from Sarah. After all, Sarah wears a cowboy hat everyday if anyone is a little bit country at heart it’s her.
They did a good job and were told they won. The prize was getting to watch footage of the fake housemates in action.
Of course Big Brother wanted them to see it, to allay any lingering doubt that there wasn’t a second house at all.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/tv-radio/what-happened-on-tv-last-night-review-of-big-brother/story-fnefpc27-1226466854199
WHEN is Big Brother going to step in and stop the relentless bullying of Bradley?
Last night the loveable nerd was ignored, patronised, told that his body was “hideous” and that everyone wished he had died.
And it didn’t appear that he did anything to earn any of it.
Sure he continued to moan about the food fight the night before. I would have too, if I had to clean it up and do the laundry (Bradley does neither. He’s nominated for eviction for his chronic laziness).
His concern was that throwing around someone’s culinary efforts was disrespectful to the chef from house two (who, of course, doesn’t even exist).
Later, Benjamin - the man who was reprimanded for throwing water in Bradley’s face when he took exception to his dinner table conversation - slammed Bradley telling him he was like “the rat from Charlotte’s Web except everyone wishes you’d died”.
Bradley’s crime was to drop Josh in it over a discussion the boys had rating the hotness of the girls.
Then, when discussing whether the housemates would be willing to wear undies all day to see a full episode of the fake BB, Benjamin shouted “except you Bradley, you can wear clothes because your body is hideous”.
Both times, Bradley just coiled up and looked like he wished he was somewhere else. No-one came to his defence.
Ray and George won a “kissing competition” and got to spend the night together in the Captain’s Quarters as a reward.
Before your imagination gets carried away, the “kissing” involved holding a polystyrene heart suspended between their mouths for the longest.
The pair spent time spritzing each other with perfumed sprays, lighting candles and sitting in the spa talking about George’s house romance with Layla and the girl he has waiting on the outside.
Little did they know that Layla and Stacey were listening to everything they said through the toilet wall. Whoops!
With Ray out of the picture, it gave the girls an opportunity to say what they really thought of him. And that was not much. Even Zoe, who liked Ray in the early days, has been swayed by the continual moaning and backstabbing about him and now says she boils up with hatred whenever he looked in her direction.
In a strange twist, Benjamin wasn’t in the anti-Ray gossip session, he was busy bullying Bradley and moaning to Sarah about Angie. He said he found solace from Angie’s “like”, “umm”, “like” conversation.
Angie meanwhile confessed that “like” the housemates “like” attention on her relationship with Josh was “um, like” making her self-conscious and force her to pull away from him altogether. She wished people would just stop talking about it. Or so she kept saying, every time she brought the subject up. This was “like” repeatedly.
The break would probably suit old Josh whose thoughts, like many of the men in the house, have begun to turn to Estelle.
The housemates were challenged to line-dance in competition with the fake house. Zoe, the country gal, was put in charge of the choreography despite frequent interruptions from Sarah. After all, Sarah wears a cowboy hat everyday if anyone is a little bit country at heart it’s her.
They did a good job and were told they won. The prize was getting to watch footage of the fake housemates in action.
Of course Big Brother wanted them to see it, to allay any lingering doubt that there wasn’t a second house at all.
Forgot about George's live blog, luckily it's been moved to tomorrow:
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...-in-a-close-call/story-e6frfmyi-1226479845718
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...-in-a-close-call/story-e6frfmyi-1226479845718
Another one:
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...ve-to-gold-coast/story-e6frfmyi-1226480308309
The link to that liveblog again, 12:30pm EST tomorrow:
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...-in-a-close-call/story-e6frfmyi-1226479845718
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...ve-to-gold-coast/story-e6frfmyi-1226480308309
The link to that liveblog again, 12:30pm EST tomorrow:
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...-in-a-close-call/story-e6frfmyi-1226479845718
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