I might be completely delusional but I really feel like a pre-season special like this could happen.
I’m just going to keep saying it til it happens. Just like the CBB marathon.
DID YA GET THAT -
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I’m just going to keep saying it til it happens. Just like the CBB marathon.
DID YA GET THAT 
James T
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I could see them doing a 20-1 style special where it’s “big brother’s biggest moments” with talking heads from former housemates and ‘celebrities’
Kingston
Canadian Royalty
Me tooI might be completely delusional but I really feel like a pre-season special like this could happen.
I’m just going to keep saying it til it happens. Just like the CBB marathon.TULLYBIG BROTHER?!
Kingston
Canadian Royalty
Former HM’s and Production but absolutely no talking heads. I don’t care what they think. That said would be interesting to see a group of fans sit down and hash out moments they loved though. May be a good way to get some rejects from auditions involved in the show somehow.
Just thinking about the shorter run, I still believe the primary reasoning is the 7 holdback clause, however, I was just thinking it may be a blessing in disguise going back to the original format without loads of twists or influencers with the shorter run. Just every day Australians living in a house. Keeping the modern audience engaged for 12 weeks with that format would be tough straight off the bat. There will undoubtedly be an adjustment period in this day and age with that type of format when everyone is used to constant drama, action and fast moving TV like we have all become accustomed to.
A shorter run with the return of the old format may just be the perfect recipe for the relaunch, short enough to keep viewers engaged and curious and then next year if they revert to a 10-12 week series the modern audience is already adjusted to and receptive to the older, slower, but more authentic and frankly superior format.
Of course 10 will still need to nail the casting and deliver a good product but I’m feeling really positive about this relaunch and can’t wait to get a feel for the cast and house, not just for this season but moving forward.
A shorter run with the return of the old format may just be the perfect recipe for the relaunch, short enough to keep viewers engaged and curious and then next year if they revert to a 10-12 week series the modern audience is already adjusted to and receptive to the older, slower, but more authentic and frankly superior format.
Of course 10 will still need to nail the casting and deliver a good product but I’m feeling really positive about this relaunch and can’t wait to get a feel for the cast and house, not just for this season but moving forward.
Kingston
Canadian Royalty
For a series as short as this one and the first series in this revival I wouldn’t say they need to “nail” anything so much as they need to show an effort was made to give us something worth watching again. A second season needs to prove that they’ve listened to critiques and once again tried to give us a show worth watching. The decline of this show will always be when they stopped trying to produce a show we could enjoy and started telling viewers what we should be enjoying.
Something that has quietly amused me during this period, is thinking back to when I re-made the 2013 season promo using footage from old seasons in the context of the new “twist”. Instead of the weird cartoony CGI stuff they actually used that year.
Alex Mavroidakis publicly retweeted my video at the time, with a backhanded compliment along the lines of saying: it was cool and diehard fans would enjoy my video, but implied you can’t capitalise on nostalgia and it would never work if it was a real promo.
Look at BBAU’s marketing strategy today. I’d say it’s fucking working, Mav.
I'm not saying he's right but back then he might have had a point, it was only 12 years since the first season and at the time we hadn't known about what 7 did to the show.Alex Mavroidakis publicly retweeted my video at the time, with a backhanded compliment along the lines of saying: it was cool and diehard fans would enjoy my video, but implied you can’t capitalise on nostalgia and it would never work if it was a real promo.
Look at BBAU’s marketing strategy today. I’d say it’s fucking working, Mav.
Now it's almost a quarter of a century later and most (me especially) long for simpler times with less bullshit and we all lived through whatever you want to call 7 version of the show, so the nostalgia hits differently now then it would've back then and the BB marking team have hit it on the head and done so well to hit that nostalgia and take us back.
kamui
Active Member
Having a promo playing with nostalgia will obviously hit differently in 2025 when you come back after two years.. and that's two years after witnessing a complete abomination of the Big Brother format, even longer if we go back to the last decent season. Whereas in 2013, they've been on air for a year and wanted to continue with the format.
But I think @the Theorist's promo would have worked better than the dancing thing from 2013, because it works even without capitalising on nostalgia. It uses old footage to convey a format point. Even if you don't know who the people in the trailer are, you get that something shocking or surprising is coming your way and you want to watch it to see their reactions.
I mean, the 2013 promo was so bad, it's one of the few promos the Spanish production has decided not to copy from Australia.
But I think @the Theorist's promo would have worked better than the dancing thing from 2013, because it works even without capitalising on nostalgia. It uses old footage to convey a format point. Even if you don't know who the people in the trailer are, you get that something shocking or surprising is coming your way and you want to watch it to see their reactions.
I mean, the 2013 promo was so bad, it's one of the few promos the Spanish production has decided not to copy from Australia.
The official account even removed all traces of it from YouTube and their website at the time. (Coincidentally it was right after mine started to go viral, but hey I’m not saying that was the reason…
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I’m curious when they’ll launch too. I’m also predicting a Sunday 2 November premiere (or Sunday 9 November at the latest). The former date makes most sense - if we ballpark a 6-week run, it means it’ll wrap by 15/16 December. There’s absolutely no way I see it running any closer to Christmas than this, so the first weekend of November it’s gotta be. The only way it could start a week later is if it runs 5-weeks or shorter, which feels unlikely.
Also using their BBAU replay marathons as a guide, if the next four seasons take two weekends each, it actually takes us straight to 2 November for the last episode of Season 8. In this case, the first episode of Season 16 airs that same evening. So...
The roller coaster reopens on the 13th December which pretty much confirms the series is done by then. We've seen nothing really which suggests the 30 day time frame will be expanded.
I wonder too if the start date of the last Seven series (6 Nov 2023) has any bearing on the holdback - perhaps another broadcaster can't start their series until 2 years has passed?
I wonder too if the start date of the last Seven series (6 Nov 2023) has any bearing on the holdback - perhaps another broadcaster can't start their series until 2 years has passed?
Has a new showrunner been announced for the reboot?Something that has quietly amused me during this period, is thinking back to when I re-made the 2013 season promo using footage from old seasons in the context of the new “twist”. Instead of the weird cartoony CGI stuff they actually used that year.
Alex Mavroidakis publicly retweeted my video at the time, with a backhanded compliment along the lines of saying: it was cool and diehard fans would enjoy my video, but implied you can’t capitalise on nostalgia and it would never work if it was a real promo.
Look at BBAU’s marketing strategy today. I’d say it’s fucking working, Mav.
That's an interesting theory. I'd have thought 10 could have launched a bit earlier than November but maybe you're on to something.
matts bb
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Don’t think it’s been confirmed but it’s been mentioned that a LOT of the old 10 era crew are back.
For those who might be following Gretel's journey on The Amazing Race (spoiler: she's doing really well so far), she briefly spoke about her time on Big Brother in the latest episode.
Not really speaking of ot fondly is she? I get the impression it took quite a toll on her.
Sadly.
Zcsund1234
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It is sad but also at the end of the day Big Brother wasn't to her what it is to fans. To us it was a show but to her it was work.
Kingston
Canadian Royalty
Don’t necessarily think it was always that way. As noted from the rewatch there’s a very obvious change that happened between BB3 & 4 and it only seems to get worse from there.