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BBAU 2025 house build discussion

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streetlethal said:
as stated by the BB page, its a "pilot" season for 6 weeks, this season is just a test run, next year it would be a full length 12 week + season on another set which would be much bigger with a backyard im speculating.
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I havnt seen this. Where was that posted? Also are the housemates in lockdown already. I don’t remember anyone getting a sneak peak at the house in previous seasons. I could be wrong
 
bsting25 said:
I havnt seen this. Where was that posted? Also are the housemates in lockdown already. I don’t remember anyone getting a sneak peak at the house in previous seasons. I could be wrong
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In the Nine seasons, they used to post really cryptic images of parts of the completed house on their website. I think the last time they released official house-building footage was the Season 1 "Casting Special", which aired just before launch. (They showed a time-lapse of merging the Season 3 houses, though if I recall)
 
bradnak said:
In the Nine seasons, they used to post really cryptic images of parts of the completed house on their website. I think the last time they released official house-building footage was the Season 1 "Casting Special", which aired just before launch. (They showed a time-lapse of merging the Season 3 houses, though if I recall)
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10 era used to do the same on the BB website of images of textures and shapes in the lead-up
 
bradnak said:
I think the last time they released official house-building footage was the Season 1 "Casting Special", which aired just before launch. (They showed a time-lapse of merging the Season 3 houses, though if I recall)
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Not entirely, if I recall correctly. The BB Revealed special aired on April 11 2001, but the show didn’t broadcast until April 24. Despite the HMs entering on April 23, I don’t think they were in lockdown for over two weeks? Unless I’m mistaken.

And as @matts bb said, we used to get snippets of the build and close-up hints of the new design/furniture pre HM lockdown in both Ten and Nine eras. I even vividly recall photos of the 2005 (or 2004?) house being built from the ground up, after they demolished quite a significant chunk from previous years.
 
the Theorist said:
Not entirely, if I recall correctly. The BB Revealed special aired on April 11 2001, but the show didn’t broadcast until April 24. Despite the HMs entering on April 23, I don’t think they were in lockdown for over two weeks? Unless I’m mistaken.

And as @matts bb said, we used to get snippets of the build and close-up hints of the new design/furniture pre HM lockdown in both Ten and Nine eras. I even vividly recall photos of the 2005 (or 2004?) house being built from the ground up, after they demolished quite a significant chunk from previous years.
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Thanks for the clarification. However, according to the episode in Big Kev's collection, titled the Casting Special, at approximately 7 minutes in, they do show some machines clearing the site. Admittedly, there's no actual house in any footage, but they do zoom in on a drawing of the backyard. Although studying it, it appears that the layout changed for the final product.

Edit: Here's a screencap from the episode, it looks like the gazebo is missing most notably.
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the Theorist said:
Not entirely, if I recall correctly. The BB Revealed special aired on April 11 2001, but the show didn’t broadcast until April 24. Despite the HMs entering on April 23, I don’t think they were in lockdown for over two weeks? Unless I’m mistaken.

And as @matts bb said, we used to get snippets of the build and close-up hints of the new design/furniture pre HM lockdown in both Ten and Nine eras. I even vividly recall photos of the 2005 (or 2004?) house being built from the ground up, after they demolished quite a significant chunk from previous years.
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Yeah I have the photo somewhere where they gutted the backyard and put weird camouflage over the yard so “media” couldn’t take photos.
I’ll try and find it
 
dasnico said:
Advertising is key. ITV didn't put much effort in at all.

These adverts were big during BBs peak. I remember the anticipation.
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This style of advert really overstayed its welcome. Especially in the era where the eye looked much better in the teasers than it did in the actual titles ie. 2007/2008/2009. It really started to feel like they weren’t putting in any effort.
 
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