Category: News and goss

Some one should let the work experience kids out of the video editing studio at Channel Nine. On Sunday night Melbourne viewers were treated to a new Big Brother promo with some not so familiar visuals.

While the ad promised housemates from Melbourne would be on the show, the visuals displayed a backdrop of Perth. Oops.

The video was also posted to the official Big Brother Youtube account without the error being noticed, but was quickly yanked when fans noticed. Luckily, copies are still making their way around the internet. Watch below:

Over the past few weeks, we’ve all been seeing some positive signs; a host who knows how to shuffle, an Executive Producer who’s in touch with his audience and a housemate hunt that promises to weed out the sterotypes. Adding yet another dimension to the new series is today’s announcement that the lovely Mike Goldman will be gracing our airwaves in the new series.

Goldman, a Big Brother institution, seems to have been given somewhat of a back seat in 2012, with The Age reporting that there “will be no on screen presence” of his role in this season’s production. To much of the audience, this comes as welcome news as it will allow the nostalgia of past years to come flooding back without the dose of nausea that usually accompanied his performances in front of the camera.

This also raises another important point about the 2012 series. Goldman is cheap labor – in past years, he was used by the production team in multiple roles; narrator, presenter of Up Late and the Friday night games and possibly as a coffee kid / footrest for the host.  If they were going to bring back these spin-off productions, wouldn’t you think that the same arrangement would be applied?

That’s unless there isn’t going to be a host, or there isn’t going to be a reincarnation of these shows during the series at all…

The new Big Brother 2012 promo ad shot in Parramatta is now making its way across the country. Watch below.

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The latest round of promo ads on Channel Nine have revealed Leon Murray, who was the voice of Big Brother in 2008, will return in the role. Leon’s voice can be heard in the new ads denying access to the ‘blonde bimbo’ and ‘muscle jock’ types.

There have been rumours most crew members who were part of the show during it’s run on Channel 10 were approached to rejoin in 2012. The new executive producer, Alex Mavroidakis, had already been a producer for BB spinoffs shows like ‘Uncut’.

Leon has been working on the show for many years, first as an editor for Big Brother Uplate before taking over the Big Brother voice in 2008. Here’s a clip of him as crew member of the week back in 2004:

We have a date!

Peter Wiltshire from Channel Nine revealed yesterday that Big Brother will premiere on Monday 13 August, the day after the Olympic closing ceremony is broadcast.

Wiltshire also revealed Big Brother will run for 12 weeks, which takes the show back to its early season length of approximately 86 days. The show length has been known to change mid-season, however.

Housemates will likely enter the house on the Saturday or Sunday night prior, if Nine go with the pre-recorded format favoured by Channel Ten in the later seasons of the show.

Nine is intending to hold on to the audience turned in for the Olympics by having no break between it’s wrap up and the BB launch.

The new ‘adult’ show was also confirmed by Wiltshire as containing content not suitable for the 7pm “family friendly” daily show.