Read this:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2004142910.html

BIG Brother bosses are plotting to have TWO houses — so bores will be evicted early.

They are keen to make this year’s show more lively after admitting the last contestants “disappointed”.

The sets of housemates would be filmed simultaneously with viewers voting for the most interesting. They will be whittled down to 12 and eventually moved to one house.

An insider revealed: “The problem is that some contestants who seem fun at the auditions freeze up in the house and make it to the end by keeping a low profile. Having two houses will be like a final audition.”





Opinions?

I'm really not sure about this, but if it's true, they will go ahead and do this anyway, and get even more money out of the public before the show even starts. It's as if , if they bomb with this one, they can pass the buck and put the blame back on us, with a 'well you chose the final twelve'.

They did ok with the first three shows and messed it up with the fourth one, but they know this, should learn by their mistakes and trust their judgement this time.

It doesn't say how many would be in each house to start with, but if each started with 12 and had to be whittled down to 6 , 12 going into the final house, even if there were double evictions , it must surely mean that BB would run for longer this year ( which would be ok by me )

and more public votes and money for €ndemol and C4, or am I just being cynical........ No change there then.

Wasn't there another country's Bb where there were two houses and the contestants in the main house voted who they wanted to join them instead of nominating for eviction during the first few weeks???

I just want the original format back

The rumours (from an audition applicant) are for 90 days.
another rumour was for 20 HM's to pick from.

I think this will be rubbish

Bring back the original programme. Big Brother is in danger of becoming nothing better than a tacky talent show

In australian BB they had 2 houses that competed against eachother like survivor, the house that lost the weekly task had 2 nominate. In think it went down really well and I think it is a great idea for Big Brother UK.

I watched BB Australia last year and this arrangement worked very well.

I think it could work well, all the housemates would be up for eviction by us. There are those in the past who spent two weeks being nice and keeping their heads down so as not to be nominated by the other HM's. At least this way we stand a chance of getting rid of the safe boring ones to start with, and if there are some that take a while to settle in...TOUGH, this is BB, entertain us or go home!

Past experience tells us that out of the 20, the 8 loudest and most extrovert plus any pretty girls would be voted off by the GBP..............leaving us with the 12 most boring ones

Why can't C4 just do their job and pick 12 interesting people........

Wasn't this idea raised on here a few weeks ago? Surely the expense of running two houses, when ratings will probably be at there lowest (at the beginning), would prohibit this?

The fact that there would be two houses instead of 1, why would this effect who would would be evicted? Surely the producers could just have 1 house, & say evict the boring ones first.

As someone pointed out here a few days ago. This is just BB drip feeding rumours through the press to raise interest in the series.

anyone remember the attic?

I'd forgotten about that...

Anyway, there could be some truth in the rumour - remember the reports of Endemol buying another house somewhere in Sussex last year, maybe they would use that house.

I'm not sure how this would work out in terms of evictions; the crowd would have to order tickets without knowing the location of the eviction prior to a few days in advance - Elstree or Sussex.

Sounds flawed.

that would be me then, gm........

...........and yes, I remember us having a bit of fun with the attic, which I guess was last years equivalent story..........

There's no need for any of this. The classic format worked extremely well until the producers choice of contestant screwed things up badly. I can't be bothered with the idea of two houses - it's just more gimmicky crap to make up for the fact that they seem unable to spot interesting personalities anymore. Bitter moi?

two for the price of one ~ that reminds me i'll have to buy some video tapes

Exactly.

BB3 we know who the public wanted to remove - Jade and Lynne. Jade not only provided a personality to the show but she provided the rows (Adele, Alex, Kate, Sophie) the voting tension (she was the loose cannon between the 2 camps) and the drama (would it all come to blows) and the bitching ...plus there was the PJ saga. Remove Jade and you lose much of that.

BB4 we know who they did remove - Anoushka and we know its very likely that Tickle wouldn't even have stayed long enough to gain fans but would be thrown out as boring and annoying.
We also know that Gos was very popular as indeed were Cameron and Scott.

The only reason to do this is so you can blame the public when it all goes wrong. Worse still it shows that they have missed the central need for a concept for each series - you can't have a concept if the public scramble the participants at the last moment - imagine Brian in BB3 or Spencer in BB1 or Adele in BB4 and ask what on earth they would do there.

I take your point, I was just hoping that the majority of BB watchers had learned their lesson. They really got the HMs they deserved last year.

One of the biggest problems for me is the fact that many 'boring and safe' HM's keep their heads down and don't get nominated, thus robbing us of the chance to evict them at all. Maybe a different nomination system is the answer. Any ideas?

Yes but last year the majority of decent BB watchers where outnumbered by the airheads who wanted to get their inane comments on the text bar at the bottom of the screen!

Looking at the original post it appears the idea would be for positive votes while there are two houses, not negative voting which tends to rid us of the most interesting HMs. So if the 90 day rumours are true there could be 10 contestants in each house, two evitctions (one per house) a week for the first four weeks with the least popular going (IACGMOOH shows that this seems to work). That would leave 12 contestants to move in together for the usual 8 week run.

I think this could work, it extends the show without messing about too much, the main 8 week run would continue as normal but we would already know the contestants who would hopefully be much more interesting than most of last years lot!

I would contest the assertion that the loudest and most extrovert/obnoxious HMs are the most interesting.

Of course you are right, as usual.....................

But I guess that most of us just react to what we didn't like about the previous series

This time last year my main worry was that we would have more BB3 Jade-like shrieking loudmouth exhibitionist types..............and i posted regularly that they should have older, more mature contestants

Now my main worry is that we will have a house full of Scotts and Gos's

After BB4 i want BB5 to be more like BB3

Don't we all Swing.....dont we all

Actually I would prefer it to be more like BB2. The tasks were better, (remember that morning of the first aid task!), there was just enough confrontation, and IMO the right mix of people. The only downside for me was that Penny went too early, I would have liked to see her unravel!