I would love an evil and twisted series of Big Brother with the slogan "Expect the Unexpected"

Davina Mc Call would host.

Emma and the new bit on the side host wold present Big Brothers little brother.

Brian Dowling would host Big Brothers Big Mouth

The launch night twist would be 16 housemates entering the house with a number attached to their clothing. Once all the housemates have entered one housemate will be asked to pick out a ball from a tombola, whoever's number matches the ball will face automatic eviction from the Big Brother house. That would be the most ultimate cruelest twist ever! I know a lot of people will say that it's stupid and serves no purpose but it would tie in with the expect the unexpected twist.

Then two nights after launch night Davina returns and presents the highlights, at the end of the show Davina then hands it over to Big Brother who informs housemates that they have two mins to make LIVE face-to-face nominations.

I believe that would keep the first week of the show completely fresh and would keep casual viewers lured in.

Other things that I would include would be;
Absolutely no contact with the outside world, this includes new housemates entering, letters from home or guests brought in for tasks.

24/7 LIVE feed - I would definitely have a red button and 24/7 live feed but I don't think Channel 5 could dedicate 24/7 LIVE streaming between Channel 5 and 5* so lets say that 5* has day and night feed, similar to BB10.

No Name-tags

The old Marcus Bentley voiceover

No eviction music for housemates exits, I prefer hearing the crowds reactions fully.

Absolutely no leaving the house for any reasons, once you're out you're out.

Editing to be slashed and kept to a very mild tone.

Silence - By this I mean that the voiceovers in the house should go hours if not a full day without speaking or summoning the housemates to the diary room. This would creep them right out!#

Severe rule-breaks will result in the hot water being cut-off, the bedroom being locked for 24 hours, housemates will have to sleep on the floor and food being removed. They would have to live on basic rations until the punishment is over.

Outside jail being re-instated

The house-tour re-instated

No messing with the prize-fund

If one housemate makes a rule-break will result in them being banished in 24 hour isolation in a small room and automatically facing the public vote

Some good ideas but the thing that sticks out to me is the drawing a number out. People will complain if its a big character or cry fix that it was already set who would be up.

People are never happy

mine would be:

for big brother to take on a science fiction style:

big brother would be aliens who's intention it was to observe humans and so they set up this house in essence to study them.

everything would be set up and themed in a very sci-fi atmosphere.

they would initially be kidnapped by men in black, and wouldn't be introduced/enter the house with a crowd but instead would go in blindfolded and without any crowd or anything.

it would be a very experimental series, for example testing things like what it would take for someone to turn on the others and side with the aliens, their loyalties... at what point self interest overrides other things.
accomplished through building up a loyalty between them and then after that was successful, following it up with trying to get them to betray each other, etc.

one thought is to keep it a secret that it's aliens in power and if someone figured it out they could receive a reward (like a car or something), or it could be told right away in a debriefing and focus on the idea of human vs aliens within that context.

big brother would have 1 female voice when in contact with the housemates.
(always the same voice)

that's just the general outline, alot more would be involved.

that's sort of my fantasy/dream of what i want big brother to ultimately be.

the big thing i'm uncertain of is to try and go with a more serious vibe or to intentionally give it a cheesy, absurd humorous vibe.

Well thank goodness that Big Brother will never feature or have a theme involving aliens then because your vision of Big Brother is awful!

your opinion, nothing more.
that's the only big brother that would truly satisfy me.. since it's my dream/ideal, it has no relevance what people think of it.
(if the context is imagining a personal ideal big brother that isn't likely to happen)

My house would have 4 bedrooms 3 with 4 single beds and 1 double room and lots of snug enclosed places for bitching in, the bedrooms can also be locked by the housemate's and are sound proof. It would be back to basics in terms of tasks with only the main weekly task and housemate's would be chosen on the ability to be entertaining on their own but not be over the top.

There is quite a lot of the OP which I agree with and I have picked a couple of ideas up from other posts on the forum.
One of the main things that frustrates me about BB is that the housemates have become all a bit familiar and comfy with how each series proceeds. Let’s face it BB hasn’t really changed the way it interacts with the housemates since series 1.

The voice of BB has to go. No speaking to the house. A panel with all the housemates faces should be included in the house and if BB wants to speak to them then that face should be illuminated and an alarm played into the house until said housemate attends the diary room. Diary room interaction should be kept to an absolute minimum. BB is not the housemates’ friend or confidant or shoulder to cry on - the diary room visits should be for absolute essentials and emergencies only. Outwith nominations I see no reason why a housemate should need to visit the diary room, the housemates should be made to rely on each other. Be summoned to the diary room is something that the housemates should worry about.

Task instructions and such like should be passed by laminate through a house letterbox. Shopping lists should be passed to BB through the same means.

As most I agree that any interaction with the outside world should be absolutely forbidden. Nobody coming into the house for tasks and also no crowd noise to influence the housemates on eviction night. If BB insist on having the crowd right outside the house for evictions then music loud enough to drown out the crowd should be played into the house. Personally I would prefer the crowd to be remote from the house and the evictee should leave to only the production crew and then driven to the crowd whilst the adverts are on to make an entrance to the crowd and be booed cheered or whatever – it doesn’t matter as long as the housemates don’t hear.

I would prefer for the whole sitting on the couch waiting for the eviction to announced thing to be done away with and the evictee should be summoned to the diary room and quietly taken out the building without any farewells, see earlier comment about housemates worrying about being summoned to the diary room. The same with the nomination results the housemates would only know when they saw the faces on the aforementioned panel change colour. Same with the evictions – no bye byes just the face panel turns red.

As for nominations I am still for vote to save but will concede that when there are only 2 up then it just becomes a reverse vote to evict. Therefore the top 3 and ties should be up for eviction every week. Once this has been established no mucking about with nominations.

One idea I really liked was to have all the furniture in the house unassembled and the first task for the housemates is to get it all assembled. As for the first night no silly twists just put the housemates in and let them get on with it. The big task of getting the furniture sorted would be enough to keep things interesting and the group should be allowed to form without interference from BB. If the launch is midweek, and it does tend to be these days, then the first eviction should not be until the Friday of the next week. It should also be an all up with no nominations and the evictee quietly removed through the diary room. That will shake the housemates up and make them realise that it is a different game that they are in.

I would have 2 tasks a week. A food task which should be very passable but the penalty for failure being a very restricted diet for the coming week. And a luxury task which should be much more difficult in which the housemates could win things such as protein shakes, cigarettes and hair extensions, which along with alcohol should not be included in the food shopping.

As for alcohol I would have a BB bar from which housemates could help themselves but they would have a weekly tab roughly equivalent to the safe amount of units that they could not exceed. It would be up to them how they manage it – no extras or silly bonus parties for housemates who can remember their own names or sit upright for a couple of hours.

Ideally I would love a return to live feed but sadly I just don’t see it happening. But we can but hope.

So a tough uncommunicative BB which forces the group to be self-reliant and turn to each other for support whilst being genuinely and completely cut off from the outside world and then let them get on with it is my ideal big brother.

I would have a points based nomination system where every housemate over 12 points gets put up for eviction, you get points for rule braking and every week each housemate gets 7 points to dish out between a minimum of two people and maximum of 7 obviously on Sunday's and and then they get reset at midnight for the following week, if no one or only 1 person gets 12 points then the people with the most go up.

Also if you want a packet of fags when you have run out you can buy them with points you can add 3 points to your tally for 10 fags

Jesus, no.


Absolutely the worst idea ever. Would provide almost no entertainment and would be massively unfair to someone who had gone through a long, arduous process to get there at all.


I like guests brought in for tasks as long as they can't (as happened in BBCH) say anything of value to the housemates.


OK


I think name tags are really useful for the first couple of weeks.


I love it when Marcus is witty.

I like having eviction music. Anything that drowns out the farmyard noises from the crowd can only be a good thing.

Really? Loads of good housemates have had medical/ dental appointments. No harm is done.

I agree with some of your suggestions. But I can't tell you how much I would loathe an immediate random eviction. You could easily get rid of the best and most popular housemate before they have had time to open their mouth. What a waste.