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Big Brother 9 one week countdown/youtube thread

CaptainWacky

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Channel 4 and Endemol have declared war on “wannabe” Big Brother contestants and are promising a “funny but evil” ninth series.


This year, a record 16 contestants will enter the house during the launch night’s 100-minute show, four more than usual. C4 has again committed to a 13 week-run, despite calls for a shorter series to avoid interest waning as it did in last year’s under-performing series, which plumbed record low average ratings of 3.9 million.

We’ve been very careful with casting this year and there are some characters of the like you’ve never seen before.

In an echo of series 3 and 5, when BB turned “bad” and divided the house into rich and poor halves, executive producer Phil Edgar-Jones told Broadcast Magazine that the new series would be “funny but evil”.

“We’ve told the housemates it will be full-on and there will be no leeway,” he said. “We’re getting tougher on wannabes and on the causes of wannabes. We’ve been very careful with casting this year and there are some characters of the like you’ve never seen before. These are not your typical screaming wannabes but people with a bit of depth, from different backgrounds. We want conflict but we don’t want endless shouting.”

E4 head and Big Brother commissioning editor Angela Jain said that Celebrity Hijack, the E4 spin-off that replaced Celebrity Big Brother in January and featured contestants with individual talents, had reminded the producers of the need for diverse housemates and to refresh the show as often as possible during its run.

“BB has the capacity to reinvent itself time after time and it isn’t in our interests to just churn it out. People are self-selecting and think we want a particular kind of person [as a housemate]. Our producers have to find the real person underneath,” she said.

The latest series will air as C4 attempts to emphasise its public service credentials to secure £150m a year from the public purse. BB has been the whipping boy for critics of C4’s output, but Jain stressed that the show reflected the broadcaster’s creative risk-taking, while Edgar-Jones repeated Peter Bazalgette’s earlier claims that the flexible format can confront social issues, “almost by accident”.

The commercial pressure on the show is also intense. Simon Bevan, head of TV at media agency Vizeum, said: “It’s been more under wraps than usual to build anticipation, and C4 needs it to do well this year. Without it, we’d see significant inflation [in ad prices], which will be tough in the current economic climate.”

Mindshare head of audio-visual Paul Rowlinson was pessimistic about its prospects: “Big Brother is mass-market and the only thing that helps C4 to rival ITV1, but there’s less of a feeling of an event each year. If it performs as well as last year that would be fine, but the feeling is that ratings will probably be down.”

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http://www.insidebigbrother.net/news/bb9/prebb/c4-declares-war-on-big-brother-wannabes.php

They're saying all the right things, those silver-tongued foxes!
 
16 Contestents heh?

1 Posh london gent, has loads of money, will probably ask to leave
2 Goth girl, with spikes through her lips, first to be evicted
3 cojoined twins, they get two votes, and can vote for each other
4 Hannible Lector, guarenteed a sparkling conversation, and always good when it comes to having friends for dinner
6 a detective on a mission to find number 5
7 Perice Brosnan, because lets face it, if hes having to resort to doing adverts for skin cream, his career is toast
8 and 9, the two 118 guys
10 a man with tattooes over every part of his body
11 a small turtle named Basil
12 an illegal immigrant who will arive at the house under the axle of a truck from france
13 Hilary Clinton (lets face it, she wont be doing much else for the next 13 weeks)
14 the ghost of George Peppard
15 a woman who only communicates through mime
16 that guy whos been hiccuping since 1972
 
I will have my uk tv website up just in time to have BB featured from the start. So everyone will have easy access to this years BB no matter where they are in the world.

Hell yeah.
 
Probably the ones who churn out a bunch of stereotypical phrases the second they come in. "OH MY DAAAAYS!"
 
Charley and Chanelle are two glaring examples from last year. Shabnam was probably the ultimate wannabe, but she was so honest and insane about it that it was funny.
 
I'll watch the first one, with 16 contestants though I cant see the first one lasting an hour, so I might not catch the second hour.
 
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