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  Big Brother UK TV Series Fan Site and Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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General chat and rants about the Big Brother UK tv series.
Painted, potatoshopped or otherwise stupidly manipulated images of the ' stars ' of big brother, including old series hasbeens and neverweres.
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  Big Brother (UK TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Big Brother is a TV reality show shown on Channel 4 in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run.
The seventh main series is to begin on 18 May 2006 and Davina McCall will be the eviction night host, as she has in all series to date.
Big Brother is one of very few programmes on mainstream British terrestrial television that is still broadcast in the old 4:3 aspect ratio as opposed to the more common 16:9 widescreen format.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Big_Brother_(UK_TV_series)   (1501 words)

  
 Big Brother UK series 4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One housemate, Cameron Stout, accepted a challenge from Big Brother and discovered it meant spending a week in the Big Brother Africa house (one of the African housemates, Gaetano, spent some time in the UK house in return).
There was a surprise double eviction, a surprise new housemate, and a surprise return by evicted housemate Jon Tickle for the last two weeks (he was not eligible to win).
Despite the surprises of this series, many felt the format had become stale and that the housemates themselves were too bland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Big_Brother_UK_series_4   (281 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - 'Big Brother' - the TV Programme (UK)
In series one, each episode opened with the music playing over a shot of an eye - representing the theme of 'Big Brother is Watching You' - and the eye belonged to housemate Mel, though she had no idea about this until the night of her eviction.
Big Brother 2 saw the introduction of a room set apart from the main house that was designed for 'private' chats, while BB5 unveiled a secret 'flat' where two of the housemates were forced to live in isolation while spying on the others via TV cameras and monitors.
Dean O'Loughlin: Emerging third from the Big Brother house, Brummie Dean was widely thought, by the public and the Big Brother psychiatrists, to be the father figure of the house.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A623620   (12708 words)

  
 feeling listless - big brother one
The Big Brother house was a necessarily sterile place where cultural pursuits were kept to a minimum.
Big Brother Eleven became a microcosm of the current state of Popular and High culture in the UK.
Big Brother decided that perhaps they would be more invigorated by the works of Bobby Davro, paralleling the attitude of the two main TV channels on a Saturday night.
www.geocities.com /feelinglistless/bigbrotherone.htm   (1508 words)

  
 Big Brother (UK) - The TV IV
Big Brother (2000–) is a summer show that airs annually in the United Kingdom.
They are Big Brother's Little Brother, which is a daily 30-minute talk show hosted by Dermot O'Leary that analyzes housemate dynamics.
The other show is Big Brother's Big Mouth, which is a 30-minute forum show hosted by Russell Brand where people talk about and give opinions about the housemates.
tviv.org /wiki/Big_Brother_(UK)   (365 words)

  
 Big Brother (UK TV series) -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The seventh main series is to begin on 26 May 2006 and Davina McCall will be the eviction night host, as she has in all series to date.
Series 7 is planned, and on January 20 2006 details about auditions were released on the Official Big Brother website[1].
In Teen Big Brother, for the first time in UK Big Brother history, two of the housemates, Jade Dyer and Tommy Wright, had sex, sparking massive controversy from the media and safe sex campaigners.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Big_Brother_(UK)   (1410 words)

  
 Big Brother (Australia) TV Show - Big Brother (Australia) Television Show - TV.com
The concept of Big Brother is both simple and complicated - 15 Australians locked in a house, being recorded by dozens of cameras 24/7.
Big Brother is a reality series where a bunch of people are put into a house for 3 months and eventually people are voted out until you have a winner.
Big Brother, which began in 2000, has become an annual tradition for fans; every summer they are treated to new houseguests, new challenges, and new evictions!
www.tv.com /big-brother-australia/show/3782/summary.html   (553 words)

  
 Posts from the Big Brother Uk Category at TV Squad
Former 'civilian' Big Brother contestant Jade Goody went head-to-head against Bollywood actress Shilpa during the public eviction vote tonight on Celebrity Big Brother, and was given her marching orders to leave the house.
The 13-week long marathon that was the seventh series of the popular reality TV show Big Brother in the U.K. ended last night, with Tourette Syndrome sufferer Pete Bennett ending the show as the last remaining contestant in the house and earning himself £100,000 prize money in the process.
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www.tvsquad.com /category/big-brother-uk   (2165 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
Private Stars, which has been inspired by Channel 4's hugely successful Big Brother series, centres on the experiences of five female porn models who are locked in a house with five male members of the public.
There has already been growing concern over the behaviour of contestants on Big Brother, which was last week criticised for its lewdness.
Channel 4 is under pressure to drop the show after two female contestants streaked through the house naked and another allowed fellow housemates to lick jam off her breasts.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/11/nporn11.xml   (945 words)

  
 Big Brother UK TV Series - Unofficial forum and site following the UK Big Brother TV Series 8 2007 :: Index
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News from the media about the big brother series, links to articles from the newspapers, that kinda thing.
Anything you feel you must share that isn't big brother related.
bigbrotherforum.lovelysecx.com   (262 words)

  
 Big Brother -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, a voluntary organization that mentors youth
Big Brother (records), the UK record-label of Oasis
Big Brother and the Holding Company, a band from San Francisco's psychedelic era, best-known for its most famous lead-singer, Janis Joplin
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Big_Brother   (321 words)

  
 Big Brother 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Big Brother won the prize for most popular factual programme at the National TV Awards.
She claims she only added a stone while she was inside the Big Brother House.
But she admitted she couldn't fit into any of the clothes she had taken into the house with at the start of the series.
theinternetforum.co.uk /bigbrother3   (419 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Big Brother - Uncut - The Official Video [2000]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Big Brother was the TV event of 2000.
The set-up--put 10 members of the public in a specially constructed house, keep them under 24-hour surveillance and watch them sweat out the weekly evictions of one of their number, voted by us, the public--was derived from a hugely successful Dutch programme, and gripping, unmissable stuff it proved to be over here, too.
So if you were a fan of big brother or if you never watched it, buy it to see what the big deal was.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005422U   (912 words)

  
 AfterElton.com - Big Brother UK Embraces Gay Men
Incredibly popular in the UK (averaging between 3 and 4 million viewers), and fodder for daily gossip, the show seems to capitalize on something the American version ignores: homosexuality.
A few contestants have been reprimanded by Big Brother UK (where the producers have a much bigger presence as an entity in the house) for bad behavior.
In the UK version, it is the television audience who votes to evict a house member, not the guests themselves, and a new episode airs on Channel 4 every week day (vs. only three times a week in the U.S.).
www.afterelton.com /TV/2005/8/bigbrother6.html   (558 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Middle East | Arab Big Brother show suspended
The series, which began on 22 February, caused a public outcry in Bahrain where it was being filmed.
The Arab version of Big Brother, which has been renamed Al-Ra'is (The Boss) in Arabic, put 12 housemates - six men and six women - from around the Arab world in a purpose-built house on Amwaj Island in Bahrain.
The controversy over Big Brother came as another Arab reality TV show ended.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3522897.stm   (441 words)

  
 Big Brother in general - TV Programs Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
I must admit, 6 years ago when Big Brother first hit our screens I was in my early teens and was quite excited by the whole thing.
Big Brother in general : Probably THE Best Programme Ever....
Since inception in the land of dikes and windmills, BB has spawned copy cat series around the world, nearly all bordering on soft-core pornography what with all the sexual deviants thrown together to keep the viewing public tuned in.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /tv-programs/big-brother-in-general   (187 words)

  
 IDEASFACTORY UK: Film &TV Zone: Big Brother   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Given that Big Brother 4 did a tremendous belly flop in the Dead Sea in 2003, it's hard to conceive why Endemol have decided to keep this ageing donkey afloat.
Ironically Big Brother set out to create madness, but when turbulence came through the window, BB kicked chaos out of the door.
Big Brother 'Gets Evil' is the phraseology that is being bandied around like Nadia's humungous breasts.
www.ideasfactory.com /film_tv/features/ftv_feature49.htm   (1311 words)

  
 Big Brother alternative's from Swoopon.co.uk.
Big Brother Series 7 will be coming soon.
Big Brother UK Website is the UK's most popular Big Brother fansite, with over 6 years experience of covering the UK's favourite reality TV show, it has become the first choice for Big Brother news for huge numbers of fans.
Big Brother UK Website has always maintained a....
www.swoopon.co.uk /Alternative.aspx?keywords=Big+Brother   (231 words)

  
 MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Greer walks out of 'bullying' Big Brother
She said that Big Brother had behaved like a "child rather than a parent".
Before her decision to leave Greer had appeared to be wryly enduring the Big Brother experience, despite being forced to complete a series of demeaning tasks including being sprayed with rancid milk and plucking pheasant carcasses.
She said that she did not care what the public thought of her but that she wanted former Happy Mondays dancer Bez to win the series because he had had a hard life and would make the most of it.
media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,14173,1388383,00.html   (658 words)

  
 Reality TV Links - Big Brother - UK
Big Brother Shop - Find merchandise related to the UK Big Brother show.
Big Loafer - Leave your captions, comments and funnies on the housemates and vote for your choice as the laziest member.
UK Resident - BB5 - Forum for the show.
www.realitytvlinks.com /ukbigbrother.html   (606 words)

  
 UK's Galloway in row over "Big Brother" TV show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The flamboyant politician is currently taking part in the reality television show "Celebrity Big Brother," for which he is locked in a camera-filled house with, among others, a glamour model, former basketball player Dennis Rodman, and a singer called Maggot.
In his defence, the cigar-chomping Galloway and his Respect party said his time in the Big Brother house - where he cannot speak to anyone outside or hear any external news - will allow him to get his message across to a huge viewing public.
Respect party national secretary, John Rees, told Reuters the MP's detractors over Big Brother were "probably his political opponents" and did not reflect the feelings of his constituents.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1555324/posts   (1610 words)

  
 Prison Planet Archive - Big Brother   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
If you're a satellite TV or TiVo owner, the answer is yes, according to legal experts and industry officials.
A SCOTTISH computer company which stands to profit from so-called Big Brother technology has warned that it could be used for spying, unless legislation is put in place to protect privacy.
Big Brother technology that already allows people to be tracked through their mobile phones could soon be installed in household objects, tipping off police if they are stolen.
www.prisonplanet.com /archive_big_brother.html   (3573 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: "Big Brother" 4: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This "Big Brother" expose features: interviews with the contestants; the auditions that whittle the wannabees down to the chosen few; photographs and interviews with the selectors; horoscopes, palm readings and profiles of each housemate; past housemates; and "Big Brothers" around the world.
Like the series itself this book is back to basics.
Unlike the book produced for the third series of the show, Jean Ritchie has taken us back to the format used in the first two books of a day by day account of what went on in the Big Brother house in 2003.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0752215213   (374 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Big Brother baby plan scrutinised
A social affairs and labour ministry spokeswoman said inspectors were examining a request for the newborn baby to appear on the show.
Dutch cable channel Talpa was launched earlier this month by the billionaire creator of Big Brother John de Mol.
Talpa is also behind a new reality TV show which sees a woman search for a sperm donor and is in the running to be made into a full series.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4192662.stm   (326 words)

  
 Big Brother UK TV Series - Unofficial forum and site following the UK Big Brother TV series :: View topic - Jason & ...
Big Brother Forum : Big Brother General Crap
The goddamn FUNNIEST night of TV I have seen in years as they moved back and forth from the garden to the bedsit.
Also some eagle-eyed viewers on DS noticed there was a distinct lack of any er, movement in Jason's pants after all the pretend snogging and grinding.
bigbrotherforum.lovelysecx.com /viewtopic.php?t=429   (731 words)

  
 Big Brother 4 - the tasks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Entertainment and Media · Big Brother · Channel 4 · Reality TV · TV
The housemates failed their final task but Big Brother gave them the prize anyway - a Big Brother Christmas.
Big Brother awarded the housemates a prize for identifying the tune they were attempting to play, An English Country Garden.
theinternetforum.co.uk /bigbrother4/tasks.html   (406 words)

  
 "Big Brother" (2000/III)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
'Big Brother' has now run for five seasons with 'real' people (i.e.
Another nail in the coffin of British TV, an indication that poor taste and high ratings go hand in hand (that or the TV-viewing public at large really will watch anything and they get what they deserve).
You may add a new episode for this TV series by clicking the button on the left.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0257295   (332 words)

  
 Big Brother In Uk
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UK TV Show, all the past BB and celebrity housemates...
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