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Big Brother 8.

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10:29 / 11.05.07

You know, I was looking at through the archives in Policy a while back and I found a curious, and little known, by-law hidden down the back of a dusty radiator.

Apparently, under current Barbe-law, posting on Big Brother discussion threads does not actually count as posting on Barbelith. So, y'know, if there were people out there who, in theory, had left the site and weren't coming back then technically they could post comments on the upcoming show here without, technically, coming back.

I'm just saying is all.

So anyway, after the %hilarity% surronding Endemol's handling of Celebrity BB is anyone intending on saddling up one last time and treating the recorded trials and tribulations of a bunch of shallow, nasty people as though they were of some import?

It starts on the 1st of June, and here's what we can look forward to so far:

For those of you in the former group, a few BB8 secrets have been revealed in today’s tabloids including details of a ‘Heaven and Hell’ task. As the name implies, some housemates will live like royalty, while others will apparently be forced to live outside, in rain, hail or, as is quite likely, glorious sunshine.

According to rumours, there will also be a ‘caravan of love’ parked in the garden to encourage intimacy between randy housemates, and a not-so-secret garden hidden behind a door.

So far, so standard.

Also today, the Big Brother 8 logo has been unveiled, a tweak of the show’s basic ‘eye’ logo. How wrong can you get such a simple logo? Pretty darn wrong by the looks of the new multicoloured eye – check out the picture in the gallery, top right.

According to the designer Daniel Eatock, the brief was to “embrace all colours within the spectrum, opposites, complimentaries and all the shades in between.” The different colours are said to represent the different elements of society, which seems to me to be a very misguided bid to appease protestors of Celebrity Big Brother’s treatment of Shilpa Shetty. A multicoloured logo to portray a multicoloured Big Brother?

Hmm, thoughts?

16:22 / 11.05.07

I think the logo is quite nice this year. Last year's yellow and black was a bit 'meh,' but I quite like the test-card gimmick of the current one.

I will of course be watching it this year, but it won't be the same without Dr G's psychoanalysis. In fact, the production team are totally ditching any pretense of social experiment/psychology this year, by jettisoning Big Brother's Big Brain. Big Mouth sans Brand will be a bit avoidable too.

11:22 / 12.05.07

Rumours abound that this year's series will also feature a pond containing a shark, and one of the tasks contestants will face will be attempting to jump over it on waterskis...

12:24 / 12.05.07

Also a task where they have to scrape the bottom of a big barrel (The dead horse flogging task was nixed by the RSPCA).

15:31 / 12.05.07

Rumours abound that this year's series will also feature a pond containing a shark, and one of the tasks contestants will face will be attempting to jump over it on waterskis...

Didn't they do that about two houses back?

15:49 / 12.05.07

Pretty darn wrong by the looks of the new multicoloured eye

What a load of arse.

miss wonderstarr

17:33 / 12.05.07

Haven't they done "Heaven and Hell", or stuff very much like it, since Kate Lawler's Big Brother year with the divided house? And I'm sure I've seen more than one House doing a Master vs Servant set-up: that mercifully forgotten guy who said everything was "off the 'ook" was in some kind of workers and bourgeois situation, I think, and the Shilpa/Jade CBB was based around an upstairs downstairs, domestics and gentry divide.

00:19 / 13.05.07

Hopefully, the producers are planning on going out in a blaze of glory this year - for any number of reasons, Big Brother is now beginning to seem like The Word did just before the end, when they brought in Huffty.

The format's run out of places it can go, but perhaps series eight could be a final scream of anguish at the iniquities of the sleb culture that Big Brother arguably helped to start in the first place. If so, and if the producers really pull out the stops, it may well be unmissable.

14:34 / 15.05.07

Maybe they should get the Chapman Brothers on set design...

07:17 / 16.05.07

Or that Jigsaw fella.

09:16 / 16.05.07

Or Davey Icke.

Damn I can't believe this fucking beast is almost back again, what a gutter. Heh, obligatory whine post. I won't be back, don't worry.

09:16 / 16.05.07

Who, Noseybonk?

Mysterious Transfer Student

09:31 / 16.05.07

Mike, I'm glad I'm not the only person who had that thought. Of course, the Saw movies are an appropriate reference point for late-period BB inasmuch as they're offensive, creatively vapid and despite all the hysteria, somehow terribly dull.

I will be watching come June 1st, that said.

10:38 / 19.05.07

In case there isn't enough L**d of the F***s action on Big Brother this year, there's always... er... L**d of the F***s

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:16 / 19.05.07

the Saw movies are an appropriate reference point for late-period BB inasmuch as they're offensive, creatively vapid and despite all the hysteria, somehow terribly dull

And the pitch for the first one was irresistible, too.

(Mind you, I didn't mind the second one too much, either. I have a kind of thing for Maze Of Death movies, no matter how poorly executed).

I'm obviously going to watch. And it's still all Ganesh's fault, only he's not here now for me to berate. Could one of you be a dear and put on this trunk for me while I shout "YOU'VE STOLEN MY SUMMER, YOU BASTARD!" repeatedly?

19:33 / 19.05.07

Come and berate him yourself, Stoatie, at Gane5h's Big Brother 2007 Thread for Moomintrolls on livejournal.

Come and join usssssssssssss...

15:35 / 22.05.07

I just duplicated this thread in a moment of stupidity and Barb search engine incompetence. Please lock and delete the other one. My bad.

Anyway there's no Russell Brand and it'll be Davina's last eva series- are they jumping ship before the big crash? Interest certainly seems to be falling off..

thoughts folks

Tryphena Absent

11:30 / 30.05.07

What is happening to the world? HELLO it starts tonight! At least pretend excitement!

12:45 / 30.05.07

I'm quite looking forward to the apologies for CBB myself.

Also to the fun of making terrible snap decisions about housemates based on the five seconds of "getting to know you" time I'll see tonight whilst they all down cheap champagne.

Thanks for the link TGF, now it's like Ganesh never left. Let the fun begin!

Tryphena Absent

13:06 / 30.05.07

I'm also looking forward to the snap decisions. Good stuff!

13:35 / 30.05.07

Digital spy has a rumour that the entire house will be female- with one male contestant to be added on Friday....

Is this years gonna be any good- i'm slightly worried that after the rapped knuckles of CBB we may be seeing a more sober BB than the last few... do i hear a "new Cameron" in the house?

13:39 / 30.05.07

I'm keen to see whether they try and repair the show's rep or whether we're in for more appalling antics.

17:08 / 30.05.07

Chris Bloody Moyles (not his given name) is presenting Big Mouth this year. Avoid! Avoid!

Essential Dazzler

17:11 / 30.05.07

At least everyone's going to hate it this year.

Essential Dazzler

17:16 / 30.05.07

There wouldn't be anyway to watch tonight's show online would there? Like This 4OD gizmo?

18:26 / 30.05.07

So then.

"WI member set for new Big Brother"

Producers have promised "quirky surprises" for the new series.

Housemates will find their bath is in the living room, their fridge in the garden and an oven-free kitchen.

The house will also be man-free until Friday, reports the Daily Mirror, when a "real hunk" will be introduced to the line-up.

More men will be brought in after a couple of weeks, it says.

The newspaper quotes an insider as saying: "It will be a hilarious start. The girls' behaviour will be fascinating."

19:01 / 30.05.07

I am sick with man-flu. Big Brother will cure what ails me.
*sniffle*

19:42 / 30.05.07

Just turned this on - is there anyone there who can bring me up to speed on the story so far?

Also: is it my TV or is it the broadcast that is fucked?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:45 / 30.05.07

SCARED OF FISH???

20:15 / 30.05.07

Top picks so far: Carol and Shab.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:13 / 30.05.07

I quite like Nicky so far. She hates everything except vodka and smoking, and hasn't whooped once.

21:56 / 30.05.07

She is defo my early fave, Nicky - "omg, Chick! I love smoking too"; unusually, but perhaps because of the early doors appearance of those simpleton clone children, I found up to four housemates not completely unpalatable on first glance. Shabs, the Amy Winehouse lookalike, was one, and the raver lady (Tracy?) while being an embarrassing person with a senses-shatteringly ugly jacket and, I'm willing to bet, wardrobe (I mean, really. I could spend days thinking about concentrated ugliness in a jacket and not get close) seems at least a nice person.

There's the normal youth'n'beauty fascists otherwise, although the one that *wants* to be Victoria Beckham seems moderately bright, especially for someone with that, frankly bizarre, avowed wish. Carole, I do not like, because she is a tedious stereotype; the same one really that provokes otherwise right-thinking folks, such as myself, natch, not to go to demonstrations.

Tryphena Absent

07:03 / 31.05.07

I like Nicky as well. She's a real, live home counties girl, which we've never seen on Big Brother before and she has bundles of Watford cynicism. I'm appreciating it.

08:56 / 31.05.07

Missed it, bloody missed it!

Fell asleep if you can believe it?

All female house with a single male on his way in? Isn't that a little dodgy in a kind of "Girls = Bitchy and will tear each other apart over The MAN" way?

Any good moments so far?

Dark side of the Moonfrog1

10:24 / 31.05.07

"Yeah, i'm into this new kind of music called Indie..."

Interested to see what Kieron makes of that one...

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