"Big Brother" (2000/III) TV series 2000-????

User Rating:

4.2/10   

Director:

Simon Hepworth

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | unknown

Release Date:

14 July 2000 (UK)

Genre:

Game-Show | Reality-TV

Tagline:

Who's watching you?

Plot:

Big Brother is the UK's biggest reality TV show and is one of the most popular talked-about shows in British TV history...

Plot Keywords:

House | Prize | Task | Contestant | Gay Interest

Awards:

13 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Marcus Bentley	...	Narrator / ... (22 episodes, 2000-2008)
Nikki Grahame	...	Herself (16 episodes, 2006-2008)
Davina McCall	...	Herself - Presenter / ... (14 episodes, 2001-2008)
Grace Adams-Short	...	Herself (14 episodes, 2006)
Pete Bennett	...	Himself (14 episodes, 2006)
Mikey Dalton	...	Himself (14 episodes, 2006)
Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace	...	Herself (14 episodes, 2006)
Lisa Huo	...	Herself (14 episodes, 2006)
Richard Newman	...	Himself (14 episodes, 2006)
Imogen Thomas	...	Herself (14 episodes, 2006)
Lea Walker	...	Herself (14 episodes, 2006)
Glyn Wise	...	Himself (13 episodes, 2006)
Sezer Yurtseven	...	Himself (13 episodes, 2006)
George Askew	...	Himself (12 episodes, 2006)
Bonnie Holt	...	Herself (10 episodes, 2006)
Dawn Blake	...	Herself (9 episodes, 2006)

Also Known As:

"Big Brother 2" (UK) (second season title)
"Big Brother 3" (UK) (third season title)
"Big Brother 4" (UK) (fourth season title)
"Big Brother 5" (UK) (fifth season title)
"Big Brother 6" (UK) (sixth season title)
"Big Brother 7" (UK) (seventh season title)
"Big Brother Live" (UK) (longer version)
"Big Brother: UK" (International: English title)

Runtime:

60 min (including commercials)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Bow, London, England, UK

Company:

Bazal

Trivia:

In BB7, Dawn Blake became the first contestant to be ejected for having contact with the outside world. Dawn organized a special code with her family: if there was any bad press regarding her, then their family would tell Big Brother that her sister was ill. Dawn received this message and informed the other housemates of this code.

Quotes:

[repeated line]
Presenter: Big Brother house, this is Davina. You are live on Channel 4, please do not swear.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Omid Djalili Show: (#1.2)" (2007)

Utter freak-show that should have been stopped after series 3

I'll confess - I loved the first series of Big Brother. It was a new concept, an interesting experiment and I was glued to it.

Fast forward six years. BB has spawned a generation of low-brow reality TV shows which are putting genuine actors out of work and are responsible for stupid, empty headed people leaving school with no other aspiration but to 'be on tele'.

The contestants on Big Brother are now all-to-aware that when they leave the house the spotlight will be on them. However, what they fail to realise (because they are so vain and self-obsessed) is that once the media have chewed them up and spat them out, they will be consigned to the scrapheap forever, because lets face it - who would employ some freak who is foolish enough to have shown every bad aspect of their personality on national television.

Endemol and Channel 4 should be ashamed of themselves for persisting with BB - which is nothing but a money spinner. They couldn't care less about the welfare of the contestants, a point proved by the fact that this year we have had the worst bunch of idiots yet to grace our screens, including a former anorexic with pretty obvious self-esteem and mental issues. Sick. That poor girls life is going to be destroyed forever and just to Channel 4 could make an easy buck over the quiet Summer period.

BB highlights everything which is bad about society and shows what a tacky, celebrity obsessed place Britain has become.