Big Brother (UK TV series)

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Big Brother UK
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Series 6 (2005) housemates
Winner: Anthony Hutton

Runner-up: Eugene Sully

Others: Makosi Musambasi, Kinga Karolczak, Craig Coates, Derek Laud, Orlaith McAllister (walked), Kemal Shahin, Kieron "Science" Harvey, Vanessa Layton-McIntosh, Maxwell Ward, Saskia Howard-Clarke, Roberto Conte, Sam Heuston, Lesley Sanderson, Mary O'Leary

Series 5 (2004) housemates

Winner: Nadia Almada

Runner-up: Jason Cowan

Others: Daniel Bryan, Michelle "Shell" Jubin, Stuart Wilson, Michelle Bass, Victor Ebuwa, Ahmed Aghil, Becki Seddiki, Marco Sabba, Vanessa Nimmo, Emma Greenwood, |Kathryn "Kitten" Pinder

Series 4 (2003) housemates

Winner: Cameron Stout

Runner-up: Ray Shah

Others: Scott Turner, Steph Coldicott, Annuszka "Nush" Nowak, Lisa Jeynes, Herjender "Gos" Gosal, Tania Do-Nascimento, Jon Tickle, Federico Martone, Joanne "Sissy" Rooney, Justine Sellman, Anouska Golebiewski

Series 3 (2002) housemates

Winner: Kate Lawler

Runner-up: Jonny Regan

Others: Alex Sibley, Jade Goody, Tim Culley, Peter "PJ" Ellis, Adele Roberts, Sophie Pritchard, Spencer Smith, Lee Davey, Sandy Cumming, Alison Hammond, Lynne Moncrieff, Sunita Sharma

Series 2 (2001) housemates

Winner: Brian Dowling

Runner-up: Helen Adams

Others: Dean O'Loughlin, Elizabeth Woodcock, Paul Clarke, Josh Rafter, Amma Antwi, Paul "Bubble" Ferguson, Narinder Kaur, Stuart Hosking, Penny Ellis

Series 1 (2000) housemates

Winner: Craig Phillips

Runner-up: Anna Nolan

Others: Darren Ramsay, Melanie Hill, Claire Strutton, Tom McDermott, Nichola Holt, Nick Bateman, Caroline O'Shea, Andrew Davidson, Sada Walkington

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. It is based on the Big Brother series produced by Endemol.

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Main Series

The sixth main series started on 27 May 2005 and Davina McCall has been the eviction night host in all the runs to date. Daily updates are narrated by Marcus Bentley. A second daily show, Big Brother's Little Brother, presented by Dermot O'Leary, shows news, gossip and behind-the-scenes details. The fifth series saw the start of a talk show about the happenings in the house called Big Brother's EFourum hosted by Russell Brand, shown only on digital channel E4 with late-night repeats aired on Channel 4. The sixth series saw EFourum replaced by Big Brother's Big Mouth.

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Location

For the first two series, the house was located in Bow, London near to the Three Mills Studios which housed Davina's interviews and the production crew. After planning permission expired after two main seasons (and the first Celebrity Big Brother), Newham Council ordered the complex to be returned to a natural habitat. [1] Subsequent seasons have taken place at Elstree Studios, which offers more security than the Bow site (which had a public footpath running alongside the southern border). Even the Elstree site has problems, however: it is close to a residential area, attracting complaints from locals about crowd noise on eviction night. A new location might be used for series seven (2006). [2]

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Live

The action from within the house is streamed live over the internet (for a monthly fee). Since the second series Channel 4's sister station E4 has also carried live pictures and audio from the Big Brother house. However the stream had a delay of 15 minutes so that audio and/or pictures can be edited out to comply with TV regulations. An interactive service available to digital viewers allows 24/7 access to the stream, even when E4 is carrying normal programming. In 2005 for Series 6 this service became available and free for 5.1 million viewers who have access to Freeview. During series 2 - 4 the interactive service via digital TV also carried up to 4 separate video streams; 2 containing live footage from the house, both focussing on different groups of people in different areas of the house whilst the others contained highlights from recent house action. Unfortunately only a single feed appeared from Series 5 onward.

From Series 7, live streaming will be available via the internet and also E4 (edited with a 15 minute delay). However, Channel 4 and Endemol are planning a new subscription channel to launch exclusively for the series (currently codenamed Big Brother 777) which will focus on more uncut streaming. Due to new TV regulations the channel will be able to broadcast swearing and nudity during the day, as long as the channel remains under PIN protection to ensure that only adults can gain access. The channel will be enhanced with an 8 screen interactive service. Currently planned are 6 live video streams from the house (2 containing audio) including a stream which will focus exclusively on the shower area. The only time when the audio feeds will be cut are for libel or legal reasons. The service is currently being developed by BSkyB for Channel 4 and will be a stand alone subscription channel.

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Celebrity Big Brother

There have been three Celebrity Big Brother series featuring well-known names as housemates, with a proportion of the profits from eviction votes going to charity.

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Series 1 (March 2001)

In aid of Comic Relief six celebrities entered the Big Brother series 1 house for eight days in March 2001. As Comic Relief is shown by the BBC, this was a rare collaboration between the two TV channels. The contestants were:

The series is remembered for comedian Jack Dee's escape from the house - he evaded security for an hour before returning ("I got all the way to Stratford") - and Vanessa Feltz angrily scrawling words on the dining table, apparently feeling the pressure of constant surveillance.

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Series 2 (November 2002)

The second celebrity series lasted ten days, from November 20-30, 2002. Proceeds from viewer voting went to four different charities: Centrepoint, National Missing Persons Helpline, Rethink severe mental illness and Samaritans. The six contestants were:

Memorable moments include comedian Les Dennis moping around the house.

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Series 3 (January 2005)

The third series began on January 6, 2005, and ran until January 23, 2005. A percentage of phone vote funds went towards helping victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The contestants were:

On the fifth day a ninth celebrity entered the house:

This series features the oldest and youngest ever UK Big Brother contestants (discounting Teen Big Brother, see below): Jackie Stallone (82) and Kenzie (19).

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Series 4 (January 2006)

A fourth series of Celebrity Big Brother is planned for January 2006. The series will begin on 5th January and will run for three weeks until January 27th. The celebrity line-up includes;

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Teen Big Brother

A special version of Big Brother, featuring eight 18-year-old teenagers, was broadcast in October 2003 on Channel 4 and E4 as Teen Big Brother.

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Big Brother Panto

E4 and T4 broadcast the special Big Brother Panto series, bringing together selected members of the various Big Brother series to perform a pantomime of Cinderella during December 2004. The people who took part in the pantomime were:

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See also

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External links

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