If you really need more big brother., search the world
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If you really need more big brother., search the world
Turgon | Friday, September 27, 2002 - 10:18 am     hehe thought this would be fun for some people, endemol's worldwide big brother site http://www.endemol.com/interactive/formats_big_brother.jsp there are links to BB sites from most of the countries that are active right now, South Africa is in the closing weeks. so if you reaaly need a fix http://www.bigbrothersa.com/ even though you dont get to see the show its still fun to look in on the happening elsewhere. i wish there was a way to get endemol usa to release the other versions from all other the world in dubbed english, i think they would be surprised by the amount of intrest there is. |
Turgon | Friday, September 27, 2002 - 10:53 am     one more thing guys, as far as i can see the feeds are free all you have to do is register as a member and poof., live video feeds from the BB house in South Africa. damn i love the internet, hehe |
Countrymeadow | Friday, September 27, 2002 - 02:46 pm     I registered at that site, however when I click on the live feeds my Windows Media comes up and I get an error message saying it's an unknown format. GRRRrrrrr |
Turgon | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 06:36 am     same here man im not quite sure what the deal is , i posted in the tech forum maybe someone will answer. heheh are we sad er what., looks like their BB was pretty good this year i back tracked and read alittle bit. like right now they are having to repair a car as a task., hehheh our hg's wouldnt have stood a chance. |
Spunky | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 09:20 am     http://www.bigbrotherworld.tv/ this is a better site which has links of ongoing BB around the world. Italy should start soon. |
Turgon | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 09:38 am     man our BB is horrible compared to the rest of the world. check out some of the challenges the South Africa people had to do., and most are week long challenges, second week they had to camp out back all week., third week at one point they had to be ready at any time 24/7 to get dressed within 45 seconds and get to the dance floor they had to build and dance for just the duration of the song. the fourth week BB chained groups of 3 hg's together and they had to stay like that for 3 days and 2 nights with exeptions of course for bathroom and shower breaks, hahah. |
Bernie | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 06:01 pm     Thanks for the links, Spunky and Turgon-now I'll never have a life, LOL! (But really, thanks :-)) |
Watcher | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 07:49 pm     Has anyone been able to see any of the SA live feeds? Oh, never mind! I need to focus on my real life for awhile now. lol At least until BB4 USA.....or Celebrity BB....or...oh, well, there's always *something to interrupt.  |
Breezy | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 07:59 pm     Thanks for the great sites!!! |
Mags3 | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 08:14 pm     You know, I keep popping in here every day hoping and dreaming a BB house would be up and running. Damn if I didn't come in tonight and find one! YAY Dreams do come true, dreams do come true!! |
Mags3 | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 08:18 pm     Oh, btw..... Thanks! |
Misslibra | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 10:13 pm     I tried to take a look at the south african feeds but couldn't even get on the home page. I take that back, I got on the home site once but haven't been able to enter it since. I don't understand what the problem could be. |
Oregonfire | Monday, September 30, 2002 - 10:36 pm     Thanks for the link! I glanced at the BB Sweden site--the winner looks a bit like Bjork. <Must...break...free....must have....own....life!> |
Espen | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 07:26 am     For people who like Big Brother, Survivor *and* American Idol, apparently BBC (yes, the british one!) is doing their own blend, produced by Endemol, called "Fame Acadamy".. See this link for details.. http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2002/sep02/sep30/2_tues/news4tuesday.html |
Turgon | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 08:03 am     ok as far as the south africa thing goes all you have to do is register than you get access to the boards and feeds and what not. however feeds dont work for us (great) i posted in the tech forum and people started answering but none of them were admins so maybe after he shows up he might be able to help us out. they only have like 2 weeks left anyway i just thought it would be cool to be able to eavesdrop on a BB in another country. one good thing about South Africa is their website, theres tons of info and is updated several times daily which in nice. they actually even listen to what the hg's are talking about and post summaries of their conversations which we never ever get. looks like their BB was good this year, since it was the second one they kinda went crazy with it. if you go into the image gallery they have all kinds of pics and some of eviction nights. theres a door from inside the house that leads right out to a stage where all the people gather to watch and on top of that all the hg's get to come out for just a sec to say goodbye to the evicted and wave to the fans. it seems like shapiro keeps to tight a wrap on our show, in south africa after their evicted they send them to a resort and fans show up and they just have a big ol party. wow must be nice., after our BB the hg's kinda dissappear off the planet |
Turgon | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 09:31 am     heres a link to an image of the outdoor studio the hg's go to when they are evicted., man look at that place, very rad. http://www.bigbrothersa.com/world/tour/Studio/StudioTour.asp |
Turgon | Tuesday, October 08, 2002 - 09:50 am     bump, only 5 days left in SA, another BB comes to a close |
Countrymeadow | Wednesday, October 09, 2002 - 10:17 pm     I can't get anything on that site. I did register at one time but almost no graphics come up. I'm not so addicted to BB reality that i'm not sleeping at night because of it.....lol I did manage to see the tour. Did anyone notice how similar the layouts are to the USA BB ? However, the USA BB site is a disgrace compared to the South Africa one. Did you notice the huge side by side refrigerator and how tastefully and expensively it was decorated? I understand that our BB house is decorated compliments of Pier One. LOL!! Actually, in BB2 last year, the green chair in the HOH room was in my living room as well. Yep, bought at Pier 1. Shapiro needs to spend some bucks next year and make it a little more eye appealing. Cha right....like that's gonna happen |
Beruthiel | Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 08:20 am     Before that, it had Ikea stuff, but the HGs broke the chairs! I guess Pier One is a step up from Ikea, according to AS, LOL! |
Turgon | Friday, October 11, 2002 - 07:01 am     BTW I found out through an admin that feeds are free and live for only those in SA, oh well. But Country meadow is right they're site is so extensive that you can get a great feel for whats going on in the house. Ive been following their BB for like 3 weeks now and its been pretty decent. plus BB is alot meaner, heheh. 2 warnings and they are out of the house, they can fail challenges for mic violations. (they still do weekly challenges) and just the other day Richard one of the hg's called BB a wanker so they made him clean all the windows in the house and do the dishes. lol. BB SA does another thing that i think is a great idea. once the BB team narrowes down the perspective hg's to like 30 er so they all hang out at a ranch until they receive enough votes from the public to be allowed into the house, 2 at a time over a week. so half the people picked for the show dont even make it into the house. Even the BB producers have no control over who enters the house. Another thing worth mentioning is the fact that one of the women voted into the house found out 2 days later she was pregnant, and left the house on her on accord saying "it was best for the baby." that must have been an insane thing to go through. the BB in SA is what its supposed to be the hg's against BB. while trying to be yourself and hope the public likes you. |
Turgon | Monday, October 14, 2002 - 09:31 am     Richard wins BB2 SA during a 2 hour finale, see they still get 2 hours what about us. well that kept me busy for a few weeks now what., heh. Their finale was kinda cheesy though, they went way over the top with big name bands and dancers and thw whole 9. SHAPIRO TAKE SOME NOTES |
Ryn | Friday, October 18, 2002 - 06:40 am     You can load the BB2 FOTH simulation I made and leave it runnin gon your PC - it will seem like BB has never ended ;) http://geocities.com/ryn1970/Fdcam/ |
Justin42 | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 01:26 am     Slightly unrelated, but did anyone watch Protagonistas earlier in the year on Telemundo (in the US)? I don't really speak Spanish (I have 2 years of high school Spanish, I can get by in an absolute emergency but it's not pretty) but was flipping around one day and thought it was in the BB house, so I watched and got totally sucked in! It sounds like it's what the "Fame Academy" show is based on, as they were locked in a house while getting show-biz training (Singing, dancing, acting), with the winner being given a role on a telenovela. Like I said, my Spanish is horrible, but I was absolutely sucked into the show-- it had the general feel of BB1US. I am really hoping for a second season! |
Turgon | Monday, October 21, 2002 - 12:49 pm     heheh ryn., that worked for about 2 days than i was like oh wait, south africa. i have problems |
Ryn | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 02:57 pm     Lol - well it was worth a try ;) |
Pamy | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 04:06 pm     Boogie, Chiara, Will, and other reality contestants were on a talk show yesterday. Boogie said that he was all an act and just did the show for publicity for Belly. He also said the engagement thing was a hoax, he did it to steal some more spotlight! He said Krista got the ring from a friend of hers and agreed to be part of it. He also said he and Chiara were dating, he and Will were opening a new bar soon, and Will was opening a med clinic in LA. |
Therlin | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 08:12 pm     I'm bilingual so I've been following the Big Brother 4 Spain feeds. They are free. And their house is a 2 level house! Pretty cool place. One person walked out after 4 days and they brought in an alternate. |
Moondance | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 08:34 pm     Oh cool Therlin... so way did they walk out? |
Moondance | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 08:45 pm     way - why... you know what I mean |
Therlin | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 09:51 pm     I arrived after the fact, but this is what I gathered. She was older than the rest of the HGs (sounds familiar?) and realized that she had made a mistake by entering the house. She said that she wanted to go back to her husband and everyday life. She missed all that too much. There was also an argument about a meal that was cooked, but I never heard the whole story. The replacement is a younger female. |
Therlin | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 09:53 pm     Oh! And they allow music in the house! In fact, they seem to have a radio booth in there and the HGs were taking turns DJing. I haven't quite understood that part of the show yet. And you hear the producers telling them to put their mics on, etc. No FOTH or other ways to censor the free feeds. |
Misslibra | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 11:56 am     Have anyone saw any of the Hungarians. On their BB anything goes. They can sing, have music and sex, where they showed EVERYTHING!! And Big Brother celebrated one of the girls b'day by having two hunky males strippers strip and dance for her. And I do mean they took off everything! I'm still in shock by some of the things they have done. The American BB would be very boring to them compared to the stuff they do. I'll have to check out Spain. |
Therlin | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 01:35 pm     I figured out what the deal with the radio booth is. It looks like they have signed a partnership with a music-streaming company on the web and the HGs are in charge of one of the channels. I was also browsing the website and seeing some of the videos they have and they have several videos of the producers explaining games, etc to the HGs. That's the point of the videos "listen to the producers explaining the game to the HGs" |
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