Star291999 | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 10:53 am     http://bigbrother.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds4465.html Big Brother USA is to air in the UK for the first time this year. The fourth series of the show begins on July 8 in the States, where it will broadcast on TV network CBS three times a week. Since our version of Big Brother is running until July 25, we won't pick up the US series until one day later, July 26. The three weekly shows will air the next day on E4. The channel will also broadcast live, round-the-clock footage from the BB USA house, but on a 24-hour time delay so that the main shows make sense. |
Star291999 | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 10:54 am     I found this and if it is true, I'm not sure how I feel about this at the moment. My first instinct is that it stinks, but I don't know. DK :p |
Star291999 | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 11:08 am     It's got to be true because I just found another article: http://breaking.examiner.ie/2003/06/26/story103978.html US Big Brother to be screened here 26/06/2003 - 2:46:23 pm Channel 4 bosses are to offer round-the-clock coverage of the US version of Big Brother on digital channel E4, it was announced today. The station will carry highlight shows and evictions from the American version of the reality series 24 hours after they are broadcast across the Atlantic. And it will stream action from the house “as live” 16 hours after it happens from July 26. It follows the success of screening Big Brother South Africa this week, which saw one million viewers tuning in. |
Deedee | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 12:04 pm     At least I know how I am going to keep up with BB while on vacation. Yipee this is great! Do you think my hotel will have this channel? |
Fabnsab | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 12:14 pm     Does anyone know if it will show in Germany? I am going to be so depressed if I have to miss it. I know I should be happy to be in a beautiful country but not when theres BB to be watched! |
Lurknomore | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 02:15 pm     Actually this is GREAT news...at least regarding the feeds (if this is true). Because if they are gettting the feeds late then that validates there WILL be feeds which, as you know, has been a concern of mine. Hope, but doubt, turnabout will be fair play. I'd love to see the UK one. Maybe if they ever get that all Reality TV channel off the ground we would get it. But I know a fair number of people and you wouldn't believe how little "American" the English speak...and it's a riot a few common words there are a tad off color here. We'd have a hard time figuring some of it out I'd bet |
Star291999 | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 03:50 pm     It's on Channel 4. Here is the link for the BB UK site. http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother/index.html Doesn't Germany have a BB house going on right now? DK :p |
Maris | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 03:50 pm     What I am thinking is that this ties in with the twist as well. If they are starting to air the US big brother a day after the UK big brother ends, could the twist be that the winner of UK big brother goes to the US big brother house and has a chance to win both???? Would that be delicious.......... Could you imagine the reaction of the US HGs. |
Kitt | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 05:05 pm     The annoying thing is we have to pay for the live feeds, but they'll get them free, even if they start three weeks late!! That E4 channel is a cable channel that comes with the usual satellite/cable packages, so it's possible a bigger hotel will have it Deedee. |
Therlin | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 05:43 pm     This may mean that even ASP thinks that this season is going to kick butt. |
Monkeyboy | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 06:06 pm     Hey i like that idea, Maris. Wish I thought of it! jk. |
Tink_A_Belle | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 01:48 pm     I'm from California at the moment in France watching BB-UK on our satelite. I can't wait for BB-USA to start. I think the reason Channel4 decided to air BB-USA was because this BB-UK is so utterly boring and dull that they hope to make up. Really, I don't know what they were thinking when casting these people. I have never seen such a dull group put together. None of the is in the house to win or to play the game. *sigh* Thank God for the decision to air BB-USA! ;-) |
Crossfire | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 02:07 pm     Oh man, I could die. I've mentioned more than once around here, that I want the feeds 24/7 on a cable channel. Dang...I am Green with envy. |
R151996 | Friday, July 04, 2003 - 12:39 am     There may be one huge positive for RealOne live feed viewers with E4 airing the live feeds (although on a delayed basis) after UK BB ends. E4 viewers will not tolerate long stretches of the front of the house with theme music. UK BB dips the sound as needed without changing the video and occasionally switches video to either a garden or chicken coop shot. The audio dips or video switches usually are for only a few seconds with maybe a three to five minute maximum. Most of the time either audio or video is still available with simultaneous audio and video switches not too common. Hopefully the UK Big Brother production team has passed along a few live feed pointers to Shapiro and Company. |
Britchick | Friday, July 04, 2003 - 04:21 am     Glad that this news has reached here already! I was over the moon when I first read it, because what Tink says is true - UK BB this year is quite dull. Getting better now but it is a bit late in the game to save it, I think. I was so excited at the thought of watching US BB. However, I don't have cable/satellite so I can't watch E4 (the channel showing US BB live feeds). Sigh. I'm moving house next month, so maybe I'll be able to get cable in my new house and catch the end of US BB. All the more motivation to spend time reading the updates posted here, I guess |
Laisey | Friday, July 04, 2003 - 05:40 am     Is anyone familiar with any BB-UK fan sites with message boards? If so, could someone post a link. I'd like to read what the British fans think of AS's interpretation of the BB concept. |
Tink_A_Belle | Friday, July 04, 2003 - 01:54 pm     Best site I think is http://bigbrother.digitalspy.co.uk/ It got all the updates, first with news and also has a forum. |
Laisey | Friday, July 04, 2003 - 01:58 pm     Thanks. I'm looking forward to seeing what they think of AS's Twist. |
Laisey | Friday, July 04, 2003 - 02:03 pm     WOW - I went to bookmark the site and saw where they had a bomb scare at the studio where the house is. Hope AS doesn't know about it and get any ideas. |
R151996 | Friday, July 04, 2003 - 02:28 pm     Tonight's UK live eviction has been postponed to Saturday. The HMs have been evacuated from the house to another building at the Elstree studio complex. |
Dipo | Friday, July 04, 2003 - 02:30 pm     R151996, did they say much more in the article?? I could get it to load, when I was checking out the site. |
Wilsonatmd | Friday, July 04, 2003 - 03:16 pm     also, they are doing the HoH this week in UK.... http://bigbrother.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds4667.html |
Demeter | Friday, July 04, 2003 - 04:12 pm     If we have Superpass in the US, can we access the British livestreams? IF so, how? |
R151996 | Friday, July 04, 2003 - 04:40 pm     Here's the latest update from Digital Spy just after 4:30 pm USBB time. UPDATED: Housemates Evacuated Day 43, 12.23am By Mark Newby A suspicious package has been found at Elstree Studios where Big Brother is set. At around 8pm, the E4 live feeds switched to a shot of the garden, and sound was cut. It has since become clear that the reason for this was that a package, believed to contain an explosive device of some description, was found outside of the George Lucas stage, which not only holds all of the sound desks and vision mixers for Big Brother, but also contains the stages for both Big Brother and Big Brother's Little Brother. An official spokeswoman for the series stated that the housemates "have been evacuated to a building at the far end of [Elstree Studios]"; a member of the eviction audience later contacted us to reveal that the housemates were being kept in a white building at the far end of the complex. At 9:32pm, an announcement was made on Channel 4 by the continuity announcer that the eviction show would go ahead at 10pm, but a later announcement revealed that the programme had been "postponed". In other news relating to tonights developments, the police have told press members that they have "set up a 200m cordon around a box which they believed to contain an explosive substance". The eviction audience were also told to leave the complex due to "technical difficulties". Update - 10:00pm: Channel 4 have now announced that the eviction night will commence tomorrow night at 9pm. Update - 10:11pm: Channel 4 have announced that the voting lines will remain open; probably to avoid any information falling into prying hands. Update - 12:22am: The Elstree complex area has now been declared safe after it was revealed that the suspicious box contained only electrial equipment, with the sniffer dog reacting to pyrotechnic residue; the Big Brother house has since been combed by policemen and members of the show's production team. |
R151996 | Friday, July 04, 2003 - 05:10 pm     The UK HMs just returned to the house through the fire exit door in the blue bedroom. All seemed in good spirits. From DS:BB reports they were guarded with a camera present and were given CDs to listen to while the compound was secured. |