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Ryn

Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 10:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, one more shameless plug - lol....

I created the Sleep Cam as well as the FOTH cam simulations during BB2 - if you have only loaded the FOTH cam, go to this page and scroll down and try the sleep cam, it will remind you of what more of our mornings were (and will be) full of when BB4 starts :) - then in the afternoon fire up the FOTH cam simulator to remember the afternoons :)

http://www.geocities.com/ryn1970/Fdcam/

Ericka1012

Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 10:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, OK I admit it...I watched both the simulations!!! I love them!!! I had to watch them more than once!!!

And finally I'll put my name on the list I'm keeping when it comes time for the B****ing to begin when CBS forces us to watch it!!!

Ericka slinks back in her corner...trying to keep from watching Ryan's simulations again but mumbling all the way..."Please start BB....PLEASE!!!"

Wilsonatmd

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 05:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
It's official....from Yahoo! No start date nor number of eps per week given right now....


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CBS Greenlights Fourth Season of 'Big Brother'
Friday February 21 2:53 AM ET


CBS has given the go-ahead to a fourth season of the voyeuristic reality TV hit "Big Brother," inking a deal with Arnold Shapiro and Allison Grodner to stay on as executive producers and show runners.

Casting on "Big Brother 4" will begin in mid-March, though producers already have received roughly 2000 videotapes from potential contestants.

The series, co-produced by Endemol USA, will air this summer. CBS is still mulling how many times per week the show will air and when it will debut.

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The deal with Shapiro and Grodner locks them in for two more seasons, though the second year is contingent on the series getting renewed for summer 2004. "Early Show" co-anchor Julie Chen is expected to return as host.

"('Big Brother') has become a huge franchise for us," said CBS alternative programming guru Ghen Maynard. "The show's a blast, and it's just so cool how many twists and turns you can have on a show where things happened just a day or two (before air time.)"

Shapiro said he and Grodner couldn't imagine not coming back as producers of "Big Brother."

"We were honored that CBS asked us to do it," he said. "And we will be coming up with new twists and turns in the game to leep it fresh and exciting and unpredictable."

Grodner added that the basic format of the show would remain the same -- a group of strangers is confined to the inside of a house for a couple of months, deprived of contact with the outside world, while cameras and microphones record their every move 24 hours a day. Every week, a different "house guest" is kicked out, with the last one left in the house winning a cash jackpot.

"It's not about messing with the format," she said. "The challenge will be mixing it up yet again with something that's unexpected. It's a balancing act."

"Big Brother" has been one of CBS's chief summer tentpoles the past two seasons, adding audience every year it's been on. The series frequently won its time slot in the key demographic of adults 18 to 49 last summer.

While this summer promises to be the most competitive warm-weather season ever for broadcast TV -- with dozens of new and returning reality formats set to bow --- Grodner believes "BB4" will be able to compete.

"We had a steady audience that grew all last summer, so I think people will be looking for it," she said.

Shapiro and Grodner have a busy development slate in the works as well as two new reality shows set to premiere in the coming weeks.

"Family Business," which follows a family-run adult-entertainment dynasty, premieres Saturday night on Showtime before settling into its regular Friday slot. And next month, the Shapiro/Grodner-produced reality series "The Family" begins a multiweek run on ABC.

Theowl

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 10:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
4 MONTHS PLUS!!!! HOOO HOOOO!!!!

Official countdown to start when we get a date!! I can't WAIT!!!! HOOO HOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!

Grannyg

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 12:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Owl, so glad to see you are here and on the ball!! I really hope as soon as they give a date you start the countdown!! (Hope Spirit is having a very good day!!)

Bastable

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 08:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
So excited so excited so excited.

But not about Arnie. FOTH, here I come!

Deedee

Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 11:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?30281

another article confirming Big Brother 4. No new info in the article other than

"The network has formally ordered the fourth edition of the reality series, according to news reports."

Grooch

Monday, February 24, 2003 - 11:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
CBS Greenlights Fourth Season of 'Big Brother'
Fri Feb 21, 2:54 AM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo!


By Josef Adalian

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - CBS has given the go-ahead to a fourth season of the voyeuristic reality TV hit "Big Brother," inking a deal with Arnold Shapiro and Allison Grodner to stay on as executive producers and show runners.



Casting on "Big Brother 4" will begin in mid-March, though producers already have received roughly 2000 videotapes from potential contestants.


The series, co-produced by Endemol USA, will air this summer. CBS is still mulling how many times per week the show will air and when it will debut.


The deal with Shapiro and Grodner locks them in for two more seasons, though the second year is contingent on the series getting renewed for summer 2004. "Early Show" co-anchor Julie Chen is expected to return as host.


"('Big Brother') has become a huge franchise for us," said CBS alternative programming guru Ghen Maynard. "The show's a blast, and it's just so cool how many twists and turns you can have on a show where things happened just a day or two (before air time.)"


Shapiro said he and Grodner couldn't imagine not coming back as producers of "Big Brother."


"We were honored that CBS asked us to do it," he said. "And we will be coming up with new twists and turns in the game to leep it fresh and exciting and unpredictable."


Grodner added that the basic format of the show would remain the same -- a group of strangers is confined to the inside of a house for a couple of months, deprived of contact with the outside world, while cameras and microphones record their every move 24 hours a day. Every week, a different "house guest" is kicked out, with the last one left in the house winning a cash jackpot.


"It's not about messing with the format," she said. "The challenge will be mixing it up yet again with something that's unexpected. It's a balancing act."


"Big Brother" has been one of CBS's chief summer tentpoles the past two seasons, adding audience every year it's been on. The series frequently won its time slot in the key demographic of adults 18 to 49 last summer.


While this summer promises to be the most competitive warm-weather season ever for broadcast TV -- with dozens of new and returning reality formats set to bow --- Grodner believes "BB4" will be able to compete.


"We had a steady audience that grew all last summer, so I think people will be looking for it," she said.


Shapiro and Grodner have a busy development slate in the works as well as two new reality shows set to premiere in the coming weeks.


"Family Business," which follows a family-run adult-entertainment dynasty, premieres Saturday night on Showtime before settling into its regular Friday slot. And next month, the Shapiro/Grodner-produced reality series "The Family" begins a multiweek run on ABC.


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Whit4you

Friday, March 14, 2003 - 10:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ryn!!! That sleep cam is adorable, great job. I'm keeping it up tonight. I remember nights when I was lonely it was fun feeling like I wasn't sleeping alone cause of hearing those guys snore. :)

http://www.geocities.com/ryn1970/Fdcam/sleepcam.html

Whit4you

Friday, March 14, 2003 - 10:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm missing BB so much I'm thinking about "Live feed posting" the goings on at the TVCH :) Guessing I'd have to leave out the activities in the Ozzie thread or my post would get FOTH'd lol

It would go something like this:



In the library we have Twig, Ebok and the gang about to vote on a new book for the TVCH Book club. First vote is in with "Clan of the cave bear" ... which book will be the ultimate winner?

(and so on and so forth....)

Twiggyish

Friday, March 14, 2003 - 01:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL! Whit.

I love this show, but it takes a while to recover from it. It's a roller coaster for sure!

Twinkie

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 02:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Let's get back to BB 2003. Please start already!

I need my BB fix!! Any word yet on what the Live Feeds will cost this year??

Sherbabe

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 05:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
right now eastern time...i am watching this game show called cheaters on pax tv.

there is a contestant named josh. looks and sounds exactly like josh from BB1

anybody else see this

Sherbabe

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 08:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
wow, 2 in a row for me.
Lisa Donahue was on Howard Stern show tonight. She is plugging a photo lay out she did for Ramp Magazine.
She said she is not dating anyone right now and IMO, really brushed off her relationship with Eric. Barely acknowledged it at all.
Really wish a real person had won it all, instead of a hand picked model type who fit the roll of HG
most likely to spend the summer in a thong on TV.

Ryn

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 05:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Twinkie - Real player still has the same packages I think - about $10 a month, I would assume thats what it will run.

Pagal

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 05:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw Lisa in a commercial for an SUV. Thought it looked like her but wasn't sure so I did an instant replay (thank goodness for TiVo!). It was definitely her.

Sunshinemiss

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 12:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sherbabe, that WAS Josh from BB1. No doubt about it.. identified himself by name, so...

Is it July 4th weekend yet? (Traditional start time for BB) I sooo miss it... no other reality show will do.

Riviere

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 09:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Recently saw Gerry (the h.s. teacher) on game show Cheaters, he lost..

Ryn

Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 01:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok...... Couple of links for those that want to wander down memory lane...

I have posted the TVCH archives from BB1 & BB2 on my site AND all of the Images from the "Live Feeds" area of BB3 (800+ pictures).

go to ilovereality.com and then to the BB Content page.

Bastable

Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 09:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ryn, you're the best. It's very interesting looking at those archives. How strange it makes me feel--how disposible our words suddenly feel. I love looking through them.

Queenfish

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 05:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ryn, that's cool. Thanks

Bastable

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 08:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Update...CBS is now beginning to solicit advertisers for BB4 this summer.

Bunny

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 08:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Looking for advertisers, you say? They can't do any better than the Energizer Bunny, right, Rabbit? Unless it's more phone ads starring Carrot Top.

Ryn

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 01:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
For now I am going with a July 5th premire date - its a Saturday and BBII started on a Saturday. So until I hear different its 101 days until BBIV.

I have created the BB IV countdown timer (flash) - its on my website. Feel free to download it and send it to all your friends - lol.

Ericka1012

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 03:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, I'm off the wagon again...I had to see it, I had to hear it...I needed a fix...the clinic didn't work...I need my FOH fix...I need my fix of hearing breathing of sleeping HG...I NEED BB...NOW...I have Money, I'll Cook them Dinner, I'll give them my first Born...101 days NOT FAIR... cruel and unusual punishment, I say