With the addition of more shows (finals now 9/24), how will BB fill the last weeks?
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TV ClubHouse: ARCHIVES: Big Brother USA 2003 General Discussions Part 1: With the addition of more shows (finals now 9/24), how will BB fill the last weeks?

Surreal_Badger

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 10:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Last week, BB announced that the final episode would be September 24 (not the 17th as originally planned).

According to my calculations, the # of houseguests will be as followed:

after 9/3 eviction: 4 hgs left
after 9/10: 3 hgs left
after 9/17: 2 hgs left

Now, in the past, BB hasn't spent a whole week on the last two in the house. In fact, from the final 3 to the final episode has usually occurred in 3 (or so) shows, not stretched out over two weeks.

So. . . any speculation on how BB will plan the hgs' final weeks. Will there be another "twist"? And if so, what are folks' thoughts on what it might be? (returning hgs, no eviction, . . . )

Bracken

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 10:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
After 9/17, I think those extra two shows they added will be just that, the regularly scheduled shows between the final HOH comp on 9/17 and goodbye to number three. Of course if it is an endurance test, it may run over the 9/17 live show and we get results of third player eviction on the Fri/Sat show. They could play out the final HOH contest over the very last week keeping all three there until the third is bounced on the final show, too. Making HOH contest a three parter and do all live shows the final week or let live feed watchers see the extended HOH competitions (finally).

If they have a non-endurance competition for final HOH, then they have the Friday/Saturday show plus the Tuesday. Finale on Wednesday, September 24.

I'm betting one of the shows during the finale week will feature the Jury House and the other may be a recap of the entire season. This is just a guess. At least they have options with the Jury House to give use something new during the last week when the BB house becomes oh so boring, unless, of course they keep three in until the finale with an extended HOH contest.

This makes more sense to me as I doubt they would send the third person off to the jury house. They will probably be bringing back the jurors a day or two in advance of the final show anyway.

Then again, who knows, this is BB after all, lol.

Watcher

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 11:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Would be funny if they would bring all the sequestered HG's back into the BB House to live for the last week. That would really break the boredom! lol

Gina8642

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 11:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't think they will increase the amount of 'live' shows. Because live shows are just borring when extended past what the already show.

I think there will be a bunch of reflection (past stuff) scenes, etc. And, the last two HGs will have to live in that house for a full week, just the two of them. They didn't do that before because they didn't need to do it. If they need to, they will. I imagine the live feeds will be deadly dull, but even so, they can still scrape together plenty of footage to make two more entertaining TV eps.

Sunshyne4u

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 11:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I agee with Watcher....I feel the sequester hgs will come back in.

The last minute lobbying and cohersing for That Final vote would be amazing to watch. Especially if Ali and Jun made it to the end.

Seanflynn2003

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 11:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe Allison would volunteer to cook

Scorpiomoon

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 11:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
During and after 9/11, they extended BB2 for a week. (If I remember correctly.) Does anyone remember what they did during those extra shows? I can't remember. Wasn't one a "best of BB2" kind of show?

Duncan

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 12:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL - maybe they will do like in TAR and have a 'non-elimination' round. They will go thru the vote, announce the results, and then say "But I have good news. This is one of one prearranged non-eliminations rounds during the show".

Could you just imagine the looks on their faces? :)

Wilsonatmd

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 12:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's only two extra episodes, one on Friday, and one the following Wednesday. It's gonna make it intersting but I think will happen is that the evicition from three to two won't happen until that Friday, probably live. This way, they're not keeping the final two in for a whole week. But Watcher's idea is good as well....put everyone in the jury back in from that Friday till the vote.

Justareader

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 12:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Duncan - you know that thought made me think of something: maybe the will say that since Jun got to go to the VMA's it was really a luxury and therefore, her noms will be null and that everyone in the house can compete for HOH....whooo wee can you imagine the HG's reaction to that!!!? and then roberts reaction if Jee were to win HOH again!! Oh my, the gloating and celebrations for the first 5 days and then the complaining and dejection the last 2 days of his reign... and this would allow for the extra show times.........

Tweety

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 12:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Scorpiomoon, as I recall during 9/11 Big Brother was not aired - it was non-stop news coverage.

Bronxie

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 12:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The final few of BB 2 had voltile Nicole and
delightfully evil Dr. Will to enertain us (and each other)....this distasteful group of boring people can only get worse. Without Ali we'll hava dull but polite conversations....Robert, keeping to himself,Jun, cooking, and Erika playing house mother, dishing up tender, loving care. Mr. Shapiro is too smart to allow that to occcur. Even without including two additional weeks, this disdainful group needs an infusion of .... something. Perhaps there is a "mole" among them..
That could easily be Erika, but just suppose it was Robert? Both of their backgrounds are questionable and suspect..known only to each other Anyway, Julie announces that there IS a Mole among them and they must discover the guilty houseguest. That would also keep us awake a little longer.

Gina8642

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 12:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think during 9/11 the show went pretty much off as scheduled. I remember it as my one refuge for a place to go where I could think about less important things. At least one show was never aired, but they posted it in clips on CBS's website, so most anyone with a decent computer could see it.

It was VERY slow for the HGs during this time and they (the BB staff) kept them much busier than at the end of BB3. BB2 got puzzles, and movie night etc. Perhaps the final two this year will get a few distractions as well. There really is no 'game' left to play once there are only two - but to make the last show 'live' CBS will need to keep them cooped up for quite awhile.

Jazzzy

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 01:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
CBS just removed the video's that weren't shown due to 9-11, I know I saw the first 4 and then BAMMMMM the linked didn't work, this was about 2 months before BB4 started.


I think the filler will be the best of BB4, & the 'best of' the last 3 remaining HG's

Beruthiel

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 03:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I remember doing late night LFPs that year, and while Will and Nicole were alone in the house they had movies non-stop every night. The feeds were on the backyard, and all we could hear were the faint sounds of the movies. Nicole would nip out every now and then for a cigarette. It was as tedious for them as it was for us, and if this extra time isn't filled with something interesting, BB will get no advantage from it at all.

Catchme

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 03:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe they will do a reunion show, ala "Survivor" - that would take up one show?

Jpgramma

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 04:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
last year:

9/5 : Roddy evicted leaving 5 HGs. Jason won HOH

9/12: Marci out. leaving 4 Hgs. Dani won HOH
9/14: Amy/Lisa nominated
9/18: Amy/Jason set sail

9/19: Amy evicted leaving 3 HGs. Round 1 of HOH (hang onto key in pool endurance)-Lisa won

9/21: Round 2 of HOH : Jason and Danielle have seven minutes to complete six Household tasks. Jason wins Round 2.
9/21: Round 3 of HOH : Lisa & Jason (winners of rounds 1 & 2) have to guess which of the 3 remaining HGs were described by the evicted HGs in one word descriptions. Lisa wins. Jason is evicted.

9/25: Final vote show. All evicted HGs return for final vote.

perhaps they'll just drag the final HOH comp out longer. More days/shows between each round?

Seamonkey

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 04:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Personally I think two extra shows is unwise, unless they switch over to feeds from the sequester house where we get to hear them deliberate..

But they also would be fairly predictable.

C1mag

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 04:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
sneaking in for a second.... Pssssst... Has anyone thought that maybe the evicted house guests will come back to the house and stay that last week and "observe" and exact revenge on the final two on a daily basis? Now ya gotta admit that watching Jun and Ali suck up to the evicted on a daily basis and putting each other down if they were the last two would be too fun to watch. The evicted would make life HELL for those two every day before they actually voted. Then on the final show each evicted house guest goes into the DR live and votes for the person who they think should get the money one by one without revealing the actual vote or how they voted until Julie announces it. What do ya think?

Toolhound

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 04:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How about when it is down to the final 2 they each get to pick 1 person from the sequestered people to come back. That would make it a little more stategic. For example if Ali is in the final 2 she might pick Nate to return so she could sway his vote back to her. Of course who ever they pick would be mad for making them return from the beach house so it would be hard to sway them.

Surreal_Badger

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 07:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
C1mag, I think that's a fabulous idea. I'd love to see the look on the faces of the hg's when they open the door for the third-to-last hg to leave, and instead find Dana, Nate, etc etc on the doorstep, ready to pile back in.

Gina8642

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 09:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Did they start earlier this year? They have fewer HGs now than last year did on this date.

Cliotheleo

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 09:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm gonna echo Catchme's idea and vote for a reunion show, kind of like what they do on the Bachelor. I'd like to see more time devoted to the evicted HGs than what's been done in the past.

In other words..........

MORE DAVE! MORE DAVE! MORE DAVE! MORE DAVE! :)

Cliotheleo

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 09:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gina, I don't think they started earlier, it's always the day after the 4th or something like that, but I think Scott's departure is throwing everything off.

Eeyoreslament

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 10:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Does anyone think there will be a show devoted to the jury coming back (a la Survivor) and they get to ask each finalist questions to "influence" their vote. Sort of like a "swing the jury in your favour" show. This show would try to be interesting, in that past guests could bring up old dirty laundry questions, and give us some possible drama.

Anyways, I think Big Brother will have a show or two along those lines, where the finalists are asked questions by the jury. Hey, maybe they could have one show per finalist, and they would be in the hotseat for a whole hour. And whoever went frst isn't allowed to talk to the other one til the end.

Just me coming up with grand ideas for drama that I will never see....

Gadzooks

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 11:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The Emmy Awards are on September 21st and I think they will send the remaining houseguests to the show and air the whole thing. If it were my decision I would send them to Paradise Hotel for one night. I'd like to see evil Amy deal with Ali. Yikes!!!

Kalihiwahine

Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 11:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Noticed in the tv guide listing for Friday Sept 12, 7pm shows a CSI repeat scheduled instead of Big Brother ... not showing it on Saturday either for the missed Friday show

Surreal_Badger

Thursday, September 04, 2003 - 08:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
it still seems to me like there are more bb shows scheduled than there are hgs to eliminate or "regularly scheduled" events to occur. even with the addition of a "greatest hits" episode, i'm thinking arnold and co must have some twist up their sleeve. (i use the term twist lightly)

Here are the shows left, along with my best guess as what might happen each night:
friday, september 4th -- nominations (?), food comp, america's choice
tuesday, september 9th -- nominations (if not on friday), POV
wednesday, september 10th -- eviction (alison goes), HOH (? -- perhaps just part of it)
(friday, september 12th - no show)
tuesday, september 16th -- rest of HOH, eviction
wednesday, september 17th -- ?
friday, september 19th -- ?
tuesday, september 23rd -- best of bb4 (?)
finale - wednesday, september 24th -- reunion with all hgs, final vote

as always, i'm sure the folks on tvch are going to be more creative in their speculations than what will really occur. any thoughts?

Stingerman

Thursday, September 04, 2003 - 08:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When they get down to the final 2 it would be fun to see the jury house compete for a good prize, say a new car or 10 grand.

R151996

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 04:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The final HOH is a 3-part competition. It will start on the September 10 eviction show and may or may not be an endurance comp (2 years ago it wasn't endurance). With no September 12 show, Part 2 will be shown on the September 16 show, with the final part live immediately before the September 17 eviction down to two.

That leaves only the September 19 episode and September 24 finale--no show September 23.