Archive through July 30, 2003
TV ClubHouse: ARCHIVES: Big Brother USA 2003 General Discussions Part 1:
Miscellaneous Information for our UK Friends:
Archive through July 30, 2003
Laisey | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 11:31 am     I thought it would be nice to have a thread for questions about the show or TVCH boards or, for that matter, just to throw out some things our US/Canadian members think would be of interest. I'll start. I know of no one in the US who has a seating area in their bathroom. The time of day can be confusing since we have four time zones (Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific). The times shown on the boards are Pacific or, as we call it - BB time). When a question is asked such as what time is a certain event to be held, the answer will be given in BB time. If someone were to ask what time is the live TV show, the answer would be given with an actual time zone, such as 9:00 ET. |
Zachsmom | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 11:33 am     The HG are not a representation of what Americans are really like. |
Cp01_Wales | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 11:35 am     Yeah i know i am sure your not all like that the producers just need strong characters really. A few of them do seem to like themselves tho :p Especially Jun |
Ric_Munoz | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 11:39 am     Cp: A dear friend who lives in Leicester sent me an email saying a 5-hour BBUSA marathon was being planned. True? And, can we assume you all don't have to deal with any of the ghastly adverts that ruin the experience for us over here? |
Closetfan | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 11:40 am     1. Not all Americans are heavy drinkers. 2. Most Americans are friendly and do not 'call each other out' for petty crap like these HGs. |
Dipo | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 11:46 am     Ric, we do not get the adverts, but you experience the dreaded FOTH....Front of the House view whenever they sing or talk about someone who did not sign a release. |
Laisey | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 05:02 pm     The houseguests this year stay up very late, sleep late and take naps during the day. They usually go to bed around 2:00-3:00 am BB time, which would be 10:00-11:00 am your time. They normally get up between 10:00 am and noon, or 6:00-8:00 pm your time. There are live feed posts here to catch up on what happened while you're asleep and they are up. |
Jan | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 05:15 pm     There is NO audience participation in the BB USA show. A houseguest wins the right to be Head of Houshold (HOH)for a week. That person nominates two people for eviction. All houseguests (HG) except the HOH and the two nominees vote for which of the two to evict. Often the HOH tells everyone how to vote and surprisingly, often the HG's go along with it. There is a Veto competition. The winner of the Veto has the power (so we call it POV..power of veto) to take someone off the nomination block.If that happens the HOH nominates someone else (but cannot nominate the holder of the POV). HOH competition occurs following eviction on Wed night. Click on the following link to go to Ryn's thread which tells you what days different competitions occur and who has been HOH etc so far: Schedule |
Costacat | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 05:16 pm     These houseguest cuss a lot. Most of us don't cuss quite so often. |
Bohawkins | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 05:21 pm     The HG's are a typical cross cut section of what Americans are really like. Scary isn't it? |
Philamom | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 05:22 pm     And the majority of us aren't as thin as these people ... to be fair, in past BBs we have had a couple of "heftier" houseguests, but they were older men. |
Jan | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 05:23 pm     well not really..there are no gays or african americans in the house. Not so typical of the average big city America, is it? |
Bohawkins | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 05:29 pm     Amanda's father is a black man. What percentage of blood is enough to qualify? |
Wilsonatmd | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 05:36 pm     the way the final vote has been done has been different each season: BB1:The audience voted for the winner from the last 3 HG's. BB2:The 9 evicted HG's (one HG was DQ'd, and did not vote) voted for the winner from the remaining two HG's...each of the two HG's could remove one person from the vote. BB3:The 10 evicted HG's voted for the winner from the two remaining HG's. There was an audience vote, but would have only been used to break a tie. This season: Only the last seven evicted HG's will vote for the winner from the last 2 HG's. Those seven will be sequestered in another house and will get limited information from the main house. Specifically, they will not be able to see the still competing HG's Diary Room entries. This was done because last year, one of the two finalists trashed the other HG's in the Diary Room. The evicted HG's saw this, got angry, and that person lost in a 9-1 vote (the only vote she got was from her alliance partner who was the last person evicted before the final vote) |
Bastable | Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 06:52 pm     The house is located in Los Angeles, CA. It's actually just north of the hills of Hollywood, near the Burbank Airport, not too far from Universal Studios. Here is a map |
Costacat | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 06:09 am     Bump. |
Sasman | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 06:12 am     Bastable, if you go to the map and click on arial photo, you can actually see the house. |
Tissy | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 11:46 am     When do the hgs know who is being evicted? Is it on eviction night or do they know before hand, considering thats all they seem to talk about 90% of the time |
Wargod | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 12:07 pm     Well, they don't officially find out til eviction night, but I think other than last weeks where Jee, Robert, and Justin were suprised, most have known ahead of time who was voting for who and who'd be leaving. |
Sugarplum | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 01:54 pm     Great thread. Thanks! |
Grits | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 03:50 pm     I have a question for you UK folks. I've been watching a few of the final TV episodes of your shows that are posted on netnews. What I haven't figured out is what are the shows that are labeled UKBB4 - Little Brother. Are they just another variant by Endemol, or what? I definitely like the way they end the shows with live voting. |
Bastable | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:02 pm     Grits, do you have the link to those shows? I'd like to see some! |
Valleygirl | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:17 pm     the main show was UKBB4 or UKBB4 which appeared on E4 which is an interactive satellite station where we could watch 24/7 - with two feeds available. there was a highlight programme on channel 4 every evening at 22.00 for half an hour called Big Brother, PLUS another supplementary programme called Big Brother's Little Brother which was on every evening through the week at 18.00 - this programme would have on relatives or friends of the housemates, psychologists discussing behaviour and body language etc and audience phone-ins and competitions. there was a lot of controversy here with alleged biased editing on the highlights show putting certain contestants in a good light and others in a more negative way - FIXED ??? - we will never really know every week the audience had a chance to vote off one of the nominated housemates and at the end to pick the final winner. as the majority of people would only watch the highlights show obviously the so-called bias could well show up in the voting figures. CONTROVERSIAL - in the words of the great Jon Tickle. |
Grits | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 05:18 pm     Thank you valleygirl. That makes sense now. Bastable, netnews is aka usenet. Can't link to it as it is not part of the web. Try pasting news:alt.binaries.multimedia and see what happens. Many ISPs censor groups like that one. |
Sugarplum | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 11:15 am     Am I being stupid to ask what FOTH is? Sorry for the sheer dumbness people, but that concept wasn't used in bbuk (not that i know of anyway, if it was, then boy is my face red!). |
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