http://www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother6/


First off, there are two people in the house who have Pearl Jam listed in their bands.

Secondly, I can already tell that my favorite person in the house will probably be Sarah (22, from chicago, pearl jam listed, etc)


Times shown:

Tuesday 9pm ET/PT
Thursday 8pm ET/PT
Saturday 8pm ET/PT

It starts next thursday, July 7th

Does anyone still watch this? The last season over here had hardly any viewers.

was it the american version? cause i believe they also run one in some other countries as well.

No, it was the Norwegian one.

well, apparently people enjoy this show over here. i would assume it has decent ratings for being a summer show.

I'll let you enjoy it, I just don't see why these shows are popular, and why anyone wanna use of their time to watch it.

this show is a guilty pleasure from time to time

shit jim i had completely forgotten about this show. one of my summer favorites

great..a cast with all relatively young, semi attractive to attractive contestants..

I loathe the fact that I watch this show, but I do.

This is the only Reality show I have ever watched except for the first season of survivor. Can't Wait!!

i havent watched since season 1, but i suppose i could give it another go.

awesome, i'm not the only one here who watches it.

i normally don't watch every episode..but i try to follow it fairly closely..i should tape them or something

Eric is a Creed fan, maybe we'll have a fight.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20612

Herc Has Stood Within The Home of His Future Neighbors: The BIG BROTHER 6 House!!

I am – Hercules!!

“This is a secret,” Arnold Shapiro, the 64-year-old executive producer of “Big Brother 6,” told me Tuesday. “You can’t talk about it.”
And I’m still not 100-percent sure he wasn’t kidding. “This is a secret?” I asked. “Seriously?” I glanced back at the tiny publicist, Jen, who shadowed us Tuesday through the brand new “Big Brother” set. She’s nodded. Jen’s expression betrayed no mirth.

And it’s such an innocuous piece of misdirection! A really minor hoax, if that’s even the word, but one I’m told will be perpetrated upon the millions who will watch “Big Brother” all summer. Something many dozens of people, including many members of the working press, would have to know already.

I have no idea why Shapiro wants to keep it a secret, or if he just made this rule up arbitrarily, on the spot. But I will play ball. You will not find the secret cloaked in invisotext anywhere in this post. Because as one navigates the tempestuous waters of televised entertainment, CBS is not a boat one wants to rock. Neither is a show hosted by network chieftan Les Moonves’ superhot new wife, Julie Chen.

But Shapiro left me wondering. This hoax. Has it been perpetrated by the show and the network for seasons now? Or is it unique to this freshly minted “Big Brother” house, which has now made its permanent home on the old “King of Queens” set? (“Queens,” for those wondering how the two shows could co-exist in the same space over the summer, has fled to another soundstage. The area on which the old “BB” house once stood will soon be home to new offices for CBS’ local Los Angeles news personnel.)
This was my first visit to any “Big Brother” set, but I’ve wanted to visit one for at least half a decade now. After “Project Greenlight,” “Big Brother” is my favorite reality show ever. I’ve not only watched every episode, I subscribe every year to the live 24-7 Internet feed to watch the housemates flirt, scheme and bicker, day and night. If you want to learn why, click that “More On This Topic” button just above the talkback. This show blisses me out, and is the reason Ain’t It Cool: Coaxial News gets much, much quietier between July and September.

Another reason I’ve craved a set visit? I’ve lived about a block from that set since they built it. You know those planes that fly over the “BB” house with rude message-banners for the houseguests? I can read those messages, effortlessly, from my East-facing balcony.

Anyway, here are some secrets I believe I can reveal of “Big Brother 6”:

* The theme this year is “Summer of Secrets.”

* The new house is spectacular. And much bigger than the old one. The pool is bigger and deeper (though not by much), the hot tub is recessed, the “grass” is greener, the air is sweeter, the yard is huuuge, the HoH room looks like the best suite at the Four Seasons. I wish this house were mine. And perhaps one day it will be!

* There are 14 houseguests. But my tour of the house on Tuesday revealed there are only 10 beds: the “Head of Household” (HoH) bed on the upper floor and nine others below. When I asked Shapiro how 14 houseguests would fit into only 10 beds? He said only this: “Summer of Secrets. Summer of Secrets.”
* The nine beds on the ground floor? All packed into one tiny room. Also? About half of them look nicer than the other half.

* You heard me right. The new “BB” house is a split level. The upper level contains little more than the HofH suite. Which is much bigger this year, and features for the first time its own private potty and shower.

* There's foozball in the backyard.

* There will be video displays above the eviction keys instead of mere photographs.

* Every houseguest has a secret! Not just some! Quoth the press release:
For the first time, every houseguest will be entering the house and playing the game with a secret partner -- someone they know from the outside world. Friends, co-workers and significant others will play the Big Brother game as secret duos. The twist is that each secret team believes that they are the only pair in the house (pairings will be revealed to TV viewers during the first live broadcast on July 14). Each twosome knows that if they can keep their secret and end up being the last two people in the house, the winner will win $1,000,000, the biggest cash prize in Big Brother history, with the second place finisher winning $250,000. If a twosome does not make it to the final two, the winner will win $500,000.

* Even the new house has secrets! Press release again!
Like the contestants that will inhabit it, the new house is also full of secrets and surprises that will be unveiled throughout the summer.

* If you’re a houseguest who’s somehow escaped media quarantine and logged onto the Internet? Some tips: When you enter those thick doors on July 7, run to the right. That’s where the nine downstairs beds are. There’s not much else to right, but beds are important. Also to the right is the confessional (or whatever it is “BB” calls that private talk-to-the-cameras room) and the living room where they hold the eviction ceremonies. There's also a striking chrome basket-weave wall. There’s a lot more if you go left, but not much in the way of beddage. Go to the left and you’ll find only the very large and colorful kitchen, the entrance to the huge Astroturf yard, the staircase to the HoH level, the exercise room (which has a keypad lock, suggesting access to it may be limited), and the gigantic single-commode downstairs bathroom.

* If you’ve not yet hopped aboard this big “computer” craze all the kids seem to enjoy? Here’s when you are permitted to enjoy “Big Brother”:
BIG BROTHER 6 debuts on Thursday, July 7 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Following the premiere, BIG BROTHER 6 will be broadcast each week on Tuesdays (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT), Thursdays (8:00-9:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT) and Saturdays (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT). The Thursday broadcast, hosted by Julie Chen, will feature the live eviction of one of the houseguests.

* No geezers this year, at least in front of the camera. Not only are all of the 14 houseguests younger than Les Moonves, at least 12 of them are younger than the fabulous Julie.

* At least eight of the 14 appear to be young women. (Irvine graphic designer “Kaysar,” as it happens, appears to be a dude.)

* A whopping 12 of the 14 are single and, presumably, ready to mingle.

* This year’s contestants:

1) Maggie Ausburn, 26
Las Vegas, NV
Single
Emergency Room Nurse

2) Beau Beasley, 25
Pembroke Pines, FL
Single
Personal Shopper

3) Ivette Corredero, 25
Miami Beach, FL
Single
Waitress

4) Michael Donnellan, 28
Orange County, CA
Single
Artist

5) Ashlea Evans, 22
Plantation, FL
Single
Fashion Design Student

6) Howie Gordon, 34
Chicago, IL
Single
Meteorology Student

7) Sarah Hrejsa, 22
Chicago, IL
Single
Retail Manager

April Lewis, 30
Dallas, TX
Newlywed
Pharmaceutical Sales Rep.

9) Eric Littmann, 36
Boston, MA
Married Dad
Firefighter

10) Janelle Pierzina, 25
Miami Beach, FL
Single
VIP Cocktail Waitress

11) Rachel Plencner, 33
Parker, CO
Single
Horse Breeder

12) James Rhine, 29
Atlanta, GA
Single
Loss Prevention Manager

13) Kaysar Ridha, 24
Irvine, CA
Single
Graphic Designer

14) Jennifer Vasquez, 27
Plano, TX
Single
Arena Football League Dancer

Learn what they look like here!!

Big Brother is just people who weren't cool or attractive enough to be on The Real World.

I can't wait for this. This is the only reality show I watch.

I'm sure I'll get suckered into watching this again this year. CBS is smart to start this in July when nothing else is on TV. I tend to get bored with it after about a month, but by that point I feel so invested in the show that I end up watching the whole season.

You want action, excitement, and nudity? Google the latest Australian version of Big Brother. Full frontal in PrimeTime along with more hookups than can be counted.

Here is an interesting article on the subject:

Nude Big Brother upsets Australia

Editions of Australia's Big Brother have a 15 certificate
The nude antics of contestants on Australia's Big Brother have prompted politicians to demand a review of how much nudity can be shown on TV.
The latest Australian series of Big Brother has featured regular nudity, footage of contestants showering and sexual activity in a hot-tub.

MP Trish Draper said it was pornography shown when children could be watching.

A spokeswoman for broadcaster Ten Network said the show complied with the existing industry code of practice.

Nude photographs

Ms Draper raised her concern with Australian MPs after the latest episode of the programme, classified for viewers 15 years and older, featured contestants taking nude photographs of each other.

"What we basically have is pornography and full frontal nudity on television at a time when children are watching," she said afterwards. "These people have an aspiration to be porn stars."

You put 15 sexually active people in the house who obviously enjoy sex and are young, it is going to happen

Ex-Big Brother Australia contestant Michelle Carew-Gibson
Ms Draper and other government backbenchers asked Australia's communications minister Helen Coonan to brief MPs and senators on the existing rules for broadcasting nudity and adult material on free-to-air television.

The Big Brother format has become popular throughout the world, with contestants filmed 24 hours a day in a house before being evicted one by one.

Australian contestant Michelle Carew-Gibson, who was voted off the show earlier this month, said viewers should turn off their television if they did not like what they were watching.

"You put 15 sexually active people in the house who obviously enjoy sex and are young, it is going to happen," she said.

"We are bored and we are going to do things."