Katherine - if two eigteen year-olds have sex in the Big Brother house, it is not illegal. You seem a bit hung up about that. There isn't an 18 year old alive who isn't having sex.
If it goes to schedule, Blaine does come out next month. As for 307 - it will not disappear, as that page will be part of Teletext on 4 on the 400s. But the new page may well be November's previews.
Katherine - if two eigteen year-olds have sex in the Big Brother house, it is not illegal. You seem a bit hung up about that. There isn't an 18 year old alive who isn't having sex.
erm - where was Kat talking about the sex? I read it as being sick of over-franchising BB.
Katherine - if two eigteen year-olds have sex in the Big Brother house, it is not illegal. You seem a bit hung up about that. There isn't an 18 year old alive who isn't having sex.
erm - where was Kat talking about the sex? I read it as being sick of over-franchising BB.
I'm making a general observation about where it could potentially lead to; we've had 'adult' Big Brother, then this spawned 'Teen Big Brother'. Given that voyeuristic shows are popular at the moment, it seems the age trend for Big Brother seems to be decreasing given Teen BB's arrival. As a result, Toddler Big Brother would seem to be inevitable.......
There are a number of key changes. Firstly, they all share one bedroom and there is no cigarettes, alcohol or personal possessions.
They have a uniform - yellow boiler suits.
There is no public vote, but there are two evictions - decided by the housemates. They also vote for the winner, who wins a trip of a lifetime.
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TEEN BIG BROTHER - THE EXPERIMENT
01-Oct-2003
Unless you've recently beamed down from an alien planet, you'll probably be aware that this summer eight 18-year-olds moved into the Big Brother house for 10 days to take part in a unique experiment: Teen Big Brother.
Commissioned by 4Learning, Channel 4's education department, the aim was to produce an insider's view on the lives of teenagers.
By playing around with the format of the original reality TV show, the producers came up with a unique situation that challenged the teenagers to address a range of issues: citizenship, leadership, status, living and learning together - all under the watchful eye of Big Brother.
Now let's just get this out the way. Yes, two of them - Jade and Tommy - did end up having sex on camera. But Teen Big Brother was about far more than a single instance of what executive producer Elaine Hackett refers to as a 'rustle under the duvet'.
As usual, Big Brother made sure the new housemates were presented with a few surprises.
For a start, the toilet was blocked to present the teenagers with an immediate problem to solve on their arrival in the house. Next, they were all made to share one bedroom - confounding any expectations they might have had that their experience would simply be an easy imitation of Big Brother 4.
In fact, in some ways this Big Brother regime was even harsher than normal. Cigarettes and alcohol were banned, and the housemates were stripped of all personal possessions and made to dress uniformly, challenging any preconceptions of each other. (Yellow boiler suits, since you ask.)
Another difference with previous Big Brother shows is that there was no public vote. The teenagers themselves decided who would leave the house in the two evictions that took place - a task that many of them found extremely stressful.
At stake was the prize of a trip of a lifetime for the overall winner - who was also decided by the group.
But despite all the format differences, the essence of the Big Brother experience was captured. No contact with the outside world, a series of compulsory tasks, and living under the constant scrutiny of a host of cameras and microphones.
And there were other similarities with the usual version. In the words of one of the housemates, Caroline:
'I didn’t think that people in there would be two-faced, but some people were definitely in it to win the game, and that led to a fair amount of back-stabbing.'
Some things never change...
The results of this unique experiment will be shown on Channel 4 at 10pm in five episodes over one week from Monday 13th October. An edited version will be shown as part of the 4Learning schools programming in January 2004.
A website covering the series will launch on the 8th October.
