Ultimate Big Brother

Ultimate Big Brother is the current and final series of the UK reality television series Big Brother to air on Channel 4. It was announced on 26 August 2009 that Channel 4 would not be renewing their contract with Endemol following the eleventh series and so would not screen Big Brother in 2011. The series will broadcast on Channel 4 for 18 days, from 24 August 2010 to 10 September 2010. It will be produced by Remarkable Pictures, a division of Endemol. The series will feature housemates from every series of Big Brother and a smaller section of housemates from Celebrity Big Brother, as well as the winner of Big Brother 2010. The series is sponsored by skincare brand Freederm. As with the eleventh series of Big Brother, the 24 hour live streaming is available via the Big Brother website as a fee-based service.

Production

The series was first announced during the launch night of the eleventh series of Big Brother. The first trailer for Ultimate Big Brother was shown on 13 August 2010 during a live eviction episode of Big Brother. On the same day, Channel 4 released a promo image for the series on the Big Brother website. The promo featured 15 of the previous 186 Big Brother housemates and 68 Celebrity Big Brother housemates, along with the tag line "Who goes in? We decide".

Broadcasts

The Launch Night and first broadcast of Ultimate Big Brother was on Tuesday 24 August 2010 as part of the Big Brother 2010 final night show, presented by Davina McCall.

The main television coverage of Ultimate Big Brother is screened on Channel 4 using daily highlights programmes, narrated by Marcus Bentley. These episodes summarise the events of the previous day in the House. Although the schedule is erratic, in general the Monday to Thursday highlights episodes are shown at 10pm and aired for 70 minutes, whilst the weekend shows air for 60 minutes at 9pm. The two-part, live eviction shows, hosted by Davina McCall, feature a highlights episode 9pm and a second show at 10.35pm in which the evicted housemate (or housemates) are interviewed. Eviction shows and highlights episodes are given a censored repeat the following morning on both Channel 4 and E4.

Alongside these highlights shows were spin-off programmes, Big Brother's Big Mouth and Big Brother's Little Brother, that comment on fandom, cultural reaction to the events within the House and include interviews with celebrities, former housemates and family and friends of housemates. Emma Willis and George Lamb present Big Brother's Little Brother live on E4 at 6pm for 30 minutes Monday to Friday and on Channel 4 for an hour Sunday lunchtime. Big Brother's Big Mouth is fronted by McCall and aired on E4 for an hour after the main eviction programme.

Logo

The eye used for this series is the same used for Big Brother 2010.

House

Since the third series in 2002, the programme has been filmed at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The House for Ultimate Big Brother is the same House used for the eleventh series and is mainly glass walled with floral designs. The entrance has a heaven theme with a single staircase and the Diary Room underneath, to the right hand side. The Diary Room reflected this heaven theme with wings on the chair and a sky scene as the backdrop. A small task room is located off of the Diary Room. Upon entering the living room, there is one large red sofa. In contrast to the kitchen and bathroom's modern effect, the bedroom consisted of Salvador Dali designs on the beds. As revealed in Big Brother 2010, the beds can be raised in order to wake the housemates. The bedroom also contains a walk-in wardrobe. The store room for the house is located off of the kitchen. The garden has a carnival theme and includes a carousel (for the smoking area) and a snug (called the nest). The garden also contains a mini pool/tub and outdoor showers. A large task room is located off of the garden and the garden toilet can be used to access a smaller task room. On the penultimate day of Big Brother 2010 it was revealed that a few changes had been made to the house prior to Ultimate Big Brother beginning. The glass walls of the shower have been made frosted and the cameras have been removed from the toilets, in order to respect the privacy of the celebrity housemates.

The house includes several features present from Big Brother 2010:

• Bob Righter – a fortune teller machine used to predict the future,
• Davina McCaw – a mechanical parrot in the living room used to recall previous conversations made by the housemates,
• Tree of Temptation – a chest of drawers in the bathroom made from the Tree of Temptation present in 2010's celebrity series.

In celebration of the final series, the house also includes at least one feature from previous series of Big Brother:

• Bedsit – previously used in Big Brother 2004. The 2010 series' secret bedsit housed Michelle Bass and Victor Ebuwa from Day 4 to Day 6. The bedsit had its own Diary Room (a copy of the Diary Room from Big Brother 2004) and was used to spy on and reward or torture the housemates. Michelle also inhabited the 2004 series' bedsit with Emma Greenwood and Victor was one of their prank victims.

Housemates

On Day 1, following the Big Brother 2010 final, 11 former housemates entered the Ultimate Big Brother House. These included the eleventh series winner, 5 housemates from regular Big Brother series and 5 housemates from Celebrity Big Brother series. On Day 4, two new housemates (Michelle and Victor) entered the bedsit. They were both allowed full access to the House on Day 6.

Name	Big Brother history		Age	Hometown	Source
	Series	Status
Brian Dowling	Big Brother 2	Winner	32	Rathangan, County Kildare, Ireland
Chantelle Houghton	Celebrity Big Brother 4	Winner	27	Brentwood, Essex
Coolio	Celebrity Big Brother 6	Third place	47	Monessen, Pennsylvania
John McCririck	Celebrity Big Brother 3	Evicted	70	Surbiton, London
Josie Gibson	Big Brother 11	Winner	25	Bristol
Makosi Musambasi	Big Brother 6	Third place	29	Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Michelle Bass	Big Brother 5	Evicted	29	Newcastle upon Tyne
Nadia Almada	Big Brother 5	Winner	33	Woking, Surrey
Nick Bateman	Big Brother 1	Ejected	42	London
Nikki Grahame	Big Brother 7	Fifth place	28	Watford, Hertfordshire
Preston	Celebrity Big Brother 4	Fourth place	28	Worthing, West Sussex
Ulrika Jonsson	Celebrity Big Brother 6	Winner	43	Cookham Dean, Berkshire
Victor Ebuwa	Big Brother 5	Evicted	29	London

House Guests

Throughout the series, ex-housemates from previous series of Big Brother have entered the Ultimate Big Brother House or have been involved in the series as part of tasks and for other reasons.

Name	Big Brother history		Guest	Reason	Source
	Series	Status
Caroline O'Shea	Big Brother 1	Evicted	Day 2	Took part in the "Who Is She" shopping task.
Kathreya Kasisopa	Big Brother 9	Evicted	Day 2
Grace Adams-Short	Big Brother 7	Evicted	Day 2
Amma Antwi-Agyei	Big Brother 2	Evicted	Day 2
Anna Nolan	Big Brother 1	Second place	Day 2
Lisa Jeynes	Big Brother 4	Evicted	Day 2
Darren Ramsay	Big Brother 1	Third place	Day 3	Announced the results of Day 3's nominations.
John James Parton	Big Brother 11	Evicted	Day 3	Recorded a message for Josie. However, she walked before receiving it.
Stuart Pilkington	Big Brother 9	Evicted	Day 5	Victor and Michelle chose Nadia to receive Stuart as a slave for an hour.
Craig Phillips	Big Brother 1	Winner	Day 7	Took part in the "Team Building" task. Craig won.
Anthony Hutton	Big Brother 6	Winner	Day 9	Revealed on BBLB on Day 8.

Summary

Day 1- On Launch Night, 11 housemates entered the Ultimate Big Brother House. The Tree of Temptation set John McCririck a secret task to be "Mr Nice Guy" by complimenting other housemates, not moaning and not getting into arguments.

Day 2- For the week's Shopping task, named "Who is she" (A phrase which Nikki became famous for among other things during her original stint in Big Brother), Nikki had to identify ex-housemates by touch only. She got 3 out of a possible 5 correct thus earning £150 for that weeks shopping budget. In addition to this she had to identify the actual ex-housemate from a line up of 4 people claiming it was them. She identified correctly and added £500 to the budget, having a total of £650 to the budget.

Day 3- The first nominations of Ultimate Big Brother began. All housemates nominated except Josie due to her exit. John decided that because Big Brother had threatened to make him immune from that weeks eviction that he would remain silent until the public had their chance to vote for him, but later that day following John's "Mr Nice Guy" task, the house was asked to vote on whether they thought he was a nice guy, the majority voted that he was nice, therefore he was still allowed to be nominated. Despite this he held his silence. Also on this day Nick was set a task by the tree of temptation to write down the names of those who would face the public vote (he was told by the tree) and hide the two pieces of paper. Later that day, Darren, an ex-housemate also of BB1, was sent into the house to find the pieces of paper and announce that Coolio and John would face eviction that week. Josie also left voluntarily as nominations were happening.

Day 4- Nikki received another task, dubbed "The Scoop". She had just 3 hours to interview all the housemates and type up the result for her column in the News of the World in order to win a party. Later that day in the first eviction of Ultimate Big Brother, John left the house with 50.6%, the closest result in Big Brother history. In a surprising twist just after the eviction two new housemates, Michelle and Victor, entered a bedsit next to the house something that became famous in BB5. Their presence was unknown to the other housemates. Their task was to both play pranks on and reward their fellow housemates. Their first prank was to send in "Mr Snuggles" an annoying and rather frightening looking clown who would make one housemates evening miserable. They chose Nikki and the clown was sent in.

Nominations table

	Day 3		Day 7		Nominations received
Brian	John, Coolio		Makosi, Nick		2
Chantelle	John, Ulrika		Nadia, Nikki		2
Makosi	Nadia, John		Brian, Ulrika		5
Michelle	Not in House		Exempt		0
Nadia	John, Coolio		Chantelle, Nick		4
Nick	John, Makosi		Makosi, Nadia		5
Nikki	Coolio, John		Chantelle, Nick		2
Preston	John, Makosi		Ulrika, Makosi		0
Ulrika	John, Nick		Nick, Nikki		3
Victor	Not in House		Exempt		0
Coolio	John, Nadia		Ejected (Day 5)		4
John	Josie, Coolio	Coolio, Brian	Evicted (Day 4)		9
Josie	Walked (Day 3)				1
Nomination note	See note 1		See note 2
Against public vote	Coolio, John		Chantelle, Makosi, Nadia, Nick, Nikki, Ulrika
Walked	Josie
Ejected	none		Coolio
Evicted	John 50.6% to evict
Source

Notes

• ^1 As Josie walked during the nomination process, all nominations for her became invalid and any housemates who nominated her had to later choose a replacement nominee.
• ^2 As new housemates, Michelle and Victor were exempt from nominations. While nominating, housemates had to endure various individual tasks from past series of Big Brother in "Nostalgic Nominations".

External links

• Official Website (same used for BB11)
• Big Brother at IMDb
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