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Big Brother Australia 2008 is the eighth season of the Australian reality television series Big Brother Australia. Episodes will be broadcast on Network Ten and Ten HD in Australia. The first episode aired on April 28, 2008. Since then there has been a total 20 housemates competing in the series. Half way through the series the prize money was revealed to be $250,000, the amount originally given in the earlier season of the series.
This season introduced Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O as the new hosts and will feature the return of an adult-themed weekly installment.[1] The season featured a new audition process similar to the format used in the earlier seasons where people wishing to audition sent in a tape rather than attending cattle call audition sessions. For the first time in Big Brother Australia the public could vote which housemates they wanted to see in the House prior to the commencement of the season. The tagline in pre-season publicity was "I don't think so"[2], based on the song by Kelis.
The series is planned to last 86 days - a shorter run than preceding seasons. The season will end 21 July 2008.
Pre-season
Auditions
Auditions opened in late 2007. People wishing to audition were required to post a video audition of themselves on the official Big Brother website. Voting closed on January 7, 2008. The three people with the highest number of votes would be guaranteed a place in the House with the top 50 others to go through a second selection process.
Promotions
Promotional advertisements for the new series premiered on April 6, 2008 featuring a short video of former Australian Prime Minister John Howard criticising the show in 2006, stating that Channel Ten should "get this stupid show off the air", followed by the tagline "I Don't Think So" from the eponymous Kelis track.[3]
Series
The series began Monday 28 April 2008 at 7.00 pm. The opening episode had the lowest-ever ratings of any launch of Australian Big Brother. The episode mostly outrated its competitors in most timeslots - except its second half hour when it lost out to Border Security. The audience for the launch peaked at 1.91 million. [4]
The series will last a total of 84 days. The 2008 Finale will air on Monday 21 July 2008 at 7.00pm on Network Ten. It will be the first Finale in Big Bother Australia history to feature three finalists and will be the first hosted by Kyle and Jackie O.[5]
Changes from prior seasons
Broadcasts
Starting this season new hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O replace Gretel Killeen who had hosted since the show's launch in 2001.
The nomination and eviction processes have been changed for this season and those elements will both be covered in the same weekly episode of the program (nominations previously had a weekly special dedicated to them which aired every Monday evening).
A new panel discussion program titled Big Brother's Big Mouth will air Monday nights at 9:30pm, hosted by Tony Squires and Rebecca Wilson. This show is similar in format to the UK Big Brother panel show of the same name.
Big Brother Up Late did not air this season due to Ten's late night programming schedule being used for Indian Premier League cricket telecasts in May/June. In comparison to 2007's broadcast, BB08 saw 11 hours less free-to-air telecasts a week, solely due to the absence of Mike Goldman's Big Brother Up Late.
Television broadcast episodes featured a slightly new logo and graphics, and much shorter theme music intros to each show.
The free internet streaming has also changed. The time allotted to free streaming has been cut to three five minute blocks per day. The full-membership subscriptions cost around the AU$33.00 mark.
Nomination and Eviction Voting Format
In the previous series of Big Brother, housemates nominated two other housemates for eviction and viewers then voted to actually evict. This year, the public vote for which housemate to save from eviction. The three housemates with the least amount of saves are nominated for eviction. The housemates then vote to evict one of the three. Housemates will give two points to one person they want evicted, and one point to another of the three.
For this season, each winner of Friday Night Games has additional power to affect nominations and evictions. They are able to discuss nominations and voting with their two chosen guests in the new "Strategy Room". The winner has the power to remove one nominated housemate from the nomination lineup, after which the housemate in fourth place is moved into the nomination lineup. In awarding eviction points, the winner may award four points to one person, and two points to another.
After five weeks the nomination and eviction process reverted to the traditional format of all previous seasons: the housemates nominate and viewers vote for the housemate to be evicted. Unlike the preceding few seasons, there was no save vote; viewers could only vote to evict.
At the start of the season Big Brother announced that "snap evictions" will be executed at various points during the season. Terri was evicted on the first night in a snap eviction, but was soon returned to the house. Two of the three viewer-voted housemates, Barney and Michael, were removed in what was described by the show's makers as a "snap eviction".
The House
The House was rebuilt with a new layout as has occurred with most seasons of Australian Big Brother. The bedroom contains just one big bed for all housemates to share. The garden features a Volkswagen Type 2 in which one housemate must sleep. There is also a vending machine in garden. The housemates can buy different things like food, sunglasses but also personal things. For that they can get a maximum of 20 coins depending on their behaviour.
Housemates
- Main article: List of Big Brother Australia housemates (2008 series)
It was initially confirmed that there would be 17 housemates this season. 14 housemates entered the House on the opening night, with an additional three entering in the first week.[6]
Friday Night Live
Big Brother Friday Night Live is a live show hosted by Mike Goldman and former Big Brother 2004 house mates Ryan Fitzgerald and Bree Amer. Friday Night Live started in 2005. It is when the house mates compete in a range of games and activities. All the house mates dress up in suits related to the theme that is picked. Friday Night Live starts at 7:30 and ends at 9:30 usually the hosts bring in the evicted contestants of the previous weeks. When they are hosting Friday Night Live they entertain the audience by playing various games like " Are you smarter than Bree Amer, peg face and best dressed. The other things they also do to entertain the audience are let Brice Fitz berg take his prediction of who's going to win FNL, News with Jim Shorts and he tells them whats going on in the house and " To crap for the daily show " they also have a kfc competion to get a chance to win $10,000.
The winner of the overall games is rewarded with the following:
1. Becoming Head Of The House 2. Get a Trophy 3. Get a reward 4. Saving a house mate from eviction
Big Brother 2005's Logan's, Big Brother 2007's Andrew and Big Brother 20088's Nobbi currently hold the record for most wins. Each of them have won three games during there time in the house. 17 different male house mates have won while 15 different female house mates have won Friday Night Live since it began in 2005.
Table of FNL winners and runners up:
Winner:
Week 1. Nobbi
Week 2. Nathan
Week 3. Rebbecca
Week 4. Alice
Week 5. Renee
Week 6. Nobbi
Week 7. Nobbi
Week 8. Brigitte
Week 9. Cherry
Week 10. Cherry
Runner up:
Week 1. Brigitte
Week 2. Travis
Week 3. Nathan
Week 4. Terri
Week 5. Nobbi
Week 6. Bianca
Week 7. Travis
Week 8. Travis
Week 9. Brigitte
Week 10. Bianca
Theme:
Week 1. Out of this world
Week 2. Hip-Hop
Week 3. Celebrities
Week 4. Scouts
Week 5. A day at the races
Week 6. Superheros
Week 7. Friday the 13th
Week 8. Heavy Metal
Week 9. Get Smart
Week 10. I Love New York
Reception
After the telecast of the season's third Eviction show, critic Andrew Mercado summarised the 2008 series Eviction shows, which he described as in previous seasons being a viewing highlight of the series, as having descended into "just a boring, hateful shemozzle, where Kyle insults everybody around him (housemates are psychos, the crew are work experience and the audience is a 'pack of pigs')." [7]
The 2008 season has shown a marked downturn in ratings for the program. Both the Daily Show and the Eviction shows are rating significantly lower than previous seasons. Ratings for the first 2008 Eviction were half those achieved by Eviction shows during the program's peak. Academic Alan McKee singled-out the departure of previous host Gretel Killeen as having weakened the series. McKee judged that Killeen had successfully provided the show's "moral centre". Of the replacement hosts McKee said that "Kyle and Jackie O just don't serve the same purpose. Jackie is quite limp and Kyle prides himself on just being wrong - he will always say the wrong, obnoxious thing and hurt people." [8]
By the eviction show on June 1 the program's ratings were said to have "almost flatlined on Sunday night, dropping below 500,000 in the key demographic along the East Coast." Host Kyle Sandilands called in sick for this program and his co-hosting duties were handled by usual series announcer and narrator Mike Goldman. [9]
Sandilands missed his second eviction show the following week, June 8, after again calling in sick, with a severe chest infection. It was reported that hundreds of fans took to message boards calling for his stand-in Mike Goldman for the June 1 and June 8 eviction episodes to become a permanent fixture. Some speculated Sandilands had already been sacked - and others accused him of faking his illness. A spokeswoman for the series said Sandilands was expected to return for the following eviction show. [10]
Another commentator, Peter Craven, described the 2008 season as being increasingly gimmicky. The visit by Carson Kressley to makeover the housemates was seen as an obvious gimmick that looked forced upon being reprised. The visit by hypnotist Peter Powers (Craven erroneously named Derren Brown as the hypnotist visitor) was described as being "riveting", but also as turning Big Brother into more a variety show. The choice of eccentric housemates and an appearance by Corey Worthington was seen as an attempt "to highlight the superficially weird" while the absence of Uplate this year is seen as a mistake. Craven suggests the worst mistake of the season is replacing Gretel Killeen, who Craven praises as being "formidable and charismatic" and skilled at her role, with new hosts. Craven judges Kyle Sandilands the more intelligent of the new hosts, but notes he gives no impression of having kept up with the show, as Killeen always did. Craven believes Sandilands to be "sensationally ill-suited to the format, which requires a warm embrace of the Big Brother ethos. By contrast, Jackie O, as the good cop is all vapid smiles and gooey attentiveness." [11]
In a news report where the series was described as suffering a "ratings slump" and where the new hosts were said to have been unable to save the show, former host Killeen was quoted as saying she refused to watch the current season and refused to comment on its low ratings. "I haven't watched it because I don't want to be in the situation where I am not telling the truth and I know people will want to know my opinion of it and I think it is much better not to have seen it," Killeen said. "I don't think it's dignified for me to come back and say this should be done like this and this should be changed." [12]
Australian TV ratings
MONDAY - FRIDAY DAILY SHOW
WEEK | Sydney | Melbourne | Brisbane | Adelaide | Perth | TOTAL | WEEKLY RANK |
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01 | 335,000 | 335,000 | 231,000 | 128,000 | 124,000 | 1,154,000 | 38 |
02 | 307,000 | 307,000 | 203,000 | 113,000 | 121,000 | 1,051,000 | 49 |
Weekly Summary
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Voting/Nomination Table
For the first half of the series, the public voted for who to save from nomination. The bottom three housemates with the lowest saves were up for eviction. The housemates then voted for who to evict, with the first vote receiving 2 points and the second 1 point. The housemate with the most points is then evicted. This year introduced a Head of Household; who has the power to save someone in the bottom three from eviction. The person with the 4th lowest saves is then up for eviction. The Head of Household also votes with double eviction points.
In the second half of the series, the voting format reverted to that of previous years. Housemates vote to nominate other housemates for eviction and the public then vote for who to evict from those nominated.
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | |||||
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Head of Household | none | none | Nathan Travis |
Rebecca Alice |
Alice | Renee | none | Nobbi | Nobbi | Brigitte | Cherry | |||||
Nominations | David Rebecca Saxon |
Ben Rory Travis |
Alice David Nathan |
Alice Bianca Dixie |
Alice Bianca Brigitte |
Alice Nobbi Terrence |
Alice Cherry Rory Terrence |
Brigitte Rory Terrence |
Bianca Rory Alice |
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Nominations (post-HoH) |
David Rory Saxon |
Ben Rebecca Rory |
David Nathan Rory |
Bianca Dixie Nobbi |
Bianca Brigitte Renee Terri |
Alice Cherry Rhianna Terrence |
Alice Brigitte Cherry Nobbi Terrence Terri |
Bianca Rory Terrence |
Bianca Rory Terri Travis |
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Automatic Nominaton | All Housemates |
Barney Michael Nathan |
none | none | ||||||||||||
Alice | Ben | Not eligible |
Saxon Rory |
Rebecca Rory |
Nathan David |
Bianca Nobbi |
Bianca Travis |
Nobbi Ben |
Ben Rory |
Bianca Ben |
Bianca Rory |
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Ben | Terri | Not eligible |
David Saxon |
Rebecca Rory |
David Nathan |
Dixie Bianca |
Alice Brigitte |
Alice Cherry |
Alice Cherry |
Brigitte Alice |
Travis Alice |
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Bianca | Nobbi | Not eligible |
Saxon David |
Rebecca Ben |
David Nathan |
Dixie Nobbi |
Alice Terri |
Terrence Terri |
Terrence Terri |
Terrence Terri |
Terri Alice |
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Brigitte | Rima | Not eligible |
Saxon Rory |
Ben Rory |
Nathan Rory |
Bianca Dixie |
Ben Nobbi |
Nobbi Cherry |
Nobbi Rory |
Terrence Rory |
Rory Ben |
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Cherry | Not In House |
Exempt | Terrence Rhianna |
Rory Nobbi |
Rory Ben |
Rory Bianca |
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Rory | Terri | Not eligible |
David Saxon |
Rebecca Ben |
Nathan David |
Dixie Bianca |
Brigitte Terri |
Alice Brigitte |
Brigitte Cherry |
Travis Brigitte |
Alice Brigitte |
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Terri | Nobbi | Barney Michael |
Exempt | Ben Rebecca |
Nathan David |
Bianca Dixie |
Renee Nobbi |
Nobbi Bianca |
Terrence Bianca |
Rory Bianca |
Bianca Rory |
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Travis | Rory | Not eligible |
David Rory |
Rory Ben |
David Nathan |
Dixie Nobbi |
Brigitte Renee |
Nobbi Ben |
Terri Terrence |
Terrence Rory |
Bianca Rory |
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Terrence | Not In House |
Exempt | Cherry Rhianna |
Cherry Brigitte |
Brigitte Alice |
Evicted (Day 63) | ||||||||||
Nobbi | Terri | Not eligible |
David Rory |
Rebecca Ben |
Nathan David |
Dixie Bianca |
Alice Terri |
Rhianna Alice |
Alice Cherry |
Evicted (Day 56) | ||||||
Rhianna | Not In House |
Exempt | Terrence Brigitte |
Evicted (Day 49) | ||||||||||||
Renee | David | Not eligible |
Saxon David |
Rebecca Ben |
Rory David |
Nobbi Bianca |
Bianca Brigitte |
Evicted (Day 42) | ||||||||
Dixie | Brigitte | Not eligible |
Saxon David |
Rebecca Ben |
Nathan Rory |
Dixie Bianca |
Evicted (Day 35) | |||||||||
David | Ben | Not eligible |
Saxon Rory |
Ben Rebecca |
Rory Nathan |
Evicted (Day 28) | ||||||||||
Nathan | Not in house |
Nominated | Exempt | Rebecca Ben |
David Rory |
Evicted (Day 28) | ||||||||||
Rebecca | Ben | Not eligible |
Saxon Rory |
Rebecca Ben |
Evicted (Day 21) | |||||||||||
Saxon | Terri | Not eligible |
David Rory |
Evicted (Day 14) | ||||||||||||
Barney | Not in house |
Nominated | Evicted (Day 10) | |||||||||||||
Michael | Not in house |
Nominated | Evicted (Day 10) | |||||||||||||
Rima | Brigitte | Removed due to injury (Day 5) |
HouseGuest (Day 63-66) |
Not in the House (Exited, Day 66) | ||||||||||||
Notes | See note 1 |
See notes 2,3 |
See notes 4,5 |
See note 6 |
See note 7 |
See note 8 |
See note 9 |
none | ||||||||
Evicted | Terri 4 of 14 votes to evict |
Barney Michael Terri's choice to evict |
Saxon 16 of 39 points to evict |
Rebecca 22 of 42 points to evict |
Nathan 18 of 39 points to evict |
Dixie 14 of 33 points to evict |
Renee 37.9% to evict |
Rhianna 37.7% to evict |
Nobbi 59.1% to evict |
Terrence 41.7% to evict |
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- Template:FnbBig Brother revealed to the Housemates that someone will be evicted the next day. Housemates had to decide who would leave the House on Day 1.
- Template:Fnb Terri returned to the House along with Corey as HouseGuests. Big Brother set Terri a mission to be Corey's guardian during his time in the House, if successful she would be re-instated as a Housemate. However she failed this mission.
- Template:FnbOn Day 9 Big Brother announced another snap eviction. Corey was initially offered the task of deciding which two of the three housemates voted in by the Australian public would be evicted. Corey declined this task. It was then offered to Terri and she accepted the task after failing her original task given to her by Big Brother. After the eviction Terri was re-instated as a Housemate.
- Template:FnbOn Day 12, during FNL Big Brother announced the winner of FNL would also become Head of Big Brother Household, get to vote with double eviction points, and get a dinner for two in the Strategy Room, where they are allowed to talk about nominations and eviction.
- Template:FnbAlthough Nathan won FNL, since he is exempt and cannot vote; Big Brother gave the eviction duties of Head of Household to the runner-up, Travis.
- Template:FnbAs Rebecca was evicted, she had to give her rights as HOH to another housemates, during the goodbye message she gave the rights as HOH to Alice
- Template:FnbAs this week, it's a double eviction, the two housemates with the highest points will be evicted.
- Template:FnbIntruders Cherry, Rhianna and Terrence entered the House on Day 35.
- Template:FnbOn Day 36, Brigitte (six points), Alice (six points) and Bianca (four points) were nominated for eviction however evicted Housemate Dixie used a Housemate Hand Grenade and saved Alice from eviction. Both Renee and Terri were then nominated in place of Alice. Both Terri and Renee had three nomination points total.
Housemate Hand Grenades
This year on Big Brother when ever a housemate is evicted they get to throw a 'Housemate Hand Grenade'. These hand grenades can be posative or negative, and usually effect just one housemate. Michael and Barney did not get to throw a hand greande as they were evicted mid-week by Terri.
Evicted housemate | Hand Grenade | Recipient |
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Terri | Housemate must live in the Kombi Van for the rest of their time in the house. | Nobbi |
Saxon | Housemate will lose all of their processions indefinitely. | Brigitte |
Rebecca | Housemate is required to do everybody's laundry. | Dixie |
Nathan | Housemate must wake up before all other housemates and serve Big Brother breakfast. | Travis |
David | Housemate must be the last housemate to go to bed every night. | Bianca |
Dixie | Dixie could save one nominated housemate from eviction. | Alice |
Renee | Housemate will not recive a message from home. | Brigitte |
Rhianna | Housemate required to all washing up and clean toliets everyday. | Cherry |
Nobbi | Two housemates must live in the Kombi Van until futher notice. | Terri and Terrence |
Terrence | Got to reverse Nobbi's hand grenade | Terri |
Rima | Rima reentered the house on day 63 to deliver her hand grenade, which was to tell the housemates that there is a mole in the house | All of the Housemates |
References
- ^ "New host Kyle Sandiland's bid to bring back Big Brother Uncut". Courier Mail. November 6, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-28.
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