Big Brother 9 First Preview - June 5th Start Date!
Regular readers of Pop Buzz UK will already know of my love for Big Brother, the granddaddy of all reality television shows. This is about the time of year when the rumours start flying about the next series, with fuzzy shots of the house, and countless false unveilings of the new contestants.
There’s not been much of that so far this year, but there are some concrete facts that have now been revealed, making it prime time we had our first preview of the forthcoming series, Big Brother 9.
The biggest news is that for the first time ever the series won’t begin its summer run in May, having had its start date put back to Thursday June 5th.
This is a clever move on the part of Channel 4 bosses, as it prevents it from overlapping with the second series of Britain’s Got Talent, the Simon Cowell led talent show which got huge ratings last year when amateur opera singer Paul Potts finally emerged victorious.
Davina McCall will once again be back to do the main presenting duties, which will please and anger a fairly equal amount of people I guess. She’s not the best interviewer in the world, but Big Brother just wouldn’t be the same without her, and she is at least also a huge fan of the show.
As already announced, Dermot O’Leary won’t be back this time, as he’s left the Little Brother sofa for pastures new with The X-Factor. Ah well, it’s a shame, but I’m sure someone equally as good will be found. I hope they don’t go down the guest presenter route though. It may work for Big Mouth, but not Little Brother.
The series is once again expected to run for 13 weeks, although if ratings at the beginning don’t justify such a long run, that could be shortened at a moment’s notice.
After the relative failure of Big Brother 8 to hold on to viewers to the end of the run, this is a bit of a make or break year for Big Brother, and to that end, show bosses are planning up to 22 live shows through the 13 weeks. That means lots of surprise evictions and special tasks. I can’t wait!
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