Big Brother (Australia)
Big Brother is a reality TV program, shown on the
Australian channel
Network Ten, in which a number of contestants from throughout Australia live in an isolated compound (known as the 'house'), where their daily lives are recorded and broadcasted on national Australian television. Housemates try to avoid being evicted through the public vote, with the aim of winning a large cash prize of up to $1,000,000
AUD at the end of the series.
The Australian version is based on the
Big Brother series produced by
Endemol international. The show's name comes from
George Orwell's 1949 novel
Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopia in which Big Brother is the all-seeing leader. Australian television presenter and author
Gretel Killeen hosts Big Brother
Launch nights,
Evictions,
Nomination shows, and all other special shows; with
Mike Goldman as the series voice-over, and
UpLate and
Friday Night Live host. It is also available to
New Zealand residents (however
TVNZ did not screen series 6).
Big Brother Australia is based on the popular
Big Brother international television series produced by
Endemol. The series generally constitutes 14 or more contestants who live in an isolated house for several months. Housemates are at all times under the control of Big Brother, a rule enforcing
authority figure who monitors behaviour of the housemates, set tasks and punishments and provides the mechanism for contestants make external requests. Housemates are filmed 24 hours per day with edited highlights broadcast during
prime time slots, and late night footage broadcast
live. Live footage is also broadcast via the internet using
internet streaming. Housemates must remain in the house, and avoid being evicted by viewers of the show with the aim of winning a substantial cash prize at the end of the series. In order to support the housemates' emotional well-being, all participants have access to the
Big Brother psychologist
Carmel Hill at all times. After the series, housemates are required to attend regular promotional appearances around Australia at nightclubs in most capital cities. Big Brother Australia is produced by
Endemol Southern Star and hosted by Australian author
Gretel Killeen.
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Big Brother 2001 (series 1)*
Big Brother 2002 (series 2)*
Celebrity Big Brother Australia*
Big Brother 2003 (series 3)*
Big Brother 2004 (series 4)*
Big Brother 2005 (series 5)*
Big Brother 2006 (series 6)Prize Money
The eventual winner of Big Brother will receive a cash prize as a reward for being the longest lasting housemate in their series. In series one (2001), series two (2002) and series three (2003), the cash prize stood at a guaranteed $250,000
AUD, without inclination of the fines system. In
Big Brother 2004, the prize money was raised to a guaranteed $1,000,000
AUD, without inclination of the fines system.
Big Brother 2005 and
Big Brother 2006 both continued to offer the $1,000,000
AUD prize money, however, with the introduction of
the fines system, the winner of
Big Brother 2005 received $836,000
AUD in prize money. The winner of
Big Brother 2006 received $426,000. Housemates in
Big Brother 2005 and
Big Brother 2006 were given opportunities to regain lost prize money in special
Friday Night Live events.
Fines
Big Brother 2005 introduced a fines system in which the $1,000,000
AUD cash prize is decreased by $5,000
AUD as housemates violate Big Brother's rules and incur fines.
Various things Housemates can be fined for include:
*Speaking over Big Brother
*Not referring to Big Brother as Big Brother
*Speaking without a microphone
*Speaking when told not to speak
*Speaking in a language other than English (or in code)
*Touching any of the plasma screens
*Removing items from the Rewards Room without permission
*Discussing the pre-production process, including auditions
*Speaking about Nominations, including who a housemate had nominated after the nominations have been revealed or after eviction
*Alluding to who a housemate used their
Three Point Twist on
*Speaking about previous series; previous housemates; or Big Brother series of other countries, past or present
*Using task equipment when not given permission to do so
*Not following Big Brother's instructions
*Writing
*Singing commercial songs
*Attempting to contact the outside world
Following the first week of
Big Brother 2006, the
Punishment Room was revealed, where housemates have often been sent after receiving their $5,000 fine from Big Brother.
Secret Nominations
A fundamental and strongly-enforced rule of
Big Brother Australia is that nominations, and the use of any
Three Point Twists, are not to be discussed at all. Specifically, all housemates are forbidden from disclosing who they have previously nominated, who they plan to nominate in the future, or who their
Three Point Twist has been used on; and they must not engage in conjecture about who may attract nomination votes and why. These discussions are banned and are deemed collusion by Big Brother, as they may give housemates a competitive advantage. Breaking this rule incurs fines, punishment, or loss of the right to nominate in the following round.
Intruders
Every series of
Big Brother Australia has included "Intruders": new housemates added to the house by the show's producers as an on-going housemate after the series has started.
Location
All houses have been at the same location, the
Dreamworld theme park in Coomera - a suburb of the
Gold Coast,
Queensland. The house is extensively re-modelled between each series and is often re-configured mid-series to allow for additional function rooms or private areas.
Theme Music
The theme is titled
Big Brother theme and was written by
001 Productions. All of the themes used throughout the series are shorter and remixed versions of this track. The original track can sometimes be heard in the background when eviction votes, or the nomination tally in the
Nominations show, are shown on screen, or when eviction phone numbers are announced during a show. It was released as a single, and is very rare.
The title theme was initially released as a single. The track was an extended mix of the main title theme, and was released with an acoustic "Diary Room" mix and more trance influenced "Eviction" mix. It barely scraped in the top 50, but was re-released a few months later where it reached #12 on the
ARIA charts in 2001 with a B-Side of The Sirens' hit "Don't You Think That It's Strange" - which was also co-written by
Big Brother 2001 housemates.
During each series, specific elements of the competition have a special show dedicated to them, usually presented on a specific evening. Each week night and on Sunday evenings a compilation of the general events in the house for the previous day are presented. These programs add up to approximately 16 hours per week. The only day
Big Brother isn't shown at all is Saturday.
Launch
Has previously been called
Opening Night. This is the first show of any Big Brother series where viewers are introduced to the new housemates and get their first look at the Big Brother house for that year.
Launch shows are recorded a day in advance, ie housemates enter the house on a Saturday and the launch show is broadcast on Sunday. Hosted by
Gretel Killeen.
Daily Show
Shown each Monday to Friday at 7:00pm (30 mins duration) and most Sundays at 6:30pm (60 mins duration), the daily show reports on the previous day's happenings in the house. Sunday editions cover the preceding Friday and Saturday. Narrated by
Mike Goldman.
UpLate
Big Brother: UpLate is a late-night show screened every weeknight throughout each
Big Brother series. The show begins usually at either 11.00 pm or 11:30pm and is hosted by
Mike Goldman. The show was first introduced with
Big Brother 2003. The show features live footage from the house, interviews with evicted housemates, as well as brain teasers where viewers attempt to solve challenges such as word games, and may phone in for a chance to win $1000
AUD. An online stream was made available at
http://www.quiztv.com.au/ specifically for those that don't receive
UpLate live on television, enabling them to enter the competitions (eg, viewers living in
South Australia,
Western Australia and the
Northern Territory). It was possible for this stream to be viewed by those outside of Australia.
Nominations
Nominations, where housemates nominate other housemates for eviction, are shown as part of a special show shown on Monday evenings after the
Daily Show. In the first series of
Big Brother there was no special nomination show; nominations were simply shown as a part of the
Daily Show on Tuesday evening. Nominations were not live in seasons prior to
Big Brother 2006, but the announcement of who would be up for eviction was.
Housemates each have three points to appoint to two other housemates. Their first nomination appoints two nomination points to a housemate, the second gives another housemate one point. If Big Brother feels a housemate's nomination is not clear and consise, he can give the nominating housemate one point. The three housemates with the highest number of points are revealed to the house; until
Big Brother 2005, these would have been the housemates eligible for eviction. In the case of a third place tie, all those tying for third place would be eligible for eviction, on these occasions more than three housemates would be up for eviction.
An innovation introduced in series five, 2005, was the
Three Point Twist whereby the winner of the
Friday Night Games must subtract three nomination points from one of the nominated housemates. If they themselves are included in the original lineup of potential evictees they may opt to subtract the points from themself. This occurs after the initial nominations have been announced to all housemates, and while housemates may not discuss which housemate they remove points from, where the line-up changes it is often clear which housemate has had their nomination points deducted. The three housemates with the highest number of nomination points after the
Three Point Twist will face eviction. Again in the case of a third place tie, more than three housemates may be up for eviction.
Eviction
Housemate evictions occur in a program titled
Big Brother - Live Eviction. The housemate who has attracted the most viewer votes to evict is evicted. The eviction shows are aired each Sunday night at 7:30 pm, starting a short time before 7:30 pm
Australian Eastern Standard Time in front of a live audience at Dreamworld. These shows are hosted by Gretel Killeen and are broadcast live. In this show usually one housemate, but occasionally two, is evicted from the house, usually at around 8.00 pm
AEST. Shows that feature two evictions are called
Double Eviction.
Big Brother 2006 added the "2SAVE" vote, allowing viewers to vote to
save a housemate as well as
evict; in the final tally housemates' save votes and evict votes are merged.
In
Big Brother 2004, after the eviction of
Bree Amer due to a vote-counting error, a special eviction was held on the following Thursday evening. In this special eviction the housemate to actually receive the most votes,
Wesley Denning, was evicted.
Network Ten used this incident in their defence, saying how their post-eviction vote audit actually works.
Friday Night Live
Friday Night Live is a live show hosted by Mike Goldman and former 2004 housemates
Ryan Fitzgerald and
Bree Amer, showcasing a live housemate games competition conducted in an arena attached to the
Big Brother compound. The housemate evicted the previous week sometimes makes a guest appearance on the show. The show was introduced with
Big Brother 2005, broadcasted on Fridays at 7:30pm.
The winner of the overall games is rewarded with three prizes:
# Two nights in the rewards room with a fellow housemate of their choice, # Assigning the chores for the week (eg. Shopper/Chef, Farmhand, Housekeeper, Gardener), and# Removing three nomination points from a housemate who is nominated for eviction.
With the return of
Big Brother 2006,
Friday Night Live also returned. A fourth prize was added for the winner, they are presented with three boxes, each containing a prize, and may choose one box, not knowing what any of the boxes contains. The three boxes are themed on a specific country, and the three boxes featured a holiday to that country after the conclusion of the competition, a privlege that may be used within the house (such as laundry services or a special dinner), and a booby prize. Booby prizes have included a bow tie, and a chunk of Camembert cheese.
On one occasion the three boxes were replaced with a special prize where the winner was allowed to go on an excursion outside the house to Tiger Island (
Dreamworld), where they were treated to a feast and a tiger show. They then had the entire park to themselves for a night. The winner on this occasion was Gaelan, who invited Krystal to share in his prize. On a second occasion, the winner of
Friday Night Live, Jamie, was given the four usual prizes, and a fifth "mystery prize". The prize involved Jamie and the person he invited to the Rewards Room, Chris, leaving the House to get a first go on FlowRider, a new ride at Dreamworld.
The
Friday Night Live format was reused in the Ten Network spinoff series
Friday Night Games which began in February 2006 and ended before
Big Brother resumed for 2006. This weekly program was filmed at
Dreamworld on the
Gold Coast, and features two teams of celebrities (who are joined by members of the public) to compete in a series of games. The program was again hosted by Goldman, Fitzgerald and Amer.
Finale
The
Finale of
Big Brother Australia is normally a big event, with broadcasts lasting as long as three hours. In all Australian series the
Finale features footage from the final day in the house, by which time there are only two housemates remaining, culminating in the announcement of the winner. Usually the runner-up leaves the house in the manner of an evicted housemate, and is interviewed by Gretel Killeen on stage. Later the winner is asked to leave the house, finally joining Gretel on stage as well. In the 2004 season the final two left the house together, joining Gretel on stage to hear the announcement of the winner.
Previous housemates of the season sometimes put on a musical or dance performance. Hosted by
Gretel Killeen.
Uncut / Adults Only
Originally named
Big Brother Uncut, and renamed
Big Brother: Adults Only for
Big Brother 2006, this program showcased adult content from the Big Brother house unsuitable for the early evening
Daily Show. This mainly consisted of footage of the housemates showering, general risqué behaviour, and discussions about sexual matters. Each episode was one hour. During the early seasons of
Big Brother it aired at 9.30 PM Thursday nights. It later switched to 9.30 PM Monday nights, and then 9.40 PM Monday nights. It was rated
MA15+ (Mature Audiences - 15 Years or older), and hosted by Gretel Killeen.
Big Brother - Adults Only ended its 2006 run early after politicians warned Network Ten that its screening of the show could harm its push for media reforms
[(June 23, 2006). Ten shuts Big Brother - Adults Only. The Courier Mail. URL accessed 4-7-06.] [(July 3, 2006). Big Brother in bigger bother. The Age. URL accessed 4-7-06.]. The
Adults Only episode broadcast on 19 June 2006 was the last.
Big Brother Insider
A half-hour, Friday evening panel show hosted by
Tim Ferguson during the third series of
Big Brother in 2003. Panellists were various comedians and television journalists, and usually the housemate most recently evicted would also be on the panel.
Big Brother Saturday
During the first series of
Big Brother there was a one-hour Saturday evening show with Gretel Killeen presenting an overview of press discussion of the series that week, interviews with fans, and footage of what evicted housemates were up to. This show featured little actual footage originating from the Big Brother house itself.This show did not return after the first series, largely because
Network Ten acquired the rights to televise Saturday night
Australian Football League games after the first series ended, with these telecasts taking the show's timeslot.
The show attracts major
sponsorship from large Australian telecommunication companies hoping to gain promotion from the many telecommunications tie-ins during the series. Sponsorship deals have also included the
naming rights to the bigbrother web site domain name. bigbrother.com.au redirects to the URL currently in use. The current website is
bigbrother.3mobile.com.au (2005-), but past web sites were: bigbrother.ten.com.au (2004), bigbrother.optus.com.au (2003), bigbrother.iprimus.com.au (2002) and bigbrother.com.au (2001).
In 2004,
Nicorette Patches, used to stop smoking, was a major sponsor for Big Brother. Sara-Marie Fedele, a previous housemate from Big Brother Australia was the major promoter of the product during advertisements.
Big Brother also receives substantial grants from the
Queensland tourism board.
Other major
sponsorship comes in the form advertising space and
product placement. During the 2005 series almost all food products in the house came from a food company with commercial agreements with the show production company. Any food that did not have a sponsorship agreement had its label removed.
Other uses of
product placement have included:
* During
Big Brother 2001, a preview of
The Secret Life of Us that was shown to the housemates late in the first series.
The Secret Life of Us, another
Network Ten programme, was preparing to make its premiere immediately after
Big Brother 2001 had ended. The housemates' seemingly ingenuine positive reaction to the new show was aired during a
Daily Show.
* During
Big Brother 2003, housemates were given a task to count a large bowl of
M&M's, a major sponsor for the series.
* During
Big Brother 2004, the entire backyard of the house was filled with snow, to tie in with a special viewing of the film
The Day After Tomorrow.
* During
Big Brother 2005, housemates were required to take Tango dancing lessons and were treated to a special viewing of the film
Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Other
20th Century Fox tie ins included a "favourite fantastic four" housemates competition, linked to the
Fantastic Four film. In one episode, approximately ten minutes of the
UpLate show focused solely on the use of a mobile phone which had been provided by one of the show's major sponsors.
* The use of
3 video phones was heavily emphasised during
Big Brother 2006, with housemates having short video calls with friends at their
Eviction with
Gretel; housemates sometimes being given the opportunity to see something that's happened on the outside world from inside the
Diary Room; and evicted housemates being given two video phones, as well as money and a holiday, as prizes for being in the
Big Brother House. A winner of
Friday Night Live and the person he invited to the
Rewards Room were also provided with an EyeCam - a wireless mobile webcam that can be viewed from a 3 phone via a video call - so that two new replacement housemates that had entered the House near the end of the series could "have the
Rewards Room experience" from the
Diary Room. After this, EyeCams were given as an additional prize to evicted housemates.
Many other criticisms are aimed at the program including:
* Home viewer competitions not being open to the residents of
South Australia, the
Northern Territory and
Western Australia due to timezone differences. However this has been rectified with a new competition in the 2005 series called
Hammer Down which enables all residents of Australia to enter. In 2006, there was a new website which enabled S.A., N.T. and W.A. veiwers to participate with live streaming of
UpLate over the web. The site is http://www.quiztv.com.au
* Telephone costs associated with housemate evictions.
* The content of its
Uncut shows, which during the
2005 series was said by some commentators to border on pornography, with graphic depictions of masturbation (the girls used a hose in the sauna to "get themselves off"), constant nudity, and mistaken allegations that one male housemate rubbed his penis in a female housemate's hair. These criticisms were even made by Federal Government Parliamentarians led by
Trish Draper.
** In two separate findings, the
Australian Communications and Media Authority determined
Network Ten breached clause 2.4 of the
Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice. These two breaches were in relation to the broadcast of Big Brother Uncut on 30 May, 13 June and 4 July 2005. The Broadcasting material was not classified according to the Television Classification Guidelines.[
1]
* The advertisement content of
UpLate, particularly during the
2005 series. The show featured increasing numbers of premium charge
SMS and telephone competitions. On some nights less than half the show was footage from the house.
Complaints about Uncut / Adults Only
The fifth (2005) series of
Big Brother was heavily promoted with a "sexy" theme. This series emphasised young, good looking housemates who were willing to have relations in public. The actions of the housemates gave rise to complaints from politicians and conservative family groups.
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Big Brother: Adults Only was formerly known as Big Brother Uncut |
The following instances of Uncut footage gained the most publicity during the 2005 series:
* On Day 4 during a birthday party for housemate Michelle, many of the housemates had a game of "
spin the bottle" in the spa while drunk. The game featured same-sex kisses.
* Many of the male housemates casually told racist jokes until viewers complained and producers put a strict ban on racist language.
* Housemates Michelle and Glenn spent a night in an isolated room and bathed together naked.
Endemol Southern Star released a press statement suggesting the couple may have had sex. It was later revealed they did not.
* Housemate Michael massaged housemate Gianna's shoulders while standing closely behind her and exposing his penis.
* Some of the male housemates created a crude song about scat sexual fetishes.
Following complaints by the
Australian Family Association, parliament member
Trish Draper voiced her concerns over the show's influence on children. The story was quickly scooped up by mainstream media and rival commercial networks
Seven and
Nine, who used the opportunity to launch attacks against their competition. Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Helen Coonan quickly followed the complaints with a formal letter to
Network Ten.
Shortly after show producers removed the "Uncut" section from the official Big Brother website, with a statement that the removal was to appeal to the show's broad audience. This part of the site is now only available to fee paying "Premium" members.
After the 2005 series concluded, further complaints prompted the
Australian Communications and Media Authority to launch an investigation into
Big Brother: Uncut. The main complaint was that Network Ten had breached the industry code of practice by broadcasting footage that went past the maximum
MA15+ rating for Australian commercial television. The ACMA found Network Ten had breached the code on two occasions: the airing of housemate Michael massaging Gianna with his penis exposed and the song about sexual fetishes. The ACMA did not impose any direct punishment on Network Ten, however outlined requirements for the 2006 series of
Uncut. Included in those requirements is a commitment by Network Ten to compile show footage far enough in the future so that censors can edit it if necessary. Two censors will be taken on by the network specifically for
Big Brother and crew will be trained on the restrictions of the MA15+ television rating.
Though the 2006 series of
Adults Only was toned down in comparison to the previous year, it still attracted some controversy. Following pressure from government backbenchers
Network Ten ended the run of
Adults Only several weeks early, announcing on
23 June 2006 that
Big Brother: Adults Only had "completed its season run" [
2]. Ten then made the
Adults Only video packages that were going to be shown on televised broadcasts available on a new section of the
Big Brother 2006 website, named Adults Only, and available only to
Big Brother Premium members.
Big Brother: Uncut, Unseen, Unreel was a DVD released after
Big Brother 2003 ended, and was broken down into three sections: Uncut, Unseen, and Unreel. These sections had footage considered too raunchy to be broadcast on television, and other footage that was not broadcast during the first three seasons of
Big Brother Australia. It was rated
M, which means that the DVD requires a mature perspective (preferably from persons over the age of 15), however it is available for sale or hire by anybody regardless of age.[
3]
All facts refer to the Big Brother Australia series* First contestant to be evicted: Andy Silva
* First winner of
Big Brother Australia: Ben Williams
* First time housemates had to give reasons in
Nominations* First series to have
Double Evictions
* First and only series to have "Big Ones" - coins included in the weekly budget for each housemate to vend hot water etc.
* First series with
Big Brother UpLate* First contestant to voluntarily leave: Belinda Thorpe
* First time there was more than one house
* First housemate to return after being evicted:
Bree Amer* The prize money was raised from $250,000
AUD to $1,000,000
AUD* First series with
Friday Night Live* First series to
fine housemates for breaking the rules
* First housemates to be removed from the house and disqualified: Constance Hall and Nelson Russell
* First twins in the house:
Greg and
David Mathew* First Friday Night Live winner: Glenn Dallinger
* First series where a housemate was nominated by the public for being "
Under the Radar"
* First time a mother and daughter were in the house: Karen and
Krystal Forscutt* First "Insider": Michael McCoy
* Oldest housemate: Perry Astolpolou
* 100th housemate: Perry Astolpolou
* First series with the punishment room, for housemates for breaking the rules
* First series where viewers could vote to 'save' housemate as well as 'evict'
See also: Big Brother (Australia series 6) - ControversyOn
July 1,
2006 two housemates,
Ashley (real name Michael Cox) and
John (Michael Bric), were removed from the house for allegedly
sexually assaulting a female housemate,
Camilla Halliwell [(July 3, 2006), Big Brother in bigger bother. The Age. URL accessed 4-7-06.], in a
season of the series that had already attracted significant
controversy. Following the incident the live feed was temporarily replaced by an old
UpLate update of the housemates completing their football task, continuously looped, and the forums on the Big Brother website were removed.
Queensland Police were shown the relevant footage, but opted not to conduct a criminal investigation
[(July 3, 2006). Police rule out BB probe. The Age. URL accessed 4-7-06.]. Subsequent to this incident former housemate
Rita Lazzarotto reported that she had been subjected to a similar incident during her time in the Big Brother house in the
2005 series[(July 4, 2006). Big Brother should be axed, says PM. The Herald Sun. URL accessed 4-7-06.].
Australian Prime Minister John Howard erroneously asked for
Big Brother to be cancelled, saying, "Here's a great opportunity for Channel 10 to do a bit of self-regulation and get this stupid program off the air"; Leader of the Opposition
Kim Beazley and Senator
Steve Fielding supported this view. Queensland Premier
Peter Beattie argued that the show employed many Australians in production and that, because of the already diminished size of the Australian television industry, the show should continue
[Australian Associated Press (2006). Axe 'this stupid program': PM. Retrieved July 3, 2006.]. This position however has been refuted by a number of people in the Queensland Film Industry, who believe that the money would be better spent on the fundamental problem of making the Queensland Film and Television industry self sustaining, as once Big Brother, and other government funded programs cease, there is no on going employment for the majority of people it was used to train. A number of local film makers were signatories to the petition that was presented to the Queensland Paliament in 2005 that sought to have funding for the show cancelled.
*
Bree Amer, regular co-host of
Big Brother Friday Night Live and
Friday Night Games.
*
Regina Bird, filmed a
pilot for her own show for Network Ten which never made it to air. Was a frequent guest on
Big Brother UpLate, and a contestant on 2005
Nine Network celebrity skating competition series
Skating on Thin Ice.
*
Tim Brunero now writes a weekly column on
The Chaser.
*
Simon Deering aka "Hotdogs", host of
The Uplate Game Show (2005-). Also had a cameo on the first episode of the Australian comedy TV series
The Wedge (TV show).
*
Wesley Denning, co-host of children's television show,
Totally Wild*
Sara-Marie Fedele, enjoyed significant celebrity status after the series, releasing a CD single, pyjamas, a book, endorsing Nicorette Patches and even was a celebrity contestant in
Dancing with the Stars in 2005
*
Ryan Fitzgerald, hosted
Big Brother special shows and regular host of
Big Brother Friday Night Live and
Friday Night Games he is also a radio host on the breakfast show on
Nova 91.9 in Adelaide, and appears frequently on Network Ten's
Before The Game.
* The Logan twins (Greg & David) filmed a trek to the North Pole and had selected segments aired on
Big Brother UpLate in May 2006 - reportedly the first trek to that region by a set of twins.
*
Blair McDonough, had an on-going acting role with daily serial
Neighbours from 2001 to April 2006, now working in the United Kingdom.
* Nathan Morris is now a host on the
Nova 93.7 breakfast show in Perth.
* Pete Timbs is a journalist for TV Week and co-hosts 'The Know' on the Foxtel channel Max.
* Brodie Young (intruder from Melbourne in Series 2) is a host of Quizmania on the Nine Network in direct competition to Hotdogs Up-Late Game Show. Quizmania screens 4 nights a week for approximately 3 hours per show.
*
Krystal Forscutt has a one year contract with
Zoo Weekly to write a weekly column.
*
Friday Night Games - a spin-off from Big Brother's 2005
Friday Night Live show
*
List of Australian game shows*
List of Australian television series*
Big Brother Australia*
Behind Big Brother Australia*
Google Directory - Big Brother Australia â€" a directory of Big Brother Australia fansites.
