Channel 4 have, today, released the Big Brother 6 Press pack.. here's what they've said........

The Big Brother House
The new Big Brother house, which was created by House Designer Patrick Watson, has been designed to look aspirational
"The house has been totally redesigned, but it’s still as small as BB5 even though the feel of it will be completely different. We want it to look aspirational and sumptuous to the viewers, but for the housemates it will soon prove to be uncomfortable and claustrophobic."
"To viewers the house will look like the kind of place you’d love to live in, but to the housemates the things they initially liked about it will become the things they find the most oppressive. The house will feel very different to any previous house and more than ever this year there really is nowhere to hide."


The Big Brother Rules
There is no contact with the outside world.
Housemates are filmed 24 hours a day and must wear personal microphones at all times.
The Diary Room is the only place in the house where Big Brother will acknowledge housemates individually.
Visits to the Diary Room are compulsory.
Nominations are compulsory.
Housemates must give frank and honest reasons for nominations.
It is not permitted to discuss nominations or to try to influence anyone else’s nominations.
It is not permitted to discuss details of how they’d spend any prize money (if they were to win).
Eviction is decided by public vote.
All tasks and challenges are compulsory.
Housemates must not act violently towards any other housemate.
Housemates are free to leave the house at any time.
If a housemate breaks the rules they may be asked to leave the house.
Big Brother reserves the right to change the rules at any time.


TV Schedule - Channel 4
- Live Big Brother's Little Brother to air weekdays in a 30 minute "teatime" slot, and on Sunday lunchtimes for one hour during the T4 programming block
- Special 60 minute Sunday night show offering psychological analysis of goings-on in the house
-Highlight shows to air Monday through Thursday with two live eviction shows on Friday nights

TV Schedule - E4
- Big Brother' Big Mouth, previously known as EFourum, to air Monday, Wednesday, Friday
- Nominations Uncut to air every Tuesday
- Diary Room Uncut to air every Thursday
- Big Brother's Little Brother to re-air nightly on E4

Voting
- 35p to vote by phone in UK; 40c in Republic of Ireland
- 35p+cost of text message to vote by SMS
- 35p to vote via interactive TV

Live Streaming
- Live streaming on Sky to be full-screen, as with BB5
- Live streaming will be available to Freeview viewers via E4

Big Brother Web Streaming
A series pass - £14.99
A 24 hour pass - £1.99
Individual moments - £0.99

It is not permitted to discuss details of how they’d spend any prize money (if they were to win
In BB1 they were all saysing how they would spend it thats a new rule

No pics as yet I'm hoping they'll come out later today! We need pics!!!!

10 days to go they should be coming out soon

Looks like NTL and Telewest customers will not have access to a 24/7 stream from the Big Brother this year!

More from todays Press pack for you....

FOOD, HOUSEKEEPING, WEEKLY TASKS AND CHALLENGES

Food and alcohol in the house is supplied only by Big Brother. The housemates will participate in compulsory weekly tasks to determine their weekly shopping budget. If the housemates fail a weekly task, they will each lose an amount per head to spend on shopping that week; if they pass, they have the luxury of spending more money per head that week.

Each weekly task will generally be set on a Sunday and resolved over the following days. As soon as the nature of the task is announced by Big Brother, the housemates will have to work together as a team to complete it and they will find out if they have successfully completed the task, later that week.




LEAVING THE HOUSE/ THE EVICTION PROCESS

Housemates can leave the house in three ways: they may be evicted; they can leave of their own free will (and may do so at any time); or in exceptional circumstances they may be asked to leave by Big Brother. Once a housemate leaves they forfeit any claim to the prize money.

Voluntary/ Involuntary Departure
If a housemate wants to leave they must first report to the Diary Room and give their reasons for leaving.

Big Brother may ask a housemate to leave the house if they behave inappropriately, for example, if they engage in violent behaviour, or damage the house or its contents.

Housemates who leave voluntarily, or who have been asked to leave, may be replaced at Big Brother’s discretion.

The Eviction Process
Every Monday each housemate will be called to the Diary Room to nominate two fellow housemates for eviction. Any housemate refusing to make a nomination or failing to provide Big Brother with a satisfactory reason for their nomination will be reprimanded at Big Brother’s discretion.

The Diary Room nominations will not be streamed on the website or E4 – instead the nominations will be announced to the housemates live, during Big Brother’s Little Brother each Tuesday. The results of the nominations process will be announced to the participants every Tuesday and will be included in the Channel 4 highlights show every Wednesday night. E4 viewers can watch the nominations at length on E4’s Nominations Uncut show each Tuesday evening. The housemates who receive the most eviction votes at this stage are then subject to the public vote, conducted via telephone, text message and interactive TV.

Viewers and housemates will only find out who is to be evicted during the first of Channel 4’s live Friday night shows and the evicted housemate will leave during the second live show. During the final week of the series viewers will be asked to vote for who should be the winner of Big Brother.

Big Brother reserves the right to change the frequency, times and details of nominations and evictions at any time.

ok so thats the same...

To be honest it was not the best press pack in the world ever.

I think they must just be putting some standard details out to shut the tabloids up a bit and whet people's appetites.

The exicting stuff will start coming through next week (I hope!!)

thx for posting all this amy...

umm yeah i dont care what they say now before the show starts..

as long as the show itself is good