Week 1: Continued

Task: The first weekly task will be more creative based, with the housemates set a challenge to complete. It will basically be something they can't fail, for reasons which will become clear later.

NOTE: In future weeks the "Shopping Screen" will take on a slightly different role, with the housemates able to spend their budget throughout the week. They'll be able to browse through the contents for about an hour a day in the mornings and top up their stock of groceries, but in addition there will be "special offers" which randomly appear throughout the week - and are on screen just a short amount of time, so making a group decision will not always be possible. For example, during the middle of a night a HM may get the opportunity to buy their suitcase in return for the rest of the budget - or BB could be kind and have a brief two-for-one offer the next day.


Nominations: Day 5/6
The core nominations process is the same as ever for this series, with any penalty for discussing nominations being a strike, rather than making up the rules each week. Three strikes and you're out.

One element I want to introduce is the occasional chance for immunity, and in each case HMs would compete for it, rather than one HM completing a challenge in exchange for immunity.

The first chance of immunity comes with the first nominations. Each housemate will make their two nominations and then be given the opportunity by Big Brother to have all nominations against them cancelled - meaning they are immune from the first eviction.

Big Brother will remind the housemates of how much they won in this weeks task to go towards next weeks budget - it'll be around £250-£300. BB will award one HM immunity in exchange for some cash back - with the HM ruthless enough to sacrifice the highest amount winning immunity, and slashing the household budget by that amount.

However - there's a risk to consider two, as if the exact same highest amount is pledged by two or more housemates, they will be up for eviction instead.

The nominations will take place on the Thursday to air on Friday during a live show with Davina, in which the nominees will be announced to the house, along with the revised shopping budget. The first eviction takes place the next Friday, Day 13 - Friday the 13th!!!

And that's Week 1...

WEEK 2

Day 7: Saturday
The Saturday challenge returns this year and will offer different prizes each week, ranging from simple luxuries to immunity.

It's going to be a messy, fun challenge which will result in one winner. The prize - a double date, with the winner choosing two housemates to have dinner with.

The catch - the other housemates will then have to ensure it's the perfect date, cooking the food and providing the entertainment.

And after the date there's a movie too - but only one of their dates can join them at Big Brother's drive in cinema in the garden.

Weekly Task
The weekly tasks will take place from Sundays to Wednesdays. This week it'll be a 24/7 challenge called "Power House".

There will be a human hamster wheel which the housemates must keep rotating for 72 hours. If they manage to do so, they will have created enough power to run the house for the series and will win their budget for the week. If they fail, their budget goes towards the electric bill instead.

Friday the 13th: Day 13: Eviction
Unlucky!!!! The first evictee is revealed.




WEEK 3

Day 14: Saturday
With the first evictee out of the way, the screen in the garden is removed and the housemates can see what is up for grabs - the spa, the gym, the sauna.

However, the door remains locked until they complete this weeks Saturday challenge. There are 12 sunken treasure chests in the pool, each with a key which opens another chest.

The housemates must take it turns to unlock a chest and find a key, which they then pass on to the next member to unlock the next chest. The key in the final chest unlocks the luxury room.

Weekly Task
A less exhausting task this week - one about finding out as much about each other as possible. HMs will each outline 10 or so facts about themselves, and then on Wednesday HMs will each be called to the diary room and in one minute must recall as many facts about a particular housemate as possible.

If they lost the Saturday Challenge at the end of the Weekly Task they'd be the opportunity to gamble and unlock the luxury room.

Nominations/Eviction
Regular noms, regular eviction this week, and by Friday we're on Day 20 with the second of the original 13 housemates being evicted.


Next... as inevitable as death and taxes, we've got some new housemates moving in!

The house plan is fantastic, brilliantly thought out and while adventurous, it fits legitimately with the existing shell at Elstree!

The eye is great too, refreshing yet simple!

Love the hamster wheel task too, it's been too long since we had something like that!

I used to love the 72 hour tasks, like BB2's Camp Fire task, it ensures there's always something to watch on the live feed and allows the housemates to bond in the earlier days!

Thanks borderline, appreciate those comments.

Any more on the updates to the format would be appreciated too please - admittedly there is nothing too amazing in Week 2 and 3 - it's a couple of fairly "normal" weeks, but there are some bigger twists to come.

Brekkie, you NEED to produce BB9! I seriously think you could single handedly save the show for another few years. The tasks, twists and general format/way of life in the house is all so new, interesting, original and clever! I would love to watch a series by your format! :dance:

Thanks Conor. When they ring me up I'll get you in to sort the house out then! :thumbs:

WEEK 4

Day 21: Saturday Challenge
With the healthier diet this year, by now the housemates will be gagging for some takeaway food - so that is what will be on offer tonight as part of "Big Brother's House Party". All housemates have to do is win their invitation. Only 5 invitations will be available though, but luckily enough they're all "+1", meaning the winners can invite a guest. It's just a shame there are 11 housemates though, meaning one will have to sit the party out.

Sun-Wed: Weekly Task
Not quite sure what, but it'll be one of those tasks where when an alarm sounds the housemates have to rush to a location and do something.

Nominations/Eviction
Regular rules - 11 HMs, two nominations each, two or more nominees, one eviction.


Day 27: New Housemates
Let's face it, they're inevitable - and though ideally you might prefer a series without latecomers, I personally think it's better to send a few in later in the series rather than sending too many HMs into start with. It also gives the series a mid-season boost too.

So, we started with 13 HMs, which is perfect IMO, and four weeks in we're sending in three new housemates. No secret garden, no house next door, no half way house. They go straight into the house.


Big Brother though has a gift for our three newcomers - "Immunity Passes". The holders of the three Immunity passes will be immune from next weeks nomination process - and won't nominate or be eligible to be nominated.

Now, our new housemates would never give up such a prize... Would they?

Comments welcome as always...

WEEK 5

Recap... We began with 13 HMs, have so far evicted 3 and last night 3 new housemates arrived and were each issued with Immunity Passes.

Day 28-29: Sat - Mon
On Friday night the three new arrivals were given Immunity Passes, meaning they are safe from this week's eviction...

... Unless of course they are tempted to give them up.


On Saturday morning nine envelopes will be revealed and placed in the house. Each envelope contains a pass of a different kind:

Prize Passes: As the name suggests, they offer the holder a prize. We'd have a couple of prizes worth alot outside the house, such as a Plasma TV or a holiday, and a couple smaller prizes to be won inside the house, such as a phone call home. There are 5 in total.

Pledge Passes: No prizes, but these can be exchanged for immunity in return for carrying out the stated pledge - e.g. cooking breakfast in bed for the week. There are 3 in total

Black Pass:well that's an automatic nomination for this weeks eviction for the one unlucky holder of the black pass.


Over Saturday and Sunday Big Brother will randomly play a siren into the house, at which point one housemate must pick an envelope and come to the diary room. There they will discover it's contents, but must keep it a secret. They can then choose whether to keep it, or give it to another housemate.

Once a housemate has a pass they can't pick another, and the process continues until all nine passes have been chosen, leaving one HM without a pass.


On Sunday the next stage of twist will take place. Each housemate will be given the option to either keep their pass or offer it to one of the new HMs in exchange for immunity.


The HMs will pitch in the order they went to the diary room, and have 30-seconds to convince the new HMs why they should give up their immunity. Remember nobody knows who has what - so even the holder of the Black Pass will have the opportunity to bluff the new HMs to grab onto immunity.


If one of the immunity pass holders opts to swap then they take the prize and the HM pitching take their immunity. If more than one holder of the immunity passes wishes to swap then the HM pitching will decide who's immunity pass they take.


This then continues until all HMs have pitched their passes to the immune trio (who may change a number of times throughout the process). Once someone sacrifices their immunity for a prize though, they are stuck with the prize. They can't tempt the immunity pass holders to swap again.


Once all nine pass winners have made their pitches the three housemates with immunity at that point are safe from eviction, with the nine with Prize, Pledge or the Black Pass stuck with what they have got. For one of them that means an automatic nomination, for anyone who exchanged a pledge pass for immunity it means they've got a pledge to fulfil - and for the rest, there's prizes.


On Monday the ten non-immune housemates will then nominate in the usual way, though the holder of the Black Pass is automatically up for eviction. The three immune HMs are immune for this week only - and cannot nominate.


Hopefully that's not too complicated for you... it probably needs simplifying a bit to be honest, but the basic idea is the housemates have to tempt the newcomers into giving up their immunity - and seeing how far they'd go to do so.

They'll be a weekly task too, probably a fun one where the HMs have to learn something to perform on Wednesday, and then the eviction itself on Friday, Day 34.


NEXT: Week 6

Any thoughts or have I confused you all?

WEEK 6

We're now down to 12 housemates.

Saturday Challenge
It's Cocktail night - but to win cocktails of the alcoholic variety, they'll have to get through some less appetising concoctions first. Sick buckets at the ready.


Weeky Task: Six of One... Half a Dozen of the Other
This week the housemates are split into two teams of six. They will not be told of the exact task, but will be informed that they should prepare in teams for it on Wednesday, and given the impression it will be something to test them to the absolute limits of physical and mental endurance.

And then on Wednesday the challenge will take place - a selection of children's games.

The winners get the budget for the week, while the losers face the Tin Can Lottery, and can only consume what is unmarked tin cans provided by Big Brother.


Friday - Day 41
Eviction number 5, taking us down to 11 housemates.



WEEK 7

How many housemates can you fit in a Mini?
Possibly beginning at the end of the eviction show, this week's Saturday challenge answers that question, as all 11 housemates have to squeeze into a brand new mini parked in the garden.

And once they're in, they learn the last person out will win the car.


Weekly Task: Body Building
Time for a bit of fun humiliation for the housemates, with some gratuitous semi-nudity thrown in - along with buckets of fake tan.

The housemates will have to learn a number of body building poses, and then at the end of the week each housemate will not only have to perform a 30-second routine including three positions set out by Big Brother. If more than three housemates fail, the group fail.


Day 48: Eviction 6
Another Friday, another housemate booted out - and another week with absolutely no nominations twist.


NEXT: Week 8 and 9, including the biggest twist so far. All comments welcome, good or bad. At least let me know you're reading if nothing else.

Your ideas are fantastic Brekkie, I hope the producers are reading this forum.

Your series plans are fantastic Brekkie. I love the tasks, twists and immunity ideas. Well done!

Thanks guys.


WEEK 8

Day 49: Saturday Challenge - The Rank Off
A task which crops up in most series in some forms, where housemates are ranked according to certain criteria - and those at the bottom get very paranoid and arguments follow. Hopefully.

For this challenge there will be ten categories, with one HM called to the diary room to rank each category, with the other HMs having to arrange themselves outside at the same time. For every housemate ranked in the same position, the housemates get a point - and the more points they get, the better the party that Big Brother throws that night.


Weekly Task: Picture That
A 72-hour challenge where housemates have to remain on watch for the period.

Over three days a number of pictures will be briefly shown into the house, sometimes in full, sometimes in part. Housemates will have to keep an eye out for them and have a n easel to recreate the pics.

At the end of the week they will be asked a number of questions about the pics they've seen, with more correct answers meaning more money for the next week.


Day 55: Eviction 7
Another normal round of nominations, with a regular eviction - but it's the calm before the storm...

WEEK 9: WHO GOES? ONE HOUSEMATE DECIDES!

(and I'm now realising I should have just outlined the three or four big twists rather than doing a full week by week run down, but hey - not long to go)


This will be a key week for the series, beginning straight after Friday night's eviction. The nine remaining housemates are informed that this week immunity is up for grabs for one housemate - and everyone except for the winner will be at risk of eviction.


The winner will be determined with a series of EIGHT challenges. We begin after the eviction with an endurance based challenge on the Friday night.

Housemates get 1 point for coming first, 2 for second etc. and at the end of the eight challenges, the person with the lowest number of points wins.

One housemate will be eliminated at the end of each challenge, which will be a real mixture of physical, mental and skill based challenges. The first and last challenges are endurance based, with the final challenge taking place on the Tuesday in a live special.


The winner is immune - but there's a catch. This week the viewers will nominate two housemates for eviction - and Who Goes - well it's down to the immune housemate, and the immune housemate alone, to decide.

The viewers would know this, and the immune housemate would also be informed in the diary room. I think also the other housemates would watch on when the announcement was made, but be told not to let on that they know.


Then on Friday it's the eighth eviction and the viewers nominees are revealed - with the holder of immunity deciding who goes.


All comments welcome

Love your ideas, why couldn't we have had this instead of BB8

Great ideas! I can tell you've put millions of thought into this, more than the real producers anyway :rolleyes:

WEEK 10
And the Executive Producer is bored of his job and resigns. :xyxwave: LOL!

Not quite... but it's not as easy as it looks this Big Brother lark - but hey, I'm not getting paid.


Saturday Challenge: The Chain Gang
Eight housemates, one chain - as long as it takes. The housemates will be chained together until just one remains. They are free to move around the house, but remain chained together until they quit. The winner will get a phone call home.

Weekly Task: Watch and Learn
This week the housemates will have to learn a routine and then perform it on Wednesday. It could be anything - I'm thinking something along the lines of that treadmill music video a few other BB's have done.



Eviction 9: Day 69
Normal noms, normal eviction

I like the treadmill task, would've loved to have seen something like that in BB7 with Nikki, haha.

But I think you're underestimating the housemates' endurance - the chained task could quite easily go on for days on end, unless it was made more of an ordeal. Either that or the HMs would come to a consensus and all agree not to bother with the task to allow a particular HM a call home. Same with the mini task, there may only be a few HMs that can drive, and they may already have a better car!

Just shows you that being a taskmaster is not as easy as we may think.

Well BB would have temptations to make people quit. Hopefully in this case though the housemates chosen would have some endurance, unlike last year when they'd have given up after 15 minutes.


WEEK 11: Thank god it's nearly over!!!

OK, not going to go in to specifics this week - but for the Saturday Challenge the HMs would have the chance to win a games room, which would be a conversion of the upper half of the bedroom, now that only beds for 7 are required.

Weekly Task: Beat Big Brother
There will be seven challenges to which housemates must challenge Big Brother. Each time BB is defeated, they win food for a day - so win all seven they get food for the week. Any days they don't have food they can only use the mystery tin cans.

Day 76: Eviction
The tenth eviction.


Now six remain, and they'll be a double eviction next week.

WEEK 12/13: THE FINAL FORTNIGHT

Saturday: Day 77 - How low will you go?
One guaranteed place in the final week is up for grabs - but at a price.

The housemates will be put into separate booths so they can't see what each other are doing. Each housemate has a button.

The jackpot stands at £250,000 - but the housemates willing to sacrifice the most off the jackpot will win a guaranteed place in the final week.

The jackpot will begin falling by £1000 a second. The housemates must press their buzzer when the jackpot falls to a level they'll no longer accept. The amount they stop at is the amount they will get if they win.

The last person to opt out wins a guaranteed place in the final - and also, if they win, they will get the full £250,000. But they won't know that until after the competition.


Nominations then take place as usual, with three or more facing a double eviction on Friday.


WEEK 13: The Final Four
The final weeks of BB1, BB2 and BB3 were classics - just a handful of housemates remaining forced to get on with each other. And who say's it wasn't entertaining - 7m were watching in the last week of BB3.

IMO since the number of HMs in the last week has increase, they've become less memorable - especially with six as that allowed HMs to remain in their groups, rather than forcing them together. And everyone, including Davina and BB themselves, agrees six on the last night is too many.

So we've got four their until Day 90, when one will become the winner. How much they win depends on the outcome of the task in Week 12.


THE END.

Ive waited for all 13 weeks to be posted, so I could read it all at once. Its amazing! Really well done, some truly good ideas here.

God, usually when I read back my own ideas some time later I'm usually quite critical of what I wrote at the time - but I'm quite happy with that, even if I do say so myself.

I must say though I have loved BB9 - not been happy with the outcomes of the evictions and think the show is suffering for it now, but on the whole the format and the housemates has been far superior to the last couple of years. Except for the fact we still have seven hundred and twenty six housemates remaining with less than three weeks to go.


Anyway, to update - the schedule:

Sunday: 9-10.30pm - highlights from Fri/Sat.

Mon-Thu: 10.00-10.50pm - highlights from the last 24 hours. I think the show would benefit from being slightly shorter and more focused - there is too much padding in the hour long version - and as 4 minutes of the time cut off is ads, we'd only be losing 6-8 minutes of action from the house. I think ending slightly earlier would help boost ratings too.

Friday: 9-10.30pm - an all in one eviction spectacular. It begins with profiles of the nominees and includes some friends and family chat, a weekly psychological feature and a look back at the week, plus around 40-minutes of highlights from Thursday.

The lines close around 10pm and we catch up with how the housemates have been preparing for the nights' eviction before the evictee is announced and booted out straight away for their interview with Davina. All 100% live.

Having it all in one slot too means it's a bit more flexible so things can be dropped or rearranged to allow time for a second eviction or new housemates moving in etc.

Viewers get Saturday night off, though Diary Room Uncut would air on E4, with just one edition a week.


BBLB - as it is now, Sundays on T4, weeknights on E4. Back to 7.30pm though.

Big Mouth - I believe firmly the eviction should be the climax of the week both for the audience and also the evictee. They shouldn't be carted around the spin offs straight after, they can do that in the next week. Therefore Big Mouth would air Monday to Thursday at 10.50pm.

Big Brother Live - Live streaming is the soul of the show, and it's an insult how much it's been scaled back this year, both on E4 and with the axing of the web stream. Without doubt the web stream would return, as would E4's daytime streaming.

I've no problem with E4 Music airing for 3 hours or so in the morning while the HMs are still asleep, but from 9/10am it should be live streaming through to E4's regular schedule around 4.30pm.


Big Brother's Big Ears - To be honest I think this is a spin-off too far, but it's actually been quite good - especially when Iain Lee was away. I think though it could be sacrificed and it's better to have the evictee appearing on BBLB and Big Mouth rather than on "internet radio", with perhaps podcast versions of BBLB and Big Mouth being made instead.

bloody amezzin!

A few of the tasks confused me, but probably cos its 6am.


just wow!

oh, the word bruddy is a bad one.

I built a two story house sort of...its amazing how much the house shape changes!

I did like a balcony ala US HoH room....with the stairs inside...so you walk up the stairs, along the walkway then thru the door....that makes no sense!

But yes....and again, amazing brekkie!