I wonder if the round "eye archway" door and the way into the garden will be connected to that singular giant soundstage via one "porch"? That way, they can seal off the soundstage for evictions (ie. no noise can "leak" through the garden as it'll be completely sealed off).

Hard to explain but my thinking is the soundstage doorway could have its own shutter, and rolls up to reveal a porch - from inside the house, ahead is then the garden, under the canopy, and to the right would be the main exit door.

That sounds about right. There doesn't appear to be anything resembling part of a House interior visible through the open stage door. This will be the first House where housemates sitting in the lounge will not have any daylight coming though doors or windows. They could build that "porch" area so housemates can look out onto the garden without being in it. And the eviction exit will be via that porch and turn right. Evictees can do the usual farewell to the other housemates and then the inner door will be shut (cutting off the crowd noise). The evictee will then wait for the outer door to open so they can emerge into the crowd.

Wonder what the scaffolding by the road/office spaces are going to be.

I would imagine that the gallery/production services/eviction interview/"BBLB" set will be on an opposing stage.

There's also scaffolding around the garden, above the camera run, so they haven't finished up there either.

Hadn't occurred to me but this could be strange. I hope the house manages to feel somewhat house-ish still, rather than feeling like a set.

Where is the house located this time. Sorry if I've missed that.

Inside a studio stage (apart from the garden which is in the car park). This is at Garden Studios in Park Royal, on the banks of the Grand Union Canal, which is south of Wembley (as you can see from the above drone shot which has the arch of Wembley Stadium in the background.

The whole house and production is to be in the same sound stage.
The sound stage is 4 times the size of the old compound.

Id quite like to see a sodding great big brother eye on the glass windows. They will all be blacked out too.

Interesting. I'm actually curious how the construction is going to be set up. I work in film and TV and on soundstages *every* sound carries.

I still can't quite get my head around potential layouts. Plus that garden looks really miniature! :omgno:

With those steps right up to where presumably the hosts will stand when presenting and talking to the camera, wonder how long until an audience member decides to try run up the stairs and get a moment of fame. At best there will be a tiny rope to try prevent people trying it - anything else given the design would just look tacky.

I believe both the new bbuk house and the bb usa house is a similar size compound.
Comparibly to the size of the soundstage. I imagine the house will be relatively small.

Here's BB9 and it's not exactly huge

https://pictures.thisisbigbrother.co...use-aerial.jpg

The BB9 house was quite big in comparison to other years.

OK,
but at least there is a Pool

Yes it is smaller


More Tension/Anger
More Camera Close Ups

They may also have a Wide Angle Lens
that makes it look bigger than it is

I doubt a crowd would be allowed to stand that close, circling the steps, especially if the plan is to walk housemates and hosts up and down. There'll be crowd barriers I suspect.

No. During the BB17 house tour Emma made a point of saying the House had no natural light.

Ah, we have some greenery in the garden (most of it plastic).

I hope that green crane thing is a permanent fixture, crowd decides if the evicted housemate gets dunked in the river and the remaining housemates have to do a task to raise the crane before they drown. £10k deducted from the prize fund to pay for the legal case if they fail.

:joker:

Looks like the garden and house entrance share the same area now the flats and roof are up. Don't see any wall mounted cameras in the garden (always wanted BBUK to adopt the previous BBAUS method of having all the cameras behind the mirrors). Wonder how much of that constructed area by the stage doors is housemate space or camera runs.

Still interested how crowds are going to work and what natural light (if any) will go into the house.

Top of Garden it looks like they have moving head lights. Seperate from those in the audience area. So they may be able to special things with the lighting in the garden which makes sense if that's where they are entering/getting evicted from

It bothers me that the housemates can look up at an actual office building stairwell when they're in the garden lol. Really takes away the illusion of being cut off from the outside world.

The garden really should have been on the other side where they've set up the staging.

The Trick
is they can move all the staging.
And put it back,


Like on Ch5HD The Morning shows in the ITN building
then at 5PM they set up Ch5HDnews studio.

I presume they have tested the line of sight in the garden so that Housemates can't see the office windows.

I think the black roof/ceiling bit will have fixed cameras on the walls rather than a camera run.

The natural light thing will be almost zero in places. Smallish eindow/doors into the garden. Thats all.

The office window is psrt of the big brother compound. It wont be used. Id like to think they will be mirrored or blacked out anyway

It does feel very low budget, makeshift, give it a go, kind of effort.

Well this wasn't their first choice studio location. That fell through when the series was bumped from March to October. This may be just a 1 year only stand-in site.

Fancy another one?

https://twitter.com/BBEuphoria/statu...19238688268621

The low budgetness, makeshiftness, and give it a go-ness reminds me of the early BB's, so I like it. :thumbs:

The house looks massive, lots of secret rooms.

Boat arrivals could be happening!

Might just be me being thick but in the most recent garden pic, there is like a porch way with a ceiling, I thought that part led into the house, however on the most recent picture there is a gap of where maybe a camera run is, so where is the actual house I can't work it out. Probably me being dumb but can someone do a drawing or something so I can work it out

It really does seem like the garden is in the middle of well, nowhere? I can't understand it

See that big silver thing......that's the house.

And yeah I know that and I thought that. But why is there a massive gap behind that porch. Is it just unfinished?