[JJ.]

I'd love it.

I agree with Brekkie too. Have a launch night live task, have the bars dramatically fall on the house and really make one side pure luxury living and the other as basic as it gets. Also, housemates can only have access to their luxury items on the rich side, which may upset/anger some. That way, housemates will fight tooth and nail for it. Here's my series plan:

Week 1 - Live launch, 16 housemates enter into a live task right away. 8 losing housemates go to one bedroom, 8 winning housemates to another. Big Brother quickly transforms the house and the bars fall.

Weeks 2 to 8 - Housemates on the rich side nominate housemates on the poor side for eviction each week. Housemates on the poor side also nominate but can only nominate people on their side and have one vote. In Week 8, the immunity barrier is lifted with 9 housemates left, but the rich/poor divide remains.

Week 10 - Coinciding with the 10th (and double) eviction, the bars rise and the Final Six live in one house together for the final three weeks.

Week 11 - There is no eviction in Week 11 but the housemates still think there will be!

Week 12 - A single eviction on the Friday determines the Final Five. Messages from home this week, emotional penultimate week etc.

Week 13 - The finale week. Final eviction on THURSDAY leaves the Final Four for the Friday finale.


As for tasks, they would be a mixture of creative, endurance-based and teamwork tasks. In some weeks, the entire poor/rich side much work AS A TEAM to collectively get to the other side - maybe have a team leader like on the Apprentice. It's likely someone will ***** up on one team, creating hostilities if they fail. In other weeks it's every man for himself.

As well as having the show task based, there are lots of memorable events too. A special room is opened every so often, a 'venue' for a break from the house, but it's seldom open and as such feels special. In Week 7, the 10 remaining housemates have a Ball, with the men in Tuxedos and women in long flowing dresses. These events would take place on Saturdays usually, as a means of light relief to the competitive week.

From Week 10 onwards when the bars rise, plenty of memorable tasks that get the housemates dressing up, enjoying themselves, acting, singing and dancing. Plus the annual award ceremony in Week 12, with the Final Five reminiscing about time in the house.

The mixture needs to be not only about fierce competition but encouraging personal growth in the housemates - so I'd like to see some introverted people enter and given the chance to shine or an angry, moody person enter given the chance to grow and change. That makes a better series for the housemates (who can justify saying they've been on a journey) and a more momentous one for us.

Overall, the tasks are as key to a series as the housemates and if they get them right they needn't bring in any latecomers at all (which, after all, completely meddles with the 'no contact with the outside world' malarkey!