[Brekkie]

RULES
The basic rules remain unchanged. Nominations will generally be the traditional method - nominate two, two with the most votes up, public evict.

Discussion of nominations remains banned, but the three-strike rule returns to deal with rule breakers. Three strikes and your out. No exceptions.

Any quitters or kicked out housemates are replaced by Big Brother directly as soon as possible.

And of course, no contact with the outside world.


HOUSE RULES
Nobody likes the phrase "back to basics", but that will be a key feature of the house set up. Hot water is back to one hour a day during the morning, although housemates can buy extra hours through their shopping budget.

And with food there is a big change - ready made food is banned, so everything they eat they make from scratch. It's not going to be advertised as the selling point of the series - but it's one of those changes which should help change the feel of the show and remind both housemates and viewers of the original ideas behind the show.

Apart from that Big Brother stays out of the running of the house - as much as possible is down to the housemates. Only other major rule is on eviction night only the evictee can climb the stairs - meaning we don't have that annoying "Housemates please close the front door" announcement at the end of the countdown.


TASKS
Tasks will once again be put at the centre of the format, with the general format being a weekly task for the food budget (Sun-Wed) and the Saturday Challenge for luxuries and other prizes, along with the occasional additional challenge. There will be some key challenges throughout the series which are far more important than others.


HOUSEMATES
As I've said, 13 housemates will move in on launch night. The format accommodates three more moving in later in the series (like death and taxes, new housemates are inevitable) - with just four remaining in the final week. Six has been far too many in recent years, and I still remember the final weeks of BB1-3 far more than I remember those of recent years which supposedly had more housemates to be more "entertaining". Having just four finalists forces the final four to really live together - whether they like each other or not.