[Captain.Remy]

Source for the House pics

The cast this year will be all about 'High School cliques' and the 4 cliques that will be features are: Jocks, Popular, Brainiacs, Outcasts.

Source for the Twist

Big Brother 11 USA premieres on July 9th at 8 PM on CBS.

[MrGaryy]

lame twist.
fug house, though I like the bedroom.

At least this means we'll get a more diverse cast this year though.

[Captain.Remy]

The house looks awful as always (except BB5, 8 and 9). They still haven't changed the layout. It looks boring.

The twist is fine, the whole idea of putting people from different backgrounds (if we can say so) is rather interesting. But I keep saying that if the format isn't changed, the cast twist won't affect the show. It's going to be same thing over and over again. Too repetitive.

[MrGaryy]

I agree, there really is only so much having a great cast can do. They need to introduce a new twist to the format. perhaps bring in the Coup de'tat [sp?] permanently.

I liked the BB8, BB7 and BB10 houses. BB9 was disgusting, this one is pretty rank too.

[melanie]

This is what Andy Denhart from realityblurred.com is reporting:

"Big Brother 11 will somehow divide its house into two tribe-like groups, I first revealed yesterday, and commenter Joey Ortega pointed out that such a twist on the U.S. version would be borrowing from the original Netherlands version of the show.

For two seasons, starting in 2001, the Dutch version’s house was divided in half, in permanent groups during the third season and in groups that changed during the fourth season. Here’s how Wikipedia describes it:

“The housemates were divided in two permanent groups. One group lived in a luxurious part of the house, the other group lived in poverty. On unexpected times a battle was announced, in which the two groups could fight for the right to live on the rich half. Each group had a captain with special duties and privileges (a Head of Household before that name was coined). At any moment each participant was free to challenge his leader in a captains-battle.”

That sounds exactly like what I heard will happen this season, although I didn’t hear any confirmation about overthrowing the leader. That would be pretty interesting, though. And it’d be a nice twist if—and that’s a big “if”—producers replaced tired food challenges with these battles, not that I expect the show to suddenly have amazing challenges.

In addition, the luxury/poverty part of the twist—called the Bunker and the Bungalow in the Netherlands’ fourth season—could easily explain the “two house” rumor that’s currently making the rounds online, although a version of that (implausible) rumor says the two houses are identical."

http://www.realityblurred.com/realit...xzz0Jlgp5sS0&C

[Captain.Remy]

If this is true then it will be amazing to see some change in the format. I am wondering where the poor house will be tho. It's strange they haven't revealed it yet.

[MarkWaldorf]

Are the people in them photos the new HGs?

[Arneldo]

Originally posted by MarkWaldorf
Are the people in them photos the new HGs?

No, this is from the "media day", similar to the guine pig testing BBUK do.

You can watch the "media day" on youtube...

Youtube video

[MarkWaldorf]

Oh right, thank you! I figured they may be test houseguests.

[Fom]

BBUSA always seems more fascinating too me... every year its original and still an experiment.

[Ruth*Star]

^I agree, I've been watching bbusa for a few years now and i've kinda converted, I've stopped watching our pathetic excuse for a big brother and i watch without fail bbusa.