[dupin]

Which of the five launch night twists I've devised do you think would the best to have in my Big Brother 9 project?

Option One: Two’s company.
Two’s company. Every housemate will know another housemate, as a friend, a relative, a spouse, whatever. Before entering, they will be told that they must keep it a secret that they know each other, or they will be evicted. They are told that the reason they are told before, is so that they will enter at random times to avoid suspicion – however, all pairs will believe that they are the only pair, and will not know that every single housemate is also carrying out the same secret mission. Big Brother will tell housemates on Wednesday night that there is a pair of housemates who know each other – they must choose who they think the pair are, and those two will face eviction.

Option Two: Big Brother's Secret Spy
Option Two: Big Brother’s Secret Spy. Before launch night, the producers ask the line up a series of questions to determine who is most able to keep secrets, lie, and betray people (or maybe least, if they wanted to create more entertainment, but take a risk). They will enter the house first, where Big Brother will call them to the diary room, and tell them that they were handpicked by a test to become “Big Brother’s Secret Spy”. Life in the house is not easy for the Secret Spy, as they will have to fool the other housemates into believing that they are a completely different person than they really are. Big Brother will tell them the name and location of the person they must be, and will tell them their likes and dislikes. Over the week, the secret spy will take part in several secret missions, and doing things voted for via the website, influencing everything that goes on the house, in order to pass the task, and remain in the house.
Another possibility for this would be to have an actor/spy, like “America’s Player” in BB8US, carrying out things throughout the whole series.
Option Two: Big Brother’s Secret Spy. Before launch night, the producers ask the line up a series of questions to determine who is most able to keep secrets, lie, and betray people (or maybe least, if they wanted to create more entertainment, but take a risk). They will enter the house first, where Big Brother will call them to the diary room, and tell them that they were handpicked by a test to become “Big Brother’s Secret Spy”. Life in the house is not easy for the Secret Spy, as they will have to fool the other housemates into believing that they are a completely different person than they really are. Big Brother will tell them the name and location of the person they must be, and will tell them their likes and dislikes. Over the week, the secret spy will take part in several secret missions, and doing things voted for via the website, influencing everything that goes on the house, in order to pass the task, and remain in the house.
Another possibility for this would be to have an actor/spy, like “America’s Player” in BB8US, carrying out things throughout the whole series.

Option Three: The Lonely Housemate
Big Brother puts the first housemate into the house, and then around fourteen others into a makeshift house – the makeshift house is a fair distance from the main house (neither house can hear one another), and has similar décor to the real house, except slightly less well-done. The one housemate in the main house will not be told anything about the makeshift house next by, or the makeshift housemates, but they will be able to watch the lonely housemates every move. Over the week, the lonely housemate will make, without knowing, decisions on which makeshift housemates will join him – overall, eleven of the makeshift housemates will join him. The remaining three in the makeshift house will believe that they are up for eviction, but in fact, they are the ones who will choose which three of the housemates in the main house will be up – after the eviction, they too, enter the house. This idea could be changed, but the main point is that there is one housemate alone in the house on launch night.

Option Four: A tale of two teams
Twelve housemates enter the house on launch night – when they arrive, they are directed towards two doors, one with “1” on it, and one with “2” on it. They decide which one to go into, and in each room is an identical holding room, with sofas and a table with drinks and food on. Once one room has six people in it, the remaining housemates will all have to go to the other, so there are six people in each. Big Brother asks for one housemate in Room 1, and one housemate in Room 2 to come to the diary room – once there, the other housemates all watch it on plasma screens, as they are told that all the housemates in Room 1 are a team, and all housemates in Room 2, are a team. Being in a team is very important – teams will be fighting every week, for many things – in tasks every week, only one team can win the luxury budget, and in Saturday Live tasks, teams will be fighting for parts of the £250,000. The winner will eventually win whatever their team has earned together over the course of the series. If someone in a team breaks the rules, the whole team will be punished.
The two teams twist will run for the whole series, or maybe just for a few weeks, with changes and twists each week, but it will not have any effect on nominations or evictions, except for in week one, where only one team will face eviction, based on something I haven’t yet decided, and one will be evicted.
Things that will change over time will be swaps within teams, the occasional nominations twist, and so on.

Option Five: Battle of the ages.
Half of the twelve launch night housemates are below twenty years old, and half are over fifty. There is no twist, exactly, but it would make the social experiment a lot different – do they mingle, or make groups? It’ll make the whole series a lot more interesting.
Potentially, the young housemates and the old housemates could be tested in six challenges, three that incorperate stereotypical young people's talents, and three that incorperate stereotypical old people's talents.

[Captain.Remy]

"The Lonely Housemate" is a brilliant idea...evil and cruel hahaha !

[dupin]

Why was the poll taken down?

[Jack]

Originally posted by dupin
Why was the poll taken down?

All polls have been taken down because there was some forum glitch thing earlier.

[Billy]

Battle of the ages

[davrosincydonia]

lonely housemate

[Sam!]

I like all but i think the age one would be better if it was under 30 and over 31.

[dupin]

But that wouldn't be a very diverse age gap would it?

[Sam!]

Yeh but then you would have no 20s to 50s

[dupin]

I'm sure they'd be brought in at a later stage - but your idea wouldn't actually make any different to the launch at all. It'd be an interesting experiment to see how that dramatic age gap affects the house.

[Simple_Plan]

I Think Option 1 Twos Company && Option 3 Lonely Housemate

Option 1 The Best Though

[dupin]

Thanks BB-Rod-BB. I'm not sure which to do...

[bbcanada]

option 4 reminds me to much of survivor. Otherwise good job

[Benji]

i love Option One.

I think it will make for a different big brother.

Or to keep with the "original" format, just have 2 couples (could be brother and sister, husband and wife, mother son, etc.) that have to keep there secret among the normal single housemates.

[Loukas]

LOVE ALL OF THEM

but mostly the first one

[dupin]

Thanks guys - it seems to be between 1 and 3 at the moment, or maybe even 5.

[Loukas]

your welcome dupin

well done there great

[Callum]

I like the sound of number 1) I think it could work well and provide good entertainment in the public eye.

[dupin]

Thanks Callum.

I think I'm going to go with number 3, but there's a still a couple of days where I'll listen to what everyone has to say before I make my mind up.

[:)tom:)]

the tams would be good

[Glenn.]

I could see option one happen

[dupin]

I'm still not completely sure - number one seems to be the most popular though.

[~Beachbum~]

option 1...but option 3 as ong as the higher age was 35 not 50, otherwise wed just have a bunch of walking lesleys.
then bring in the people aged in between affter a few weeks.

[cujo-man]

Originally posted by dupin
Which of the five launch night twists I've devised do you think would the best to have in my Big Brother 9 project?

Option One: Two’s company.
Two’s company. Every housemate will know another housemate, as a friend, a relative, a spouse, whatever. Before entering, they will be told that they must keep it a secret that they know each other, or they will be evicted. They are told that the reason they are told before, is so that they will enter at random times to avoid suspicion – however, all pairs will believe that they are the only pair, and will not know that every single housemate is also carrying out the same secret mission. Big Brother will tell housemates on Wednesday night that there is a pair of housemates who know each other – they must choose who they think the pair are, and those two will face eviction.

Option Two: Big Brother's Secret Spy
Option Two: Big Brother’s Secret Spy. Before launch night, the producers ask the line up a series of questions to determine who is most able to keep secrets, lie, and betray people (or maybe least, if they wanted to create more entertainment, but take a risk). They will enter the house first, where Big Brother will call them to the diary room, and tell them that they were handpicked by a test to become “Big Brother’s Secret Spy”. Life in the house is not easy for the Secret Spy, as they will have to fool the other housemates into believing that they are a completely different person than they really are. Big Brother will tell them the name and location of the person they must be, and will tell them their likes and dislikes. Over the week, the secret spy will take part in several secret missions, and doing things voted for via the website, influencing everything that goes on the house, in order to pass the task, and remain in the house.
Another possibility for this would be to have an actor/spy, like “America’s Player” in BB8US, carrying out things throughout the whole series.
Option Two: Big Brother’s Secret Spy. Before launch night, the producers ask the line up a series of questions to determine who is most able to keep secrets, lie, and betray people (or maybe least, if they wanted to create more entertainment, but take a risk). They will enter the house first, where Big Brother will call them to the diary room, and tell them that they were handpicked by a test to become “Big Brother’s Secret Spy”. Life in the house is not easy for the Secret Spy, as they will have to fool the other housemates into believing that they are a completely different person than they really are. Big Brother will tell them the name and location of the person they must be, and will tell them their likes and dislikes. Over the week, the secret spy will take part in several secret missions, and doing things voted for via the website, influencing everything that goes on the house, in order to pass the task, and remain in the house.
Another possibility for this would be to have an actor/spy, like “America’s Player” in BB8US, carrying out things throughout the whole series.

Option Three: The Lonely Housemate
Big Brother puts the first housemate into the house, and then around fourteen others into a makeshift house – the makeshift house is a fair distance from the main house (neither house can hear one another), and has similar décor to the real house, except slightly less well-done. The one housemate in the main house will not be told anything about the makeshift house next by, or the makeshift housemates, but they will be able to watch the lonely housemates every move. Over the week, the lonely housemate will make, without knowing, decisions on which makeshift housemates will join him – overall, eleven of the makeshift housemates will join him. The remaining three in the makeshift house will believe that they are up for eviction, but in fact, they are the ones who will choose which three of the housemates in the main house will be up – after the eviction, they too, enter the house. This idea could be changed, but the main point is that there is one housemate alone in the house on launch night.

Option Four: A tale of two teams
Twelve housemates enter the house on launch night – when they arrive, they are directed towards two doors, one with “1” on it, and one with “2” on it. They decide which one to go into, and in each room is an identical holding room, with sofas and a table with drinks and food on. Once one room has six people in it, the remaining housemates will all have to go to the other, so there are six people in each. Big Brother asks for one housemate in Room 1, and one housemate in Room 2 to come to the diary room – once there, the other housemates all watch it on plasma screens, as they are told that all the housemates in Room 1 are a team, and all housemates in Room 2, are a team. Being in a team is very important – teams will be fighting every week, for many things – in tasks every week, only one team can win the luxury budget, and in Saturday Live tasks, teams will be fighting for parts of the £250,000. The winner will eventually win whatever their team has earned together over the course of the series. If someone in a team breaks the rules, the whole team will be punished.
The two teams twist will run for the whole series, or maybe just for a few weeks, with changes and twists each week, but it will not have any effect on nominations or evictions, except for in week one, where only one team will face eviction, based on something I haven’t yet decided, and one will be evicted.
Things that will change over time will be swaps within teams, the occasional nominations twist, and so on.

Option Five: Battle of the ages.
Half of the twelve launch night housemates are below twenty years old, and half are over fifty. There is no twist, exactly, but it would make the social experiment a lot different – do they mingle, or make groups? It’ll make the whole series a lot more interesting.
Potentially, the young housemates and the old housemates could be tested in six challenges, three that incorperate stereotypical young people's talents, and three that incorperate stereotypical old people's talents.

Hate option one. Lets not try and stray too far away from the original BB's concept please. Its just too gimmicky.

I definitely think Option 3 would be fantastic though!

[Matt]

I think number three sounds the best personally, but number four sounds good too!