[Pete.]

Can we PLEASE have All Stars

[Firewire]

omg Julie

it honestly wouldn't be the same without her

[Ross.]

Legend <3

[zakman440]

Some very small details revealed about this today:

A few more details about the forthcoming fall season of Big Brother came during CBS’ TCA session for CBS All Access yesterday. That’s the streaming, subscription-only service where the fall season will be broadcast.

While the TCA session was mostly focused on Star Trek: Discovery, the highly anticipated show with the unfortunate acronym, CBS Interactive president and COO Marc DeBevoise talked briefly about Big Brother. (He also said they’re keeping ST: D : “we are committed to the title”).

He said two new things about Big Brother’s fall season:

- Its “title and details will be forthcoming”

- “we’ll be playing off of the Big Brother live feeds concept, which is how we run the camera feeds of the house 24/7 online for CBS All Access subscribers”

So here is what we know about it so far:

- It will not be season 19 of Big Brother. That will air next summer, followed by season 20 in 2018.

- The show will debut “soon” after the Sept. 21 finale of BB18.

- It will last about 10 weeks, at least a full month shorter than the summer seasons.

- Julie Chen will host.

- The show’s regular producers, Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan, will executive produce this season, too.

- There will be a new title, presumably a subtitle.

- Casting is ongoing.

- The production will “reimagine this format for multi-platform audiences,” as DeBevoise said in an earlier press release.

Read more: http://www.realityblurred.com/realit...ss-big-brother

[Ross.]

This doesn't make any sense, what are they doing

[Firewire]

Sounds like they're axing highlights episodes and just having the eviction

How does that even work

It says they're basing it on the live feed format

[zakman440]

Little more released today:

CBS confirmed in early August that “Big Brother” will be airing a fall edition in 2016 that will air exclusively on CBS All Access.

Now, after speaking with the show’s executive producers and two CBS executives, Zap2it has some info for the “Big Brother” fans wondering just what this new season will look like.

Julie Chen’s involvement

Chen already tweeted that she would be involved in “Big Brother” on All Access, though CBS Interactive president Marc DeBevoise tells us Chen’s role will be a little different than TV viewers are used to.

“The show’s a little different, so the role isn’t exactly the same,” says DeBevoise. “But she will have her lead role in the show … she’s going to be the main person.”

Will there be past houseguests involved in some way?

DeBevoise says they’ve considered having past houseguests involved the way that former contestant Jeff Schroeder currently does interviews for the live feeds, while executive producer Rich Meehan says that they haven’t decided if they will have past players actually inside the house as contestants.

“We’re in the thick of re-imagining [the show], so we haven’t gotten to the point of ‘should we bring back people yet?'” says Meehan, as his co-executive producer Allison Grodner adds, “It could happen, you never know … [but] there’s some legends that maybe you save for summer ‘Big Brother’ in the future, seeing as we just got picked up for two more [seasons].”

What does 're-imagining' mean?

"They're working on what the format is going to be, so it's not going to be exactly how summer is, it's going to be the digital edition," says CBS president Glenn Gellar.

When pressed for details, Grodner says, "It's interesting because it's going to be such a different -- it's still 'Big Brother' but it's live -- the competitions won't be as big and all of that that we do because that's just the way it's going to play out. Competitions can possibly play out longer, people will be able to see everything, it won't be blocked."

Will there be packaged episodes?

"We're working on trying to come up with something so the All Access people that watch the feeds, they can do what they love, but if you're a broadcast watcher, there will be things for you to watch as well, so we're still trying to crack what that is, but we want to be able to appeal to the full audience," says Meehan. "We want to create times and schedules so if people just want to pop on for a key event, they can do that."

"You have to have some catch up [for people who don't watch the feeds]," Grodner explains. "[But] the feeds are now primary. It's a whole new way of looking at it. We're really looking forward to it 'cause it really isn't being done anywhere. It's a bold experiment by CBS and it's the perfect show to do it with."

The feeds will be spiced up

"I think that with a lot of the feeds now, there's a lot of long blocks [when they're down] for our competitions, you see a lot of people asleep -- there will be a reason for people to be awake, how about that?" teases Grodner.

DeBevoise adds that the show will be "without the restrictions of broadcast television to make it a little bit more interesting."

http://zap2it.com/2016/08/big-brothe...thing-we-know/

It basically sounds like they're focusing more on the 'live' aspect of the show (though the lack of episodes sounds worrying for those that can't get access to the feeds).

[Firewire]

This is really bad for international viewers

[Pete.]

All Stars or I won't give this no HL show mess the time of day

[LukeB]

Originally Posted by Pete.

All Stars or I won't give this no HL show mess the time of day

I was going to go [2] but it seems like this online thing will be difficult for international watchers to watch so they can save it for next year etc.

[JerseyWins]

I'm confused *Corey face*

[Calderyon]

http://zap2it.com/2016/08/big-brothe...thing-we-know/

Meaning competitions/challenges/events/ceremonies would be potentially be seen live as they happen and the live stream would never go off/being blocked.

Meaning a true 24/7 stream. In other words, when one of the houseguests says it´s time to pick players for the veto competition or it´s time for the veto competition the feeds wouldn´t be blocked and the event would be streamed as it is.

[LukeB]

Originally Posted by Calderyon

http://zap2it.com/2016/08/big-brothe...thing-we-know/

Meaning competitions/challenges/events/ceremonies would be potentially be seen live as they happen and the live stream would never go off/being blocked.

Meaning a true 24/7 stream. In other words, when one of the houseguests says it´s time to pick players for the veto competition or it´s time for the veto competition the feeds wouldn´t be blocked and the event would be streamed as it is.

This sounds like a good idea and it should happen anyway but they need to make highlight shows as well but since they don't acknowledge international watchers it probs won't happen. It would be okay if other countries can pay to watch it all I would but for obvious reasons I cant It's a money grabber thing so casual viewers from USA will have to pay for live feeds.

[Ross.]

Having the stream on 24/7 sounds good for watching the comps unfold unedited etc but they need to make HL shows for it to work

[reece(:]

Originally Posted by Ross.

Having the stream on 24/7 sounds good for watching the comps unfold unedited etc but they need to make HL shows for it to work

There's nothing you can re-watch if there's no episodes

[MB.]

But how will we know how the comps work if they're not preceded by multiple confessionals explaining the same rules twenty different ways?

[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by MB.

But how will we know how the comps work if they're not preceded by multiple confessionals explaining the same rules twenty different ways?

how will we know people's motivations to win comps without confessionals?

["I'm on the block this week so I have to win this Veto! If I don't win, there's a good chance I could be going home!"]

[Calderyon]

^ They´ll probably do them, but with less quality than before.

[Pete.]

Looks like our USA members will have to be our feeds

[Calderyon]

Originally Posted by Pete.

Looks like our USA members will have to be our feeds

That would potentially mean only Macie and Jersey would be commenting in the episodes/feed threads.

[LukeB]

Originally Posted by Calderyon

That would potentially mean only Macie and Jersey would be commenting in the episodes/feed threads.

big brother to turn into a book?

isn't AarynGriesFan from the us too?

[Calderyon]

Originally Posted by LukeB

big brother to turn into a book?

isn't AarynGriesFan from the us too?

Big Brother USA: I came, I saw, I lost and then won.

Oh yeah, AGF too.

[AarynGriesfan]

Originally Posted by Calderyon

Big Brother USA: I came, I saw, I lost.

Oh yeah, AGF too.

Yeah I live in the U.S.
You guys can probably get a VPN to watch it though.

[Calderyon]

Maybe a VPN could bypass the country blocking?

[AarynGriesfan]

I think they will come up with some type of show because other wise the diary room would be pointless. And they still need to do some type of eviction show. Its gonna be weird/ hard to pull this off properly and it might take some trial by error to figure out the best way to do it. It sounds like a cool idea but it might end up to be a crap so will see I guess.