[zakman440]

A bunch of TV execs (including Ruth Wrigley who brought Big Brother to the UK and was the Executive Producer for the first 4 years) lived in the Big Brother house for 24 hours in April for the Edinburgh TV Festival! (Fair warning now - it's quite long and the sound quality goes quite bad for the most part, but it's still an interesting watch).

Youtube video

(Skip to 2:14:11)

UPDATE: It looks like the Edinburgh digital team have clocked onto the fact that they streamed this by accident, and have removed the video! Luckily, bbspy has written a summary of the events, which you can read below.

Celebrity Juice boss Dan Baldwin has been crowned winner of a special Edinburgh International TV Festival edition of Big Brother, which starred the show’s original executive producer Ruth Wrigley.

This year’s 40th edition of the annual industry gathering begun today with ‘Edinburgh Does Big Brother’, as eight telly bigwigs who lived in Britain’s most famous house for 24 hours in April – just before this summer’s series – joined show host Emma Willis to watch the footage.

Among the group was Ruth Wrigley, who was the executive producer of Channel 4’s very first run in 2000. “Big Brother can change the rules at any time. I remember writing that and thinking it was absolutely hilarious,” she remarked in an intro VT. “Not so funny now!”

The other participants were:


Ash Atalla – managing director, Roughcut TV (credits: The Office, The IT Crowd, Trollied, Cuckoo)

Camilla Lewis – CEO of Curve Media (Four Rooms, Grand Designs)

Clive Tulloh – MD, Burning Bright Productions (Joanna Lumley’s Nile, Ross Kemp’s Extreme World)

Dan Baldwin – MD of Hungry Bear media, exec prod Celebrity Juice, husband of Holly Willoughby

Baroness Oona King – Head of Diversity at Channel 4

Rebecca Johnson – agent at ROAR Global, former commissioning editor

Steven D Wright – entertainment producer and columnist for Broadcast magazine


The Big Brother experience began immediately for Camilla, who was given a secret earpiece and set a mission to pretend she was stressed. After taking a fake anti-stress medicine and declaring “I’m a TV legend, get me out of here!”, she was rewarded with a treat basket.

But Steven got off on the wrong foot, as he was punished for taking in a magazine. “While you’re in the house you’ll have no contact with the outside world,” Big Brother warned him.

Later that night, the housemates had to put on a talent show – which Dan won with a hilarious impression of Donald Duck. He also impressed with his dance moves to M.I.A’s ‘Paper Planes’ at the aftershow party – which Emma made him reprise on the Festival stage.

After a good night’s sleep, they were split in to two teams for a tough task – pitching new formats to special guest Zai Bennett, director of Sky Atlantic and former controller of ITV2 and BBC Three.

Each team spun a random format generator to decide their genre, location and talent, and came up with an idea accordingly. Ash, Clive, Stephen and Rebecca formed ‘See You On The Way Down Productions’, and were tasked with creating a fantasy drama set in space starring Kelly Brook.

Setting the scene, Ash said: “Kelly, not wearing much, she’s walking through a wood, she’s had it with men. A spacecraft appears above her and she’s beamed up. Cut to a beach, and that bloke from Poldark (Aidan Turner) with his shirt off, suddenly, boom, he’s up on the spacecraft.

“They’ve been brought to an alien zoo to breed. Kelly Brook plays Stella, it’s called In-ter-stellar.”


Camilla, Dan, Oona and Ruth of ‘Three Girls One Duck’ then pitched their gameshow set at the Eiffel Tower hosted by Emma – but there was much hilarity during the development process when self-confessed “massive Big Brother fan” Oona claimed she didn’t know who the presenter was.

Ash quipped that she fronts “quite a famous show on television”, with Oona asking: “What, like Big Brother? TOWIE? Big Brother’s Little Brother? Big Brother’s Big Brother?”

Dan later had a joke at Emma’s expense when asked what she presents, saying: “anything that Holly leaves” – referring to her replacing Willoughby on BBC One’s The Voice UK.

Just before leaving the house, each housemate chose who they thought was most entertaining in a special round of nominations. Ash received four nominations, Dan three, and Camilla one.

The Festival audience members were asked to vote for their winner from the three nominees – and Dan ended up claiming victory, winning an eye logo trophy. Emma then rounded off the session in true Big Brother tradition by showing the housemates their best bits.

http://www.bbspy.co.uk/cbb16/news/08...#ixzz3k1VZNxzy

[Pete.]

Ruth <3

[Will.]

So this is the true BB16, BB16 is now one of my fav.

[Pete.]

It's an hour long welp

[MB.]

Queen Oona

[MB.]

(wait is Emma currently in Edinburgh then or)

[Liam-]

Camila <3

[mrmattybeck1]

This is more like c4 bb

[MB.]

(yes I actually watched all that)

Get An Eiffel actually sounds better than Prized Apart doesn't it

[Xtopher]

the sound pisses me off but still was a good watch.

[armand.kay]

not a BU production

[armand.kay]

so ruth left in '04/5... ha absence is felt tbh.

[armand.kay]

The bit with Emma was cute if they done reunion shows like this <3

[armand.kay]

Camilla, Ruth and oona slaying me to t'core

[armand.kay]

Honesly shaken by dan's stabbing for MIA

[armand.kay]

Can we talk about how 24hrs of them is more entertaining than all of bb16

[Josiah.]

I know now that we need to bring Ruth back to BB to fix what's broken.

[Morgan.]

I prefer the diary room with the grey/black border

[Cal.]

Ruth come back to BB <3

[mrmattybeck1]

We miss Ruth bring her back

[zakman440]

Damn, they removed the video! If you didn't manage to watch it, you'll have to read the bbspy summary that I've put in the OP.