No I'm not talking about Uncut - but the fact they evicted Bree then tonight let her back in cuz they got it wrong!

Bree back to Big Brother after vote error
July 5, 2004

Big Brother's latest evictee Bree tonight re-entered the race to win $1 million after being wrongly voted off the reality TV show.

Legion Interactive, the company responsible for counting the phone and SMS votes, took responsibility for last night's error, which occurred when a small number of votes were excluded from the tally.

"They have accepted full responsibility and have undertaken to ensure something like this cannot occur again," Network Ten said in a statement.

So, after catching up with friends and family and appearing on last night's live eviction show, which was viewed by more than one million people, Bree was given the option to go back into the house.

"The most important thing is human error cannot be allowed to deprive Bree (of) her chance to win the $1 million prize," Big Brother executive producer Kris Noble said.

"Bree has elected to return to the house and will do so this evening in a live program at 7:30 (tonight)," he said earlier today.

Big Brother producers Endemol Southern Star and Ten said they were disappointed about the mistake.

"We are as disappointed as everyone that this has happened but believe everything that could be done to set the situation right has, and is, being done," Ten's general manager of network programming David Mott said in the statement.

"To ensure no unfair advantage, Bree has been under lock-down since 11pm last night and will be under the same strict rules - not to discuss anything she has heard or seen in the few hours she was outside the Big Brother house - that have applied to intruders."

The network said last night's eviction was one of the closest votes yet, with the 21-year-old Queenslander, who worked in radio promotions before entering the show, cast out.

All housemates were up for nomination but it has been reported that just one per cent of votes separated Bree from fellow contestant Wesley.

Ernst and Young is auditing the votes and the housemate who actually received the most votes last night will be evicted in a live program on Thursday.

"That person's identity will be confirmed as a full and independent audit of the voting tally is completed over the next few days," the network said.

Voting for this week's eviction won't begin until after Thursday night's eviction.

There are three more weeks until the last remaining housemate takes home the $1 million first prize and, in that time, seven housemates will be evicted.

On Sunday, Big Brother will spring a special double eviction on the housemates.

Next week, it is believed producers will evict one housemate on a weeknight and another on the following Sunday, leaving the final three housemates to enjoy one last week in the house.

They didnt get it wrong. They pretended to get it wrong. I bet you channel 10 paid Legion Interactive to 'fuck up'! Ratings, Ratings and Ratings!

btw i reckon ryan will win

Go Catherine!!
Go Paul!!

jt

Trevor.
Ryan seems to be too loud.
You have to be reasonably quiet to win BB.

This what the top story on Ten's 5 o'clock news. Not that they're cross-promoting or anything.

after all these 'stunts' the show is still bloody boring....

Paul should win, he is too cool 4 school, when BB asked him what he thought the big secret was - Paul said and I quote: "The secret Big Brother is that you are my father..." Paul has spent the better part of his time in the house alternately taking the piss out of the show and toying with the housemates

Look at Catherine's face, I don't know but it seems like she's been on the hard stuff! It's a little like Ozzy Osborne.

Trevor is about as funny as Trevor Marmalade - and a shrinking violet doesn't deserve the money

Wesley would be good if he had've opened his mouth during the first 6 weeks of the show, it's only when he took a shot at flatheaded Bree that I started to notice.

LOL, Trevor all the way.

How could they stuff up - it is not like a paper based voting system? I think the real victim is the CEO of Legion in last nights terrible show. It felt staged and rehearsed, as if 10/Southern Star/Endemol had a law suit waiving in the wind at Legion (if the error was legit).

As for this series - just get it over and done with - or to boost the ratings put Pete and Tina in from the Hot House in. :P

I don't think it has been a good year for BB. Gretel and her voting comments is wrong, clearly it is time to go. The cast has been poorly selected, they all go to bed early and the only excitement is a wannabe model getting fresh drunk with Ryan?

The cast has been poorly selected, they all go to bed early and the only excitement is a wannabe model getting fresh drunk with Ryan?

Yeah, they are too conservative and sensitive. In BB of North Europe, there was a chick who had sex with all the male housemates. That's good TV!!

id say compared to last years series the people this time are way more interesting. last year they filled the house with a pack of tools. Ryan or Paul are the only two that deserve to win imo. the house would fall apart if they werent there.

Are there any forumers our there who DO NOT hate that dumb fat arsed chick from Perth ? ;)
I thought she was hot when she first came into the house but then i noticed that here arse is hideous and her complete lack of IQ makes me physcially sick. My dad reckons she "mistakes attention for validation" and I think that's spot on !!!!
Anyway I hope Ryan or Trevor win the thing. I dig Monica badly :)

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/06/1089000148295.html?oneclick=true

Big Brother mishap a winner for Ten
July 6, 2004 - 5:53PM

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Big Brother's Gretel makes it all right with Bree.


Big Brother's voting hiccup has proved a ratings winner for Network Ten.

More than 1.7 million viewers tuned in to see Bree re-enter the race to win the $1 million prize money last night after the reality TV contestant was wrongly ousted from the Big Brother house on Sunday.

That made it the most watched program nationally for the night.

Legion Interactive, the company responsible for counting the phone and SMS votes, took responsibility for the error, which occurred when a small number of votes were excluded from the tally.

"Naturally we are pleased with the ratings of last night, however it was a very stressful day for everyone working on the program and we would never intentionally wish these circumstances upon the individuals involved," a spokeswoman for Ten said.

Ten's ratings were followed by Seven's Today Tonight with 1.69 million viewers and National Nine News with 1.66 million.

In order, the remaining shows in the top 10 last night were Seven News, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, A Current Affair, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, The Great Outdoors, Australian Story and Home and Away.

They didnt get it wrong. They pretended to get it wrong......Ratings, Ratings and Ratings!
More than 1.7 million viewers tuned in
Shows you how pathetically predictable most of us are :P

Would have to be the most boring ,low class group of ppl ever to be put together for this or any other "show".
Dosent say much for the mentality of the average Aussie if they enjoy this trash/gossip TV.And the suckers actually PAY to vote LOL.

Its going to be interesting if something like that happens on the next series of AUstralian Idol.

Would have to be the most boring ,low class group of ppl ever to be put together for this or any other "show".
Dosent say much for the mentality of the average Aussie if they enjoy this trash/gossip TV.And the suckers actually PAY to vote LOL.

You are perfectly entitled to your opinion of this show.

I do not believe you are entitled to insult other people because they happen to enjoy something that you do not.

There are many TV shows I choose not to watch, however I would never denigrate and insult the people who choose to watch and enjoy these shows.

It also shows up in this forum when members with opposing views about the worth of particular buildings are insulted for their beliefs.

We are all different and tolerance of these differences would go a long way to making this a better world.

I was in the spa with my girlfriend. That was a cock up and a half.

Don't care for this poop of a show.

If it was a ratings stunt, they would've booted Ryan then let him back in. This whole nation would be crying if everyone's favourite South Australian in the world got booted, fucken crying.

Hey Barneybuck, name ya mates.

It's true that this year's housemates are bore-rung all falling into line behind party boy Ryan, with the exception of Paul who actually has a different opinion to the Borgified group.

The cock up (LOL dynamoultraclean!)feels staged.

Maybe if they get a fifth season (unlikely) BB should include nudity clauses in all the contracts, they seem to be able to make them do anything else why not this. Future series should see Mike Gold take over the host posse from Gretel 'I'm the star' Kileen, who'll probably be up on statutory rape charges when Saxon's parents find out! Gold is fun to watch, I cought the BB Uplate where Terri was his guest star - the whole ep he basically kept at Terri to 'show us your tits'!!! I'm not joking this guy has his finger on the pulse give him a go at the top job, the way they let Jeff Probst host the Survivor Reunion nowadays.

Look I know a lot of you are getting over anti-teenybopper-corporate-entertainment-i've got too much artistic license to watch this crap-syndrome, but i'm sure you can all pony up 50 cents to vote Monica out of the house, how fucking funny would that be.

Article about US Big Brother which starts it's 5th season this week
Why 'Brother' Stays Big
It gets—and deserves—no respect. But it's a survivor

By Marc Peyser
NewsweekJuly 12 issue -

Crowning the crudest reality-TV show is like singling out the sleaziest politician—once they're rolling and splashing in the gutter, does it really matter who's in the deepest? Still, that didn't stop the Parents Television Council from releasing its worst-of list last month, and the winner will surprise no one: CBS's "Big Brother," the reality show even reality-show addicts shun. This is the program where people hook up so often that tabloids regularly publish stories of children who are conceived on the show, and where a contestant once held a knife to another's throat—while trying to kiss her. It is gross and nasty and juvenile and, very often, utterly boring. Worst of all, CBS airs it three times a week.

But "Big Brother" has also achieved another, more distinguished milestone: this week it enters its fifth season—an astonishing run in the quick-burn world of reality TV. Despite all the attention focused on "Survivor" and "American Idol," "Big Brother" is one of the most successful shows in all of television. With productions in 25 countries, it has been seen by more than 2 billion people. That's billion with a "b." Quite a following for a show that does little more than take a dozen contestants, lock them in a house for three months with 40 or so hidden cameras and watch the insane things they'll do when they're cut off from everything but the prospect of their own fame. People love this stuff. In Poland, one "houseguest," as contestants are called, became so popular he was elected to Parliament after the show ended. "In 'Survivor' you see a lot of constructed situations," says Mike Morley, an executive of Endemol International, the Dutch company that created "Big Brother," "but the characters don't come out. 'Big Brother' is more about the relationships. It's like a living soap opera."

In the United States, "Big Brother" averages 9 million viewers an episode, less than half the take of "Survivor" or "The Apprentice," though it's become a summertime staple for CBS. Since it's on the air so much, "Big Brother" isn't nearly as polished as other reality shows—it's harder to craft a compelling story line when, as is often the case, you've got only 24 hours to do the editing. CBS has kept it around because its audience is one of the network's youngest. When the show works, "Big Brother" is like a dorm on a perpetual all-nighter, where no one's thinking too clearly and anything can happen. "For any good show, you want someone to root for and someone to root against," says CBS executive vice president Kelly Kahl. "That's the great thing about 'Big Brother.' These are people you hang out and make friends with. It's like summer camp." Let the games begin. Again.

I only ever get to see the the Big Brother up late shows, because I work during the 7pm and uncut shows, but I love this show. Mike Goldman (Son of Mr Cityrail) is an absolute crack up, considering he's often got nothing at all to talk about. Considering the up late show could be as lame and nauseating as a 2day FM or Mix FM breakfast show (full offence to anyone who listens to these shows), Mike's show is funny precisely because it's not scripted to within an inch of death. He's very quick off the bat. I think the reason why the up late show is so successful is that his humour clicks very well with the type of people that are more often awake at 1am than not. He'd be one of them.

I missed last nights eviction, there was a fire in my building yesterday which knocked the power out - as well as the gas and hot water.

Who was evicted last night?

jt

Wesley, the bloke who sits around all bloody day and watches the Fitzy Show like everyone else in Australia.

Wesley, the bloke who sits around all bloody day and watches the Fitzy Show like everyone else in Australia.
Good! He was about as exciting as watching paint dry.

jt

The Fitzy Show! (or perhaps Frizie Show) I've never heard it described that way but Yob you are right, I didn't realise there was someone called Wesley in the house until about week 4!

@Tony P - Mike Goldman (thanks 4 the correction) makes sense that he got this show as I'm thinking that Mr Cityrail also does the Voice Over work for Ten! And yes he is infinitely more watchable than Killeen, also the format of uplate lets the story flow and you feel like a fly on the wall literally.