RealityBBQ – Big Brother 12 on CBS and Reality TV News, Rumors, Spoilers

EW: After Annie was booted, why didn’t you let the house continue to believe that the saboteur was still there?
Allison Grodner The saboteur may not be dead after all! You’ll find out more tonight (July 29). Make sure you watch! We loved this twist. We were hoping it would go longer. But we don’t rig this show. People accuse us of rigging this show, people accuse us of trying to manipulate things. We don’t! We picked someone who was playing her own game, who was a huge fan, who had everything going for her. It wasn’t the saboteur (twist) that got her out, it was her own silly game play – which she did not have to overdo. We would have loved for it to go longer, but it didn’t. And the summer goes on! We ran this risk on every twist we’ve played…

Rich Meehan Twin twist, America’s Player…

Grodner Everything had this same risk associated with it. It is what it is with the game. It gave us a jolt, it was fun. But it’s not over yet!

Why are you sequestering all the houseguests this year?
Grodner We’ve done that in seasons past because of the expect the unexpected. That might happen. It’s become a safety net for us. If it plays into something, it plays into something. It may or may not.

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In a new low for reality TV, the producers are allowing a “houseguest” to lie to other contestants that his wife is suffering from melorheostosis, a disease that strikes the young, bringing a lifetime of disability, deformity and pain.

On Wednesday night, despicable contestant Matt Hoffman snarked in his private video confession that he’d been spreading the word that his wife was striken with melorheostosis and that he was on the show to win the $500,000 first prize for an expensive operation.

Matt says he first heard of the disease on a cable TV show and was simply spouting back what he could remember. The Melorheostosis Association, for one, isn’t laughing at this clever ruse. Because the disease is so rare, there is little money for research and very little hope.

Yet, Hoffman squawked that, “If lies and sympathy get me the half million, I swear I’ll make a sizeable donation to the foundation for this disease just for letting me use it and exploit it a little bit.” But no, they didn’t let you.

CBS responded by saying, ” ‘Big Brother’ is a reality show about watching a group of people who have no privacy 24/7 . . . At times, the houseguests make comments, reveal prejudices and other beliefs that we do not condone.”

Right. Meantime, Harper wants a sitdown with CBS brass. Education is everything.

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From TVGrapeVine.

Not much, but the interview contains tidbits on number of houseguests, future seasons and a house theme.

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There’s just one week to go before “Big Brother” ends one of its most successful seasons ever– and, not surprisingly, emotions among fans are intense right now.

For many, the dominant feeling is one of disappointment: Only one member of Team Jeff– aka the good guys– remains. Michelle was evicted tonight, leaving Jordan all by herself to carry the banner for the team viewers seemed to love the most.

Meanwhile, one despised player (Natalie) and one annoying player (Kevin) are still in contention for the $500,000, and odds are one of them will win it.

“‘Big Brother’ is like watching a sporting event,” exec producer Allison Grodner told TV MoJoe in our weekly post-eviction chat. “You go all season with your favorite team, and sometimes they make it. And sometimes they don’t. It’s very real.”

The fact that there’s a very real chance many viewers will be bummed by the outcome of the game only serves to highlight just how little “Brother” producers are able to stage manage the game.

“If the game were fixed, it’s very possible America’s favorites might very well be in it,” Grodner laughs.

One thing Grodner won’t comment on: Insider reports that producers have decided to shake up the structure of the final days of the game. Source
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Has Jessie’s roughhousing with Lydia and Natalie gone too far on Big Brother 11? That’s what some fans think after watching the late-night feeds. Viewers have peppered BB message boards with complaints that Jessie crossed a line during recent wrestling matches with the two young women, especially since a medic was called to check up on the diminutive Natalie. Executive Producer Allison Grodner told EW exclusively that while she takes the safety of the houseguests seriously, Jessie and the women “engage in (the roughhousing) consensually” and any action he made toward the woman “was not intentionally malicious or abusive.”

“We’re monitoring it,” said Grodner. “We’ve talked to Natalie and Lydia and Jessie about it in the diary room. We’re not looking to hide anything. Everyone who needed to be warned has been warned.”

Grodner confirmed that a medic looked at Natalie after Jessie pushed her in the leg.  (more…)

Allison gave a bit more detail about the cliques twist and how that will play out. “This is still, I want to stress, an individual game,” Grodner said. “But what we’ve created is a system is a system in which you want to vie to be in the in-crowd. If your group, if your clique, is in the in-crowd for the week by winning Head of Household… then it ensures your saftey for that week because you cannot nominate a member of your own clique. But ultimately… when you vote, you’re voting as an individual. So if it’s a member of your own clique and you haven’t ‘clicked,’ so to speak, you can still kick them out.”

“Have and Have nots”
“This season we’re going to be revealing to the houseguests, instead of your traditional food competition, we have a ‘Have and Have Not’ competition,” she said. “There will be a group, that if they lose this competition, will be subject to the worse living conditions that we’ve probably had in Big Brother. That will include living in this really sparse, horribly cold, cold room. And having to take cold showers and, of course, subject to that week’s food restriction. This is like living on a block of ice in the middle of a room under bright lights that never turn off.”

The viewers will have some control over the food restriction:
“Starting in the second week… we’re going to put it to the vote, for the viewers to decide what the food restriction is,” she said. “Now the people on food restrictions, basically the ‘have nots,’ will of course be able to have slop and other food condiments that in the house as always. But they will add to that a food restriction that America has chosen. So that will be their main staple. Whether it be sardines, or lollipops, or chocolate, or squid, or whatever it is, we will put it out there for the viewers to suggest and vote.”

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Allison Grodner (Executive Producer) was interviewed this morning on the John Jay & Rich Show and spilled a few interesting tidbits. You can listen to the full interview here.

Here’s a rundown of the more interesting stuff from the interview.

- Allison Grodner says that there were alot of interesting people in the house for media day who work in television, print, internet media, etc. “Some fun people, really interesting.” She says that the footage will be released shortly. This means we should be seeing the new house soon.

- Julie Chen will be hosting all season, despite her pregnancy. Allison jokes that Chenbot’s baby will be the surprise 14th houseguest. (Interesting that she mentions 14 houseguests since we’ve been told there will only be 12…)

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“The next installment of the Windows ad campaign, starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, is scheduled to air tonight during the CBS show “Big Brother” (8 p.m.). This one follows the debut last week, which got mixed reviews — at best — but also lots of attention.”

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“We learned this week that Big Brother 10 boasts the oldest cast ever (a 75-year-old great grandpa and a 53-year-old beauty salon owner!). But what is really in store for this crack-brained group of players? Well, for one thing, BB Executive Producer Allison Grodner says the show (still hosted by Julie Chen, pictured) is celebrating the franchise’s 10th anniversary by going old school with the format (translation: no more secret couples).”

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“When “Big Brother” returns to CBS this summer for its 10th season, the unscripted series goes back to its classic format: a group of people who do not know each other live together in the house and their every movement is monitored by dozens of cameras and microphones strategically placed to make sure nothing escapes the eyes of the viewers.”

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Allison Grodner, the Executive Producer of Big Brother spoke with [Welovebigbrother.com] and confirmed information about Big Brother 10.

In this exclusive WeLoveBigBrother.com interview, Allison gives us a preview of the upcoming season’s twists and secrets. Some of the topics we covered are:

-Houseguests coming to town soon
-Houseguests will be going through press interviews soon
-Cleaing crew in the house right now
-“Absolutedly all strangers” with diverse points of view and backgrounds
-All different ages
-Twists and turns down the road
-Live audiences will involve fans more than audiences in Season 1
-13 houseguests with extreme points of view
-House represents the “places and eras” that the cast comes from
-The game starts before the houseguests even go in the house on premier night

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