Two amusing but YouTube clips illustrate Big Brother 10 houseguest Dan’s relationship with the show’s producers/Big Brother voice button pushers. They’re just like overbearing but occasionally helpful parents, demanding he get out of bed and rescuing him from awkward conversations. This morning around 10:45 a.m. PT, they forced him to get out of bed (did… continue reading
“Dumb old man” Jerry falls into the pool
Those people not fleeing a hurricane may spend Labor Day weekend in or by their pool. The same is true of the Big Brother 10 houseguests, particularly Jerry, who fell into the house’s tiny pool Sunday afternoon while trying to read some kind of message in the sky. Old man Jerry’s splashdown is the funniest… continue reading
Julie Chen lies to evictee Michelle, who will be joined in the jury house by Ollie
Last night was Big Brother 10‘s double-eviction night, which always challenges the houseguests and the crew, particularly Julie Chen. These episodes always feel on the verge of falling apart, even more than the normal live shows. But there are just a few of those live shows left, as Julie Chen announced the season will end… continue reading
Keesha was topless in a horror movie
Keesha Smith, who’s currently a houseguest on Big Brother 10, once acted in a movie, The Fear Chamber, as her IMDB profile revealed. As it turns out, she was topless in that movie, and as B-Side Blog shares, there’s now a clip of Keesha in her starring role as Nancy, a woman who’s in the… continue reading
Ollie freaks out after stupid Dan makes the “worst deal in Big Brother history”
The Big Brother 10 house has apparently eaten away all of Dan’s brain, because he’s quickly proven himself to be a dumbass. He basically alienated and pissed off everyone in the house, including his own alliance, following his moronic decision to let Ollie make nearly all of the HOH decisions for Dan. And after he… continue reading
April leaves the Big Brother house but may still give us the show’s first-ever baby
Although she still has no idea why people dislike her–after all, she’s done “nothing, except do dishes and make cakes and give people stuff,” she told us–April was voted out of the Big Brother 10 house. She’ll take her delusion to the jury house, and it’s not a minute too soon. On Tuesday, however, I… continue reading
Big Brother 10’s ratings increase against the Olympics even as other shows drop
NBC’s Olympics coverage from Beijing has ruled prime-time television for more than a week now, as it pulls in roughly the same number of viewers most nights that American Idol does for its finales. Yesterday, NBC said that its “10-day average primetime viewership is 29.8 million”; 31.66 million people watched Idol‘s finale. But one show… continue reading
Big Brother After Dark includes legal disclaimer required of pornographic movies
One side effect of returning to the east coast after a month on the west coast was adapting to the time change. Mostly, it meant that I’d try to go to sleep at normal hours, but instead be awake until 3 or 4 a.m. And on more than one occasion, I found myself watching Big… continue reading
Power switches in the Big Brother 10 house, ensuring it’ll stay the best season since BB6
After Thursday’s Big Brother 10 eviction episode, I was convinced that the vote would lead to alliance versus alliance drama, and it certainly did. Jerry’s lectures, whiny tirades, and oddly disproportionate animosity toward Dan were only the start of the drama, which included a ridiculous fight that wasn’t quite as involved as the last group… continue reading
Leaked diary room footage offers insight into reality TV interviewing process
Big Brother 10 houseguest Michelle’s entire interview session with a show producer was accidentally broadcast. While Diary Room audio has previously been leaked, now more than 20 minutes of raw footage are online on YouTube, captured by Big Brother Klub (the audio and video aren’t synchronized, so the videos make for a better listen than… continue reading
Jessie’s interviews include a defense of his anti-Semitism and unintelligible, illogical answers
Jessie Godderz, the most recent Big Brother 10 evictee and the victim of viewers’ votes, has done a round of interviews with web sites and media outlets, and collectively they seem like some kind of punishment for the people who suffered through them–and for those who read them. His answers are essentially nonsensical, and it’s… continue reading
Fight and f-word gives Big Brother 10 its highest ratings yet
Tuesday’s episode of Big Brother 10, with its spectacularly entertaining fight, gave the show its highest ratings of the season. Overall, 6.4 million viewers watched, which is still less than the 7.3 million who watched ABC’s Wipeout‘s recap episode, but represents “a season high” for CBS’ series according to Variety. Last night, for Jessie’s surprise… continue reading
Jessie evicted thanks to America’s vote
Because of America’s Player vote, Jessie was evicted from the Big Brother 10 house last night, which already created a significant rift in the house and set up alliance versus alliance, always the most fun form of the game. It already had the effect of giving the HOH competitions much more significance, when Libra and… continue reading
Snowballing arguments leave nearly all Big Brother 10 houseguests fighting
There have been some intense, crazy-ass, sometimes violent fights on Big Brother during its nine previous seasons, but I’m not quite sure any of them matches the one that aired last night in terms of sheer insanity and entertainment. And it was just a condensed version of what took hours to unfold Friday night. The… continue reading
Steven’s sleeveless t-shirt auctioned for $1,075
Once they’re outside of the house, Big Brother houseguests seem to participate in three primary activities: blogging on MySpace, auctioning their stuff off on eBay to try to make the money they didn’t win on the show, and showing up to host challenges on new seasons of Big Brother. If they’re extremely lucky, they’ll show… continue reading