LE DOMAINE BLEU

La version britannique de Big Brother présentée sur Channel 4 a pris fin "définitivement" le vendredi 10 septembre 2010.

Channel 4 avait déjà annoncé dès 2009 que la saison 2010 serait la dernière saison ever de Big Brother.

Seulement, selon certaines rumeurs, la série pourrait renaître sur une chaîne concurrente.

J'ouvre donc ce topic pour y mettre les différentes nouvelles qui annoncent un retour possible de Big Brother UK.

Aussi, si vous tombez sur une rumeur, n'hésitez pas à la poster ici.

Richard Desmond in talks to buy Big Brother for Channel 5
Daily Star owner understood to be in negotiations with Endemol to move Big Brother after Channel 4 run ends next month

James Robinson
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 25 August 2010 15.52 BST

Richard Desmond is in talks to take Big Brother to Channel 5 next year. The show's run on Channel 4 is to end next month, with last night's Big Brother 11 final to be followed by two and a half weeks of Ultimate Big Brother to find the most popular housemate from the past 10 years. Talks are now said to be in progress between Channel 5 and Big Brother producer Endemol UK. However, it is understood the full details of the deal are still to be finalised and no announcement is imminent. Northern & Shell and Channel 5 declined to comment.

Desmond has publicly declared his interest in buying the series, despite the fact that many observers believe it is a tired format.

Channel 4 announced last year the 11th series would be the last. It will end with the Ultimate Big Brother final on Friday, 10 September. Last night's Big Brother 11 winner Josie Gibson has been joined by 11 former housemates, including Ulrika Jonsson, Brian Dowling, Nick Bateman and Nadia Almada, for the show's final fling on Channel 4.

Northern & Shell, Desmond's privately owned media group, originally teamed up with Endemol with the intention of mounting a joint bid for the UK's fourth largest terrestrial channel. But Desmond eventually bought Channel 5 last month from pan-European broadcaster RTL for £103.5m without the need for a partner. Channel 4 signed a three-year contract with Endemol for Big Brother in 2006, which was said at the time to be worth up to £70m. The first three-year deal Channel 4 signed with Endemol for Big Brother in 2002 was understood to have cost the broadcaster up to £40m.

Desmond is likely to pay far less than that. One senior TV industry insider said that £30m might be a more realistic figure now that the show's popularity has waned. Big Brother's ratings peaked in 2002 with series three, won by Kate Lawler. The series averaged 5.3 million viewers, with 9.2 million for the final. Average viewing figures for the main summer series remained over 4 million for the next four years, before beginning to dip in 2007 after the Shilpa Shetty race row engulfed Celebrity Big Brother. In 2009 Big Brother 10 averaged about 2.2 million. This year's final Big Brother series on Channel 4 has seen an improvement in ratings, but it is still nowhere near the show's pre-2007 heyday.

Endemol has spent heavily on the Big Brother house and related studio facilities at Elstree in Hertfordshire and the show also employs a large dedicated staff. Closing or mothballing the studio and moving employees to other parts of the business would be costly and Endemol is likely to need a swift decision on whether the show will continue next year on Channel 5.

Desmond's newspaper and magazine empire, which also includes the Daily Star, OK! and New!, would be free to promote the show heavily if he can agree terms with Endemol, providing it with valuable free publicity. Under cross-ownership rules, he is barred from promoting his print titles on Channel 5.

He is likely to reinstate Celebrity Big Brother and may extend the main show's 13-week run if he can secure a deal.

Channel 5 is heavily dependent on imported US shows including the CSI franchise and its spin-off series, but it has so far failed to produce a homegrown hit with the clout of Big Brother. Big Brother would instantly become the broadcaster's biggest asset. If a deal can be concluded, the challenge will be to prove that there is still an appetite for the show among the viewing public.

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Celeb Big Brother Will Return To Channel 4

DAILY STAR SUNDAY
12th September 2010

CELEBRITY Big Brother will return on Channel 4 in January, the Daily Star Sunday has learned.

The star-studded version of Big Brother will be resurrected for a final run before the channel axes the reality format for good.

The move is likely to shock fans who saw host Davina McCall bid farewell to the show on Friday night. But bosses hinted it would be back after the final voiceover announced: “Big Brother will get back to you.”

Last night a show source said: “Channel 4 has been really pleased with the ratings and amount of coverage for this year’s Big Brother and Ultimate Big Brother, so they don’t want to let it go just yet.

“It will probably look a bit strange after everyone thought it was the last we’d see of it on Channel 4 but it will be worth it financially for them to have one final run.”

The series is expected to last three weeks with bosses planning to splash out on high-profile celebs. This year’s Celebrity Big Brother pulled in an average of 3.7million viewers compared to around 2.7million a night for Big Brother 11.

The show source added: “The celebrity version always comes up trumps in the ratings. And there’s always a lot more drama because they all have big egos.”

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Big Brother House Open Until September 2013

13th September 2010
By Keir Mudie

BIG Brother bosses sparked speculation about the show’s future after getting permission to keep the house open for another three years.

Friday’s spectacular finale in which Brian Dowling, 32, was crowned “ultimate housemate” was officially the last ever episode.

But planning documents submitted to Hertsmere Council, which covers Elstree Studios where the BB house stands, show bosses at TV company Endemol want to keep the house itself open until September 2013.

The move sent internet forums into overdrive. Joshbrookman16 wrote: “Looks like Big Brother has been reincarnated.”

Councillors granted planning permission after discussing whether an “increased number of events” at the house would cause any problems.

The decision will fuel rumours Channel 4 may produce another Celebrity Big Brother in the New Year. And sources say Channel Five remains favourite to take over the summer series.

A BB spokesman said: “We are currently looking into a number of options for the site.”

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Big Brother talks stall between Channel 5 and Endemol UK
Channel 5 owner Richard Desmond thought to be looking at alternatives including new reality format from John De Mol

Mark Sweney
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 September 2010 07.17 BST

Discussions between Richard Desmond and Endemol UK over acquiring the rights to Big Brother are understood to have stalled, with the Channel 5 owner thought to be looking at alternatives including a new reality format from the hit show's co-creator John De Mol, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.

MediaGuardian.co.uk reported a month ago that Desmond was in talks with Endemol about taking Big Brother to Channel 5. However, it is understood that the negotiations have ground to a halt just as a deal was close to being signed. "The deal was quite far down the track, it was virtually agreed and then the negotiations went cold," said one source with knowledge of the situation.

Another source said Channel 5 had also held discussions with De Mol, the co-creator of Big Brother, about buying a new format called The Golden Cage. The format, which is an observational entertainment series, is thought to have the potential to run all year round. The Golden Cage was the original concept and working title for what became Big Brother, which De Mol co-created at Endemol in the late 1990s.

The name has now been revived for a different reality format made by De Mol's new production company, Talpa Media. The new format puts 10 contestants in a luxury villa living the life of millionaires for an indefinite period, with no nominations or voting. Contestants either walk out or are evicted for behaviour deemed unacceptable by the producers and the last one remaining gets a large cash prize. The format ran for more than 18 months on Dutch TV. Talpa describes The Golden Cage as "the first reality soap... the world's first open-ended unscripted reality series".

The source did not believe that Channel 5 would commission both shows and thought that a Big Brother deal may not be revived. "Channel 4 comprehensively ended Big Brother, the timing of the deal should have been done on the day it was finally done on Channel 4 for publicity purposes," said the source. "But as far as I understand it negotiations failed."

Desmond is said to be planning to announce as many as five major new programming commissions in the next month or so, to significantly bolster Channel 5's programming lineup going into next year. Speculation that Desmond would quickly snap up Big Brother, which finished its decade-long run on Channel 4 earlier this month, to boost Channel 5's sagging ratings has been rife since the owner of Express Newspapers completed a £103m takeover of the broadcaster in July. Desmond has committed about £1.5bn over the next five years to "go toe-to-toe with the biggest players in the TV world" with Big Brother seen as a timely fit that still pulled in audiences seen as a respectable size for Channel 5's scale.

Endemol is understood to have extended its contract with Elstree, the studio where Big Brother is filmed. De Mol, who originally co-founded Endemol in the 1990s, was linked with a bid for Channel 5 through his investment company Cyrte Investments and Greek broadcaster Antenna. The theory was that De Mol would provide content for Channel 5 if the bid was successful. He may yet still do so.

Endemol and a spokeswoman for Richard Desmond and Channel 5 declined to comment.

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Comme il était déjà mentionné dans l'article précédent, ça semble se confirmer que Big Brother ne reviendra pas, mais sera remplacé par un autre concept similaire qui s'appelle The Golden Cage. Ça reste à voir si ça va se concrétiser...

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Jonathan Ross Gets Job On New Big Brother
Jonathan Ross on his new venture, Big Brother replacement, The Golden Cage

26th November 2010
By Katie Begley

JONATHAN Ross has signed a multi-million pound deal to host the new Big Brother. The controversial chat show host has joined forces with Endemol, the firm behind Channel 4’s hit reality show. Under the contract, believed to be worth more than £10million, Ross and his company Hotsauce TV, will make new shows to be broadcast in the UK.

The first, to be screened in the next 18 months, will be Big Brother’s replacement The Golden Cage.

Jonathan, 50, said: “I am beyond excited to be working with the biggest and best production company in the world.”

Contestants will move in to a luxury villa and live millionaire lifestyles, competing to win trips outside the house until they either leave, are voted out by their fellow “millionaires” or are kicked out by producers. The last person standing wins the house and a huge cash prize, which grows over the course of the show.

U.K.'s Channel Four Won't Be Looking for Another 'Big Brother' TV Series
By Jonathan Browning
Bloomberg - Dec 13, 2010

Channel Four Television Corp., the U.K. publicly-owned broadcaster that’s commercially funded, won’t attempt to replace the “Big Brother” television series with a similar show as the contract ends.

The broadcaster, which opted not to renew the rights deal for the show after 2010, will aim for a “more balanced” schedule, with a number of “quite big hits,” Chief Executive Officer David Abraham told a committee of U.K. lawmakers, according to a statement today.

“Big Brother was the kind of show that happens in the television industry once in a decade and we should not be looking for the next Big Brother,” Abraham said.

The series, which started in the U.K. in 2000, reached more than 10 million viewers. The series showed the life of a group of contestants who live isolated from the outside world in a house monitored by cameras and microphones. London-based Channel Four will trial new programs at the beginning of next year, Abraham said.

The lawmakers said today they “do underestimate the size of the challenge facing Channel 4” as it tries to retain ratings.

Il y a peut-être encore de l'espoir.

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C5 and Endemol in advanced talks over Big Brother deal
29 January, 2011 | By Lisa Campbell

Talks between Channel 5’s Richard Desmond and Endemol UK are at an advanced stage as the two sides attempt to hammer out a deal for Big Brother.

It is understood that negotiations re-opened in recent months after collapsing in September and that although nothing has been signed, a deal could be weeks away. The deal could be for as long as five years , although it is understood this could be reduced if certain performance targets are not met. Both parties declined to comment.

Northern & Shell owner, Desmond, placed the reality show at the top of his shopping list when he bought the channel from RTL in July for £103.5m, announcing a “multi-million pound” investment in content. He is keen to tap into the cross-promotional opportunities provided by his TV and publishing operation and would be able to give the format a marketing push through his titles including the Daily Express, OK! and New!

He is also keen to put C5 back on the map and is relaunching the channel on 14 February. It is believed he will extend the reality series’ 13-week run and will bring back Celebrity Big Brother . However, Desmond failed to strike a deal with the Big Brother producer in September after battling over price. He was hoping to air the show at a fraction of the original price paid by Channel 4 which signed a three-year contract with Endemol in 2006, believed to be worth up to £70m.

Big Brother ended its run on C4 last year after 11 series. Ratings have diminished over time – from a high of 9.2m for the final of series three, falling to an average of 4m over the next four series and ending on an average of just over 2m. However ratings improved during BB11 and it is still considered a key format, not least because of the level of Endemol’s investment in dedicated staff, the BB house and studio at Elstree. Closure and redeployment would be costly meaning both sides have an incentive to tie-up a deal quickly.

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Richard Desmond 'on verge of' bringing Big Brother to Channel 5
Agreement expected to be signed with show's producer Endemol within days

Tara Conlan and Mark Sweney
The Guardian, Wednesday 9 February 2011




Richard Desmond is understood to be on the verge of signing a deal with Endemol to bring Big Brother to Channel 5.

It is understood that the commercial terms have been agreed leaving just the official final sign-off by both parties, which is expected within days barring any 11th hour hiccups, to seal the deal. Big Brother came to an end after 10 years on Channel 4 in September.

The Channel 5 owner resumed negotiations with the show's producer, Endemol UK, after they ground to an acrimonious halt last autumn.

Final details relating to the fine tuning of how the format will return to the screen are currently being hammered out. According to one source the new version will be on a smaller scale than the Channel 4 hit, but will have a longer run. On Channel 4 the series ran for up to 13 weeks each year.

"Endemol need the money, which is why they've done the deal, having broken it off before," said one source. "Executives are now down to final details but broadly they are there."

Channel 5 and Endemol declined to comment.

There has been speculation that Davina McCall, the show's Channel 4 host, will return to the Channel 5 version.

Big Brother saw its popularity fade in recent years from its peak in 2002, when it was watched by an average of 5.3 million viewers and a record 9.2 million for the final, won by Kate Lawler. The final of last year's edition of the show, won by Josie Gibson, was watched by 4 million.

On Channel 4 the show's image never really recovered from the damage done by the Shilpa Shetty race row, which engulfed Celebrity Big Brother in January 2007, and declining audience numbers sealed its fate on the network.

However, the franchise could get a new lease of life on Channel 5. The amount of programming airtime that Big Brother delivers, with spin-offs including Celebrity Big Brother, and the viewing numbers – even at the reduced level of its final years on Channel 4 – would boost Channel 5's viewing share.

"Channel 5's ratings are not great and Big Brother will really help them deliver, particularly given there is nothing on the schedule or seemingly in the works to produce such numbers," said a second source.

News of the agreement comes ahead of a relaunch of the channel on Monday that will include new on-air branding, a fresh look for 5 News, presented by new signing Emma Crosby, and celebrity magazine spin-off show OK! TV fronted by former Big Breakfast presenter Denise Van Outen replacing Live at Studio Five.

Big Brother can expect to receive blanket coverage in Desmond's newspaper and magazine empire, but it remains to be seen how much attention it will get elsewhere in the tabloid press, which has gone cold on the show in recent years.

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Davina McCall: 'I won't return to Big Brother'

Thursday, February 10 2011, 15:40 GMT
By Ryan Love, Entertainment Reporter

Davina McCall has confirmed that she will not return to host Big Brother if the show relaunches on Channel 5.

Reports today suggested that the broadcaster and production company Endemol were on the verge of signing a deal after holding advanced talks. However, writing on her official website McCall stated that she had made the "hard" decision to tell fans that she would not have any involvement in the show, should the deal be finalised.

"This is very hard for me to say. I am sure that this will not be a surprise for many of you, but if it is and you are sad...I'm sorry," she wrote. "I truly believe that Big Brother has legs. It is an AMAZING programme that I have LOVED and dedicated a huge and brilliant part of my life to. I think any channel that took it on would be very lucky indeed...its followers are a dedicated bunch!!"

She continued: "But I made a decision after the end of the last series that I would not present it again. There are many reasons for this; I spent a year saying goodbye, which was very painful and scary! Big Brother had been my rock, day job and security blanket - what would I be without it? But I had to have faith that something would happen. It did....and it’s been brilliant! I have had such a brilliant year, four new shows that I'm LOVING doing and saying goodbye to BB with a BANG!!! That is why it would feel like a step back to go back," she added. "Someone new should present it on a new channel. A fresh start for the show...with me still as its biggest fan looking forward - exciting!"

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La prochaine présentatrice va avoir de grands souliers à chausser!

AngelOfDistress a écrit : La prochaine présentatrice va avoir de grands souliers à chausser!

Le nom de Josie circule comme rumeur...

Kin Rush a pourtant été correct pour LS ! ^^

Josie est si pire que ça ?

Zarmela a écrit : [...]


Le nom de Josie circule comme rumeur...

Liam a écrit : Kin Rush a pourtant été correct pour LS ! ^^

Josie est si pire que ça ?

Mais Kim a une formation d'animatrice... Josie, non

Il y a aussi le nom d'un autre ex-concurrent qui circule et dans son cas, ça fait pas mal plus de sens : Brian Dowling, le gagnant de BB2 et de Ultimate BB.

Personnellement, j'aimais bien Emma Willis, l'animatrice de BBLB l'été passé. Ça serait cool qu'ils pensent à elle.

En tout cas, la seule personne qui doit ABSOLUMENT revenir, c'est Marcus Bentley, le narrateur.

Zarmela a écrit : [...]


Mais Kim a une formation d'animatrice... Josie, non

Il y a aussi le nom d'un autre ex-concurrent qui circule et dans son cas, ça fait pas mal plus de sens : Brian Dowling, le gagnant de BB2 et de Ultimate BB.

Personnellement, j'aimais bien Emma Willis, l'animatrice de BBLB l'été passé. Ça serait cool qu'ils pensent à elle.

En tout cas, la seule personne qui doit ABSOLUMENT revenir, c'est Marcus Bentley, le narrateur.

Clair!

15th March 2011

BIG BRO GOES NAKED

By Gemma Wheatley
The Daily Star

A NUDE equivalent of Big Brother is to hit British TV screens.

Producers want to find eight housemates to live for 30 days with no clothes on. The Nak’d Truth has already caused a storm in America, with hundreds of thousands desperate to take part.

Now bosses want to make a British version, to be filmed at a nudist resort in Florida. And they are heading to Blackpool next month to hold auditions.

Programme creator Harris Salomon said: “We plan to take eight Brits and literally strip them naked. We want some seriously interesting Brits to make the line-up. The plan is to roll the show out across the world. Clothing is such an integral part of who we are and we don’t understand how it affects us until we no longer have it on.”

Manchester-based Tom Annandale, 28, has already been contacted after his failed tennis court streak became a web sensation. Construction manager Tom’s clip has 60million YouTube hits. He said: “I have had a massive amount of attention worldwide from TV companies but this is the most curious. It makes Big Brother look really tame.”

BB has had its own share of nudity, with Makosi Musambasi, 30, and Anthony Hutton, 28, sparking sex rumours with a naked hot tub dip in 2005.

Nak’d Truth wants Brits of all shapes and sizes to live and work at the resort under the eye of a psychologist.

Candidates at April’s auditions will be asked to strip. Producer Marisela D’Baldriche added: “We want to make Blackpool the naked centre of Britain.”

To be considered, Brits need to visit the website nakdtruth.tv

Ca va jouer à minuit ou bien il vont censurer les parties intimes?

Big Brother: Channel 5 poised to sign £200m deal
Big Brother could return in August at earliest – but not fronted by Cheryl Cole, as claimed in Richard Desmond's Daily Star

Dan Sabbagh
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 31 March 2011 18.33 BST

Richard Desmond's Channel 5 is poised to sign a £200m five-year deal to bring back Big Brother following months of tortuous negotiations between his company and the programme's producer, Endemol.

There were hopes that the deal could have been announced this week, but last-minute legal wrangles continue to delay the announcement of a plan that has been mooted since Desmond bought the channel last summer.

Because of the time taken by the talks, the earliest Big Brother could come back on air is understood to be August. A three-week run of Celebrity Big Brother is expected to be followed by a run of Big Brother into the autumn and winter.

Desmond is hoping he could lure Cheryl Cole into hosting Big Brother – an effort fuelled by this morning's Daily Star splash "Cheryl's New B Bro Babe" – but the star's camp totally dismissed the public overtures.

"Cheryl has not been approached, and she has no interest in presenting Big Brother," said a spokesman for the singer, noting that star was still waiting to hear whether she would be able to present The X Factor in the US.

So difficult have the Channel 5-Endemol discussions been that Desmond and Ynon Kreiz, the Endemol chief executive, are no longer speaking. That led to talks collapsing in the autumn, and the negotiations only resumed with the intervention of Michael Sherwood, the vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs, whose bank is a one-third shareholder in Endemol.

After the falling-out, Desmond – who still wants Big Brother for the ratings he thinks it will bring – delegated responsibility for the negotiations to Jeff Ford, the Channel 5 director of programmes.

Only in 2012, would Big Brother return to its traditional schedule – running the celebrity show in January, before reappearing with the traditional group of wannabes in the summer months.

That would mean an almost continuous run of Big Brother programmes – running night after night – on Channel 5 from August to January. At the same time, the channel plans to revamp its schedule, with programmes such as Candy Bar Girls, a reality show documenting the "life and loves" of six lesbians who work in a bar in London's Soho.

Channel 5 was expected to generate £260m in revenues in 2010 at the time of its sale by RTL to Desmond for £103.5m in July. But the uptick in the ad market has taken that figure to close to £300m and the channel is generating an estimated £3m of operating profit a month.

This year, Channel 5 is aiming to generate £350m in turnover, again helped by a strong start for TV advertising in 2011, but the anticipated spend on Big Brother and other new programmes may mean that profit growth is not as rapid as the turnover growth implies.

Desmond's company, Northern & Shell, declined to comment.

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Les nouvelles sont bonnes dernièrement

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'Big Brother' 'will return in summer on C5'

Sunday, April 3 2011, 6:25am EDT
By Colin Daniels, Entertainment Reporter

Big Brother will definitely return on Channel 5 this summer, according to reports.

The Daily Star Sunday has claimed that Channel 5 will sign a five-year deal with Endemol in the next few days. As previously rumored, the show will return with a four-week Celebrity run in August, immediately followed by a regular series in September.

Among the celebrities being considered for the summer stint are ex-Harrods boss Mohamed Al-Fayed, The Only Way Is Essex star Amy Childs and The Wanted singer Max George. Meanwhile, Charlie Sheen will apparently be offered a "big-money" deal.

Joanna Lumley, Peaches Geldof, Prince Harry's ex Chelsy Davy, Abbey Clancy and Tinie Tempah are also said to be on the producers' wishlist.

Additonally, controversial football pundit Andy Gray, Home and Away actress Samara Weaving and boxer Ricky Hatton could be offered deals to take part in the reality show.

"We are giving television fans exactly what they wanted - Big Brother back on our screens this summer," a source said. "The deal will be signed over the next couple of days but everything has been agreed. It's a really exciting time for Channel 5 and everyone is determined to make this new era of Big Brother the best yet.

Renovation work has already started on the house, which will be similar to those in previous series but with additional improvements, the report adds.

"It will still have things like the Diary Room. The show's format will also stay the same so fans don't have to worry. It will still be the same program that they've all grown to love over the years but with a bigger, brighter and sexier future.

"It's going to have a bit of a revamp with some new features but all the favorite items will be back, including the 24-hour live feed."

It was recently reported that Cheryl Cole could be offered a £5m deal to host the show.

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