The Best of Big Brother

Australia, 2001

TV show
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Big Brother is the history-making reality television program that was franchised around the world and quickly became a phenomenon when first broadcast in Australia. The program celebrates the excesses of the reality television genre and delivers the ultimate promise to would-be-voyeurs by filming it’s ‘contestants’ constantly for the duration of the show (with the help of 23 cameras). The program, run as a winner takes-all competition, placed twelve strangers in a house (six girls and six boys) to live with each other for a period of three months (85 days). A set of rules were put in place, along with a number of set tasks (or challenges) that had to be completed (or performed) by the house-mates. Each week a house-mate would be voted off by the public from the show, whilst the competition grew and the public interest intensified to a dramatic climax that revealed the final winner. Relive the fun, drama, screams, precocious parading and much un-scripted antics of the original twelve that dared show us all how they could cope under 24 hour surveillance! Hosted by Greta Kileen.

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Credits

co-producer

Andrew Farrell

Lara Hopkins

director

Simon Francis

production company

Endemol Entertainment

Southern Star Entertainment

Duration

01:55:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
2001

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

316422

Language

English

Audience classification

MA

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Nudity

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Reality television programs

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television - Psychological aspects

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television advertising

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television and youth

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television broadcasting - Social aspects

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television comedies - Australia

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television personalities

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television programs

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television programs - Australia

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television series

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Australians

Comedy

Crafts & Visual Arts → Nudity

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Reality

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Television broadcasting - Social aspects

Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Nudity

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Competition (Psychology)

Television

Television → Television comedies → Television comedies - Australia

Television → Television programs

Television → Television programs → Reality television programs

Television → Television programs → Television programs - Australia

Television → Television series

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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