Big Brother Australian TV seriesBig Brother Australia. Network. Presenters. Shows. Series. Previous series. Big Brother 1. 1 Housemates. Winner Ryan Ginns. Runner up Travis Lunardi. Others Skye Wheatley, Priya Malik, Penny Higgs, Lina Grant, Ryan. Big Brother was produced from 2. Network Ten before the network cancelled it in July 2. Big Brother returned on 1. August 2. 01. 2 with a ninth season on the Nine Network with repeats on GOFind the latest TV recaps, photos, videos and clips, news and more on MSN TV. Watch Arnold Fights Back Against Donald Trumps Comments on The New Celebrity Apprentice. Watch the Latest News. Videos including Featured News Videos and Sports Videos and News Highlights. View more News. com. Videos and Breaking News and Featured. All eleven seasons were produced by Endemol Southern Star. From its first season until its seventh season in 2. Gretel Killeen. With a revamp of the series in 2. Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O. From 2. 01. 2 to 2. Sonia Kruger. Mike Goldman has narrated all eleven seasons of the series. Between 2. 00. 1 and 2. Big Brother Australia was also shown in New Zealand on TV2 and Prime. The show returned to New Zealand, as part of the TV3 summer line up in November 2. Series 1. 1 aired in New Zealand starting 3 November 2. Big Brother Australia joins The Block as reality shows screened across partnering networks Channel Nine in Australia and TV3 in New Zealand. The purpose built Big Brother house has been located in a compound at theme park Dreamworld, on the Gold Coast, Queensland, for its entire run. History. It was hosted by Gretel Killeen from 2. Watch Celebrity Apprentice Australia Season 4' title='Watch Celebrity Apprentice Australia Season 4' />In late 2. Gretel Killeen would not host the show for its 2. Tens chief programmer David Mott admitted the series had recently experienced. Mott defended the new hosts saying that the ratings for eviction shows held up. SBS Programmer Shawn White denied the show would be revived on their channel despite rumours with Nine CEO David Gyngell notably interested in the idea soon after the cancellation, only to turn it down days later. The Seven Network expressed interest since bidding for the show after the seventh season finale however, denied any and all revival occurring a week after the 2. Liv And Maddie Californi A Rooney Full Episode Youtube more. Sunrise. Most notably, Network Ten expressed some interest in the format when on 3 June 2. News Limited posted an article suggesting the network may be interested in putting it on its digital channel, Eleven. In the article, Chief Programming Officer David Mott stated that. Made mention was the US version where the show has had 1. On 2. 2 February 2. Dreamworld will be used again as the location for the 2. On April 2. 01. 5 it was reported that Sonia Kruger has switch her role from Big Brother to the Voice. On August 8, 2. 01. Nine confirmed that the Big Brother house had been dismantled, and that they had formally rested the format. This does not mean that the show may not return in future years. The shows name comes from George Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty Four 1. Big Brother is the all seeing leader. The series generally constitutes 1. Housemates are at all times under the control of Big Brother, a rule enforcing authority figure who monitors behaviour of the housemates, set tasks and punishments and provides the mechanism for contestants to make external requests. Housemates must remain in the house at all times, and avoid being evicted by viewers of the show with the aim of winning a substantial cash prize at the end of the series. Alternatively, housemates can also be removed from the house if Big Brother feels this is necessary, and can voluntarily leave the show at any time. In order to support the housemates well being on matters such as wanting to leave the house, all participants have access to the Big Brother psychologist Carmel Hill, and a doctor, at all times. Housemates are filmed 2. Prize money. In Big Brother 2. Big Brother 2. 00. Big Brother 2. 00. The winner of Big Brother 2. Big Brother 2. 00. Big Brother 2. 00. Midori Days Episode 3. Doomsday Prophecy Full Movie'>Doomsday Prophecy Full Movie. Later, when the series began, it was revealed that prize money could be accumulated upon the successful completion of tasks. The prize money at the end of the series stood at 4. In Big Brother 2. The house used for the 2. Punishment Room, where housemates would sometimes be sent to be punished in addition to the 5,0. In Big Brother 2. These monetary fines were subtracted from the household budget rather than from the prize money, while the Punishment Room remained. In Big Brother 2. This room was the Naughty Corner. This room was similar to the Punishment Room of the sixth and seventh series. The eighth and ninth series featured no fines system at all. Instead, Big Brother used the original striking system more frequently that meant when a housemate received three strikes they were evicted. Nominations. Specifically, all housemates are forbidden from disclosing to other housemates who they have previously nominated, who they plan to nominate in the future, or who their Twist has been used on and they must not engage in conjecture about who may attract nomination votes and why. These discussions are banned and are deemed collusion by Big Brother, as they may give housemates a competitive advantage. Breaking this rule incurs fines, punishment, or loss of the right to nominate in the following round. During the Big Brother 2. Friday Night Live competition and their chosen companion were permitted to privately discuss who they planned to nominate in the Rewards Room. Halfway through Big Brother 2. Nominations Room was introduced. This was where housemates were allowed to discuss who they wanted to nominate. In Big Brother 2. They were allowed to nominate using a total of five points, but could only use these points on two of their fellow housemates. In the 1. 1th season the rules were slightly altered due to the pairs twist in play. Housemates would nominate, be nominated as a pair, however they would not be evicted as a pair. The pair with the lowest save vote from the public vote would have a house vote where housemates stand behind the person they wish to stay. Also housemates could talk about nominations to their partner. This rule was only in play for the first week. Intruders. Intruders are new housemates added to the house by the shows producers as an ongoing housemate after the series has started. They are eligible to win the final prize. Location. Subsequent to those series, the interior of the house has been rebuilt or extensively remodeled for each new series. Two separate houses were built for Big Brother 2. The fifth series introduced a Friday Night Live games arena. An animal enclosure was added to the side of the compound for the sixth series. It was retained for the seventh series. Footage from the house is monitored and edited in Dreamworld Studios. This feature was, however, discontinued with the start of the ninth series. The auditorium was an existing facility at Dreamworld used for live stage shows prior to the first series of Big Brother. It was leased to Endemol Southern Star for the duration of the series each year. In November 2. 00. On 2. 2 February 2. Dreamworld will be used again as the location for the ninth series. The Housemates were led to believe they were competing with a second Big Brother house, referred to as House One leading the real Housemates to believe they were in fact staying in House Two. Scenes from the fictitious second house were recorded at a waterfront holiday house situated in the suburb of Paradise Point, called Paradise at the Point. For a brief period, The home had become a popular accommodation choice for fans of the show visiting the Gold Coast. On the 1. 6th anniversary since the shows first screening on 2. Dreamworld to request a tour or access to the site. The staff and security advised the tourist that the house had been stripped bare and that the house was condemned under health and safety laws. There was no possible way to visit the site even if escorted by security. Theme music. The theme for Big Brother Australia was written by Siew Ooi and 0. Productions in Melbourne. The track is an extended version of the main title theme used in the first two seasons of Big Brother Australia, and tracks heard throughout the seasons that followed are shorter, remixed versions of this track.