Big Brother Over The Top: More Details About the Format Changes
|As we edge closer to the Big Brother Over the Top premiere, Executive Producers Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan spoke to Yahoo and the Hollywood Reporter to tease a few BBOTT details.
They revealed their favorites (shocker Alex Willett and Shane Chapman), some new changes to Big Brother Over the Top, and their hope for the future of the online series. Read below to see some of the new details about revealed about Big Brother Over The Top.
- America will help determine the BBOTT winner, have a say in
nominationsS, and evictions. Hopefully America doesn’t have complete control of nominations and evictions, because then winning Head of Household becomes virtually useless. - The Head of Household will host competitions. This seems to support the theory that the fans have most of the control, so the Head of Household won’t have to worry too much about nominations, Veto, etc?
- The Big Brother Over the Top game lasts for 65 days. We knew it would be 10 weeks but not exactly how CBS would calculate that. The Yahoo interview gave a specific timeframe. This should put the Big Brother Over the Top finale on December 1, but since that’s a Thursday, it might happen on Nov 30th instead.
- Big Brother Over The Top won’t have Zingbot, OTEV, and jury house.
- Fans will have control but not completely over anything (this seems to suggest they may have influence on nominations and evictions, but not vote to evict.
- Alex and Morgan Willett play as separate houseguests, so they have the option to reveal their relationship or not.
- Houseguests move in live on Wednesday night (tonight). So we’ll be seeing the players move in and play from day 1, something we never see on the Summer version..
- They’ll be a mandatory time to wake up. So don’t worry about tuning into the live feeds at noon and seeing people still sleeping
- If the show does well, it’ll become a regular fall show
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I’m not sure how i feel about fans having THIS much influence on the game. Especially when it comes to choosing a winner. It could turn into a popularity contest. Plus what’s the use of having a strategy if America thwarts it? I’d rather go back to NO outside influence. Let the chips fall where they may. Even if i don’t like the outcome.
I like the mandatory wake up time though. Now if they could just go back to the HOH room not being hangout central.
As usual, agree, and agree. The LAST thing we need is the hgs playing JUST for the camera feeds. I guess it would be difficult for them to stay 100% in acting mode 24/7 for 10 weeks, but I still like watching them let down their guard. I do like the fans having a little influence but NOT control. And I like when that influence is not predictable (for the fans or for the hgs). We’ll see…. Cat, are you going to be able to watch this as far as you can tell so far? (wink, wink)
I will have no problem being able to watch (BIG wink). Not sure how much of the feeds i will see daily. Probably be in and out. Catch as catch can. I don’t like that the show is on at 10:00. It’s not a good time for me. May have to watch the following morning and read all the recaps. Either way, i’ll be around.
Yea, I’m not generally “online” at home at that time of night. Usually watching tv with husband. I may be able to watch it on Roku (saw that description elsewhere, I think). But I don’t know that I’ll be able to convince my husband to watch it. I can barely get him interested in Survivor!
100 percent agree. I was going to write a whole article saying why I’m against America having so much control, some of the reasons were similar to yours. But the details about how much control fans have is still unclear, so I’ll wait and see before I totally take a stand against it lol. I also like the mandatory awake times.