Big Brother Craze

Oooooooooooooh can you FEEL IT? Can you? We’re just 34 days away from the Season Premiere of Big Brother 11, and things will start rolling here soon - in fact, they started TODAY.

Just a little while ago, the official CBS Big Brother 11 site went live! They’re already accepting sign-ups for their fantasy game, and… wait, what’s that? There are twelve spaces for house guests photos! Now, we could go all giddy and WHOO about knowing the number of house guests now, but it has been known to change in previous seasons. What it does suggest is that there WILL be a full season - so those who are worried that there would be only 10 guests, that the season will end early because of the Awards Show, can relax. My best is at least 12 house guests, maybe 13 - with a Fast Forward thrown into the mix. That gives us a season of 69 or so days on air - 72-77 in the house total - which falls into line with BB10 and All Stars. That puts the finale right around the 15th - with the final two decided on the 10th, which means that the award show’s airing on Sunday the 13th doesn’t have any bearing on the season itself.

Not only that - Al over at TVGrapevine did a phone interview with Robin Kass - casting director - and she didn’t seem to think the season was to be shortened either. You can listen to the interview here. Robin did dispell one myth - she laughed when asked about the promise of “Bigger secrets” and admitted something we’ve suspected all along; The promotional department has no clue what’s going on, just makes the ads exciting, so quit reading so much into things like ‘dirty little secrets’! Ha! Robin is awesome.

So! What do you think of the new site? How’d you like Robin’s interview? How EXCITED are you for Big Brother 11?

Have you signed up for the Big Brother Craze/Reality Daze/BBE Pool Party? Why not?! We’ll be having a Big Brother Pool - open to all!

Here’s how it will work:

– I’ll post a signup thread, and we’ll have as many pools as we need to make sure everyone gets a shot. You can even sign up for more than one, as long as you are committed to seeing it through, and willing to pony up your part of the prize.

– Once the houseguests are announced, we will assign each member of the pool (or pools) a houseguest via Random.org to cheer and/or jeer for. You can chatter and discuss and tear apart your houseguests strategy, attitude and/or hygiene all you like.

– If your houseguest wins Big Brother 11, then each member of your pool commits to sending $10-$20 USD to the winner in the form of Amazon gift cards, or some other form of gift card if the winner prefers somewhere else. Let’s say there’s 12 houseguests, at $10 a person, that’s $110 of new books or something for the winner! Definitely nothing to sneeze at, and it isn’t too difficult an amount to come up with.

– We all have fun!

Sign up for the forums and get all the details, here!