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Big Brother: Secrets to air on Nine in 2012

It's true. Big Brother is finally set to return to Australian television in 2012 -on Channel Nine.

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Big Brother is finally set to return to Australian television in 2012 -on Channel Nine.

The Herald Sun reports the show will return as Big Brother: Secrets, where every housemate has a secret.

In April TV Tonight suggested the show could be revived on a digital channel by tweaking the show around the French version: Secret Story. In that series housemates are compelled to interact with one another to try and discover each other’s secret and win cash prizes. The format encourages housemates not to fly under the radar.

TEN is believed to have to bid on the new series, but Nine is said to have signed the deal today.

“I understand we are doing it,” a Nine source told the newspaper.

But Nine is also determined to let viewers know it won’t be the same old Big Brother, and will likely be produced on a slimmer budget.

There is no word yet on the host.

The show last aired in Australia in 2008 but fans have always longed for its return.

Update: I have now confirmed the story, with sources, but it’s “early days” on all the details…

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  1. IMO Big Brother is a format that feels wrong on any other channel aside from 10. It is their iconic brand. I don’t see a future with Nine. Plus they need to dump the gimmick secret shit. IMO BB worked best when it was in it most basic form; season 1 and 2

  5. Natalie Garonzi tweeted today that she is no longer unemployed ( after the last episode of Uplate!) So maybe her. She fits in with the Go! Profile and is the perfect woman for the job. She proved she can host live tv with Xtra Factor and The Mint.

    Tipping the Garonz!

  7. Perfect fit… crappy trashy show, for a crappy trashy channel. But you know what. This will probably rate enormously well. Why, i don’t know, but i think it will.

  8. This could be really good for Go, with specials on the main channel. Agree with every one of the “please, not this person as host” comments. Nightmare would be Eddie and Shelley together, with the “chk-chk boom” girl doing the Up Late show.

    Here’s an idea – next year’s Top Design contestants design and help construct the BB house superstructure then The Block contestants fit it out.

  9. oh god please let this be true i would love BB back i would be in the best of both worlds being able to watch the aus version on tele and the UK version on my lap top this verson sounds intresting i swore that i would never watch any new shows on nine but this will be an exemption i just hope it happens

  11. Please don’t use an existing Ch. Nine host, bring in someone new (unless it is Shura Taft). BB seriess one was the best when it was all new and the contestants were wondering if people actually watched. I dont think it will ever be that good again. But being on Nine, perhaps there won’t be anyone watching *cough* Top Design *cough*

  15. whats the name of the bloke that used to host uplate…Mike Goldman… he has been hanging around nine a bit lately…and i even think he has been on Kerru Anne a bit hasnt he…. penny dropping anywhere anyone??

  18. “The world has changed…. young people have moved onto Facebook”

    Yes and teenage boys no longer rely on SBS and Adults Only specials. A treasure trove of nudie bits is now just a click away.

  20. It should aim for a broad audience and be more a psychological experiment into the interactions between different types of characters and people rather than just having young brainless bogans as has been the case in previous series’.

    Go to any bus stop of a morning where you see normal people from all walks of life waiting to go to work, their faces full of character shaped by life’s joys and struggles, they should be the types picked for this new series.

    The bitter old man who never smiles, the middle aged spinster who’s never married, the resident happy go lucky bimbo, the young lost soul, the resident family man full of family stresses, the arrogant hard to get along with young punk, the elderly wise old widow, the middle aged housewife not happy with her lot, the flirty nymphomaniac etc etc…

    Just normal everyday people that you would find on any street, in any shop, on any corner, on any bus stop. That’s what I would like to see, the interactions between different people of different character types, rather than young hooligans flashing around and making fools of themselves.

  21. Just checking it not 1st april , lol. Will they bring back the original voice of big brother

    will give this a chance, but going be nines record, they will stuff it up…..

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