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Allison Grodner: 'Big Brother' going old school for show's tenth season


By Christopher Rocchio, 07/03/2008

Big Brother is apparently going old school for its upcoming tenth season.



"We've had our share of interesting and amazing twists and turns and casting secrets and so forth," Big Brother executive producer Allison Grodner told WeLoveBigBrother.com during a Tuesday interview.

"A big part of Season 10 was sort of looking back and going, 'Hey, why don't we go back to where it all began -- back to the beginning few seasons and the original concept of the show with strangers moving into the house with diverse points of view, coming from all places, all different ages, all different walks of life -- and try to put that back into play for this special Big Brother 10 season. So that's a big part of this."


Big Brother's tenth season premieres Sunday, July 13 at 8PM ET/PT, but Grodner said the game will have already started by that point.

"I'm not saying there won't be twists and turns to keep our people on their toes... The game starts before these people even enter the house," she told WeLoveBigBrother.com. "Expect the unexpected. Expect a completely different Big Brother from what you've seen this past year."

Grodner also assured that the tenth-season's 13 houseguests are "different from any other cast we've had."

"As far as the cast is concerned, rest assured they are all strangers," she told the website about the cast.

"We have a wide range of ages on the show this year. There's young, there's old, there's in between; there's parents, there's students; there's people with white collar jobs, blue collar jobs. It's all very different. We've got a lot of very specific types of people in this house, and people who have very extreme points of view than maybe we've had in the past."

Grodner also explained that Big Brother's tenth-season house will be made in the image of the guests who inhabit it.

"This year [the house] reflects the cast in all the different places and eras they come from," she told WeLoveBigBrother.com. "This is a very different thing and it goes with the cast."

In addition, Grodner confirmed live studio audiences will also be present during the eviction episodes -- which will air Wednesdays at 8PM ET/PT beginning July 15. It will represent the first time since Big Brother's first season that the show will have a studio audience present for the live weekly evictions.

"We feel like it adds energy to the show," she explained to the website. "It gets [host Julie Chen] on her toes to get the fans involved, to have them in our audience and to have some audience involvement. It will really be a nice, refreshing change."

HIGHLIGHTS
-says BB10 HGs are locked
-talks way too long about "The Bachelorette" - she casts that, too
-back to old concept - group of strangers
-no relationships
-says fans will be excited
-HGs varied in ages, opinions, broad cast of characters
-parents, students, mixed bag of characters
-theme not tied to presidential election
-she has nothing to do with game twists
-seen pics of house, but haven't been in it
-wants to get in the house in the next few days, before the HGs get in
-doesn't know anything about the live audience deal
-CAST ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY
-not recruiting for BB11 yet, casting starts 3-4 months before move in
-talked about ratings for BB9 - about going up against AI and CBS was pleased with ratings
-BB has the most loyal fans of any reality show
-they spend so much time in sequester, they are ready to roll when the move in
-talks about sequester, can watch movies and old BB seasons
-there are HGs who are true fans and know the game - hardcore gamers
-can't wait to hear what we think of the cast