Big Brother (British TV series) series 11

Big Brother 2010, also known as Big Brother 11, is the eleventh series of the British reality television series Big Brother, and the final series of the show to be broadcast by Channel 4. The show followed twenty-one contestants, known as housemates, who were isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom-built House. Each week, one or more of the housemates were evicted by a public vote. The last remaining housemate, Josie Gibson, was declared the winner, winning a cash prize of £100,000 and a place as a Housemate on Ultimate Big Brother, an all-star edition of Big Brother which began immediately after the conclusion of Big Brother 2010
It launched on 9 June 2010 and ended on 24 August 2010, lasting 77 days - the shortest run since the fifth series in 2004. Davina McCall returned as presenter for the eleventh and final time. Fourteen housemates entered on launch night, with seven additional housemates being introduced in later weeks. The series was watched by an average of 3 million viewers.
Following Channel 4's decision in 2009 not to renew their contract with Endemol to show the series, Channel 5 bought the rights to Big Brother in the United Kingdom, where it was broadcast from 18 August 2011 to 5 November 2018, initially hosted by Brian Dowling from Celebrity Big Brother 8 to Celebrity Big Brother 11 and later with Emma Willis from Big Brother series 14 to Big Brother series 19.

Production

Auditions

Open auditions for the series took place in Manchester on 15–16 January 2010, in Dublin on 19 January 2010, in Cardiff on 23 January 2010, in Glasgow on 30 January 2010 and in London on 6–7 February 2010.

Pre-series

On 10 May, the Celebrity Big Brother 7 website was replaced with a Big Brother 11 mini-site updated with 23 pictures of Big Brother 11s new trailer. The trailer was aired on Channel 4 during The Million Pound Drop Live on 24 May. The trailer featured 30 ex-housemates from the past 10 series of Big Brother attending a funeral of the Diary Room Chair, with show narrator Marcus Bentley as the priest.
On 14 May, it was announced on the Big Brother mini-site that Emma Willis would be joining the current presenter of Big Brother's Little Brother, George Lamb, as co-host for the series. On 17 May, break bumpers featuring the falling flowers began showing on Channel 4. To celebrate the final series of Big Brother, Davina McCall hosted a special programme, Big Brother's Big Awards Show, where the British public has bestowed accolades upon memorable housemates from the previous series. This special was aired on E4 on 22 May. A further programme, Big Brother Exposed: The Inside Story, was aired on 28 May on E4, brought viewers highlights of the past ten series. On 21 May, Channel 4 unveiled the floral-themed eye logo for this summer's series of Big Brother.

Eye logo

The logo, which was made up of hundreds of vibrant flowers, and was a tribute to its past series since its debut in July 2000.

Title Sequence

The titles had a carnival theme which included spinning cogs, a gramophone which was exploding with flower petals, a ventriloquist dummy and a spinning Big Brother clock which was striking 11. There was also cutaway messages during the titles, spelling out 'Welcome' 'To The' 'Mad House'.

Format

The theme for this series was carnival. Like always, housemates entered the House with no contact with the outside world. Each week, the housemates took part in a compulsory task that determined the amount of money they were allocated to spend on their shopping; if they passed, they received a luxury budget and they were allocated a basic budget if they failed. Housemates nominated two housemates for eviction every week. In a new nominations twist revealed on Day 6, the nominated housemates were allowed to escape nominations with a weekly Save and Replace challenge. The Save and Replace winner is exempt from nominations, however, they must replace themselves with another housemate of their choice for eviction. This nominations twist that was held every week is similar to the Power of Veto from the American version of Big Brother.

Eviction format

The eviction format saw a number of changes, at the beginning of an eviction show, a round-up of the weeks events - featuring newspaper headlines - would be shown to viewers. This series saw the return of McCall announcing the eviction from outside the house with the housemates hearing the live audience cheering, booing and chanting. Occasionally, If more than two housemates faced eviction, McCall would announce which nominee will be safe, however, this was only done a handful of times, three housemates face eviction in Weeks 3, 5 and 8, and four in Week 9, where no announcement of who was safe was announced, in Week 10 eight housemates faced the public vote which would lead to the first ever quadruple eviction, out of the four times McCall spoke to the house she would announce one nominee who was safe and then announce the evictee who would have to leave immediately. The eviction announcements were made in no particular order, John James received the highest number of eviction votes, followed by Corin, Sam and Steve, however the order they left the house was Steve, Corin, Sam and John James.
Another change to the eviction format was the housemates 'best bits getting shown before the interview rather than at the end as in every other series - although the previous Celebrity series adopted this format. The panel format used in the eviction interviews the previous year did not return, instead McCall interviewed the evictee in a one-on-one format, however, for the first time ever, viewers could call in with questions to ask the evictee. Also, evictees were shown goodbye messages the housemates recorded for them in the event of their departure, similar to the format used in the American version of the show. The new eviction format continued for Ultimate Big Brother, the only difference that all interviews were performed outside of the studio.

Special features

Tree of Temptation

Located in the bathroom was a chest of drawers created from the Tree of Temptation that was present in the 2010 celebrity series. The Tree of Temptation gave housemates secret tasks to gain rewards for themselves or other housemates. The first task occurred on Day 1 when Mario was performing his "Impossible Task". This is the list of all tasks throughout the series:

Day	Recipient	Task	Reward	Result	Notes	Source
Day 1	Mario	To write fake messages from the outside world on to a beach ball and pretend that it had been thrown into the garden from over the wall.	Higher chances of passing his "Impossible Task".	Passed
Day 2	Mario	To throw housemates' vegetables, fruit and bread into the whirlpool.	Higher chances of passing his "Impossible Task".	Passed
Day 3	Mario	To destroy someone's cigarettes.	Higher chances of passing his "Impossible Task".	Passed
Day 4	Mario	To install an earpiece on his outfit and listen to Tree's orders during the day.	Higher chances of passing his "Impossible Task".	Passed
Day 9	Corin	To tell each housemate a different outrageous lie about herself.	One housemate's suitcase. Corin chose Rachael's.	Passed	Although she told each housemate a different lie, the Tree was not satisfied that her lies were outrageous enough, and Corin was forced to tell one more lie to any housemate. She proceeded to tell Sunshine that she had missed her period and may be pregnant, and passed her task.
Day 13	Shabby	To stay within touching distance of Ben, pay him 20 compliments and hug him for one minute.	A dinner date with the housemate of her choice. Shabby chose Caoimhe.	Passed	Despite Shabby passing the task, she told Caoimhe about the task and as punishment, Caoimhe was locked in the small task room, surrounded by pictures of Ben and Shabby, and had to listen to Ben and Shabby's conversations on a continuous loop.
Day 22	Ben	To organise an impromptu arm-wrestling contest between all of the housemates and beat at least one of the girls.	The contents of everyone's suitcases.	Failed	On Day 24, Ben had to perform an improvised stand-up routine live on Channel 4, in front of the eviction crowd. In addition, on Day 25, he had a bad day set by the Tree of Temptation.
Day 32	John James	To tell each of his fellow housemates an outrageous and jaw-dropping lie about Australia.	A Skype conversation with his friends and family.	Passed	John James did not do the task as planned, said some weak lies. However, the Tree of Temptation took into account that "John is dumb", and told him that he passed.
Day 38	All housemates except Ben	To dress up as and act like Ben for 24 hours.	Ben's suitcase.	Passed
Day 47	Andrew	To create 24 minutes of mayhem in the House, in the style of Jack Bauer from 24, via instructions given by the Tree through an earpiece.	Three bikini-clad young women fed Andrew oysters, chocolates, strawberries and champagne whilst music was played.	Passed
Day 55	Dave	To make at least five other housemates yawn.	A message from his daughter.	Failed	Dave heard the message from his daughter, but read by the Tree of Temptation and played backwards.
Day 58	JJ and Josie	To steal 5 props from the other housemates.	Double the week's shopping budget and a viewing of the housemates' Consider Yourself video.	Passed	The task was originally to be set for just JJ, who was portraying the Artful Dodger for that week's Dickens-themed task, but Josie walked in as the Tree was speaking to him and was consequently made JJ's partner.
Day 63	Sam	To rub blue cheese under his armpits and pass it off as his own body odour.	Dave's letter from his daughter that he failed to earn on Day 55.	Passed	When no one commented on the cheese smell, Sam cut up garlic and rubbed it all over his body. The Tree of Temptation praised Sam for his quick thinking and shared that it considered him as an apprentice.
Day 74	Andrew	To say "yes" to everything housemates asked him to do or asked him about himself.	A perfect day including breakfast in bed, a make-over, a hair cut and a party for all housemates.	Passed	The Tree of Temptation told the rest of the housemates, one by one, about this task so that they could have fun manipulating Andrew.