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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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  2. BB in 2012 should be like successful debate show with more intellect – combine successful features of stuff like Q&A on ABC, 7PM project and all that – we need some diversion from just “celebrity fetish”, go for more politcs (and sex of course 🙂

  3. OMG! OMG!!! OMG!!!!!! I can’t wait for BB12 however, just like hey hey it will be axed after 1 year because nobody will watch it, but I could be wrong, big brother secrets may be a huge success.

  4. I am glad to hear that it is finally coming back, I watched every series of the show and in my opinion the only thing that killed it was Kyle & Jacko O hosting it! As soon as the final series began it just wasn’t the same, as for people saying that why bring something back that was an obvious flop, there are plenty of people out there that have wanted the show back on since it was axed. It’s called difference of opinions. My personal opinion is that the show will reach a huge amount of ratings as it’s been nearly 4 years that it has been off air, providing that they keep it interesting and show the public what they really want to see (BB Uncut & Friday Night Live with Rewards Room etc.) then I can’t see that it will be a failure. I am really excited about it!!

  6. good to see it coming back to australia – i have enjoyed the current american big brother series on cbs with julie chen as host and big brother after dark on showtime2 – i enjoy american big brother alot more than uk or australia – it would be good to see the australian version use the american format for nominations and votes for evicting where its all decided by the housemates and not the public, as it creates much more strategy, alliance and gameplay amongst the housemates, where the head of house nominates two people and the veto comps provide a chance for nominated housemates to save themselves then the housemates vote to evict – the last few months with big brother, cbs has won the timeslot in all but one show due to it being up against the first nfl game of the season, with the big brother season finale on wed night in usa

  7. If it has to come back, its good that its on Nine. Outside the cricket, there’s not a single program I watch on any of their channels, so from my point of view at least this waste of transmission time won’t be taking the spot of anything decent.

  8. Adrian Swift has made some very smart decisions for Nine of late: The Block was an undeniably massive hit this year. The upcoming short run of Celeb Apprentice may not pull massive numbers but it’ll draw media attention. The Voice is good get for its overseas value. Big Brother is right up that alley of spectacle programming. The main point here is simply that each of the aforementioned shows is from a different production company. It’s no mistake that Ch9 has been courted by Shine, FremantleMedia and Southern Star since Adrian Swift took over.

    As opposed to Ch10 who is owned/run by the vertically integrated Shine/Fox/Murdoch family. And failing as a result.

  9. Hey Hey had it’s chance. All twenty of them I believe, Kathy. And, it failed. Miserably. Aren’t there DVD’s for you and your other 600,000 fans who are Still moaning about it’s demise on facebook?

  10. First ch9 brought back Hey Hey its Saturday, then they recycled the Block and now they decide to drag out Big Brother from the reality tv scrapheap!!! Whats next nine….bringing back that awful Ben Elton show???

  11. Got an idea channel nine. How about you buy a big Cheap old wharehouse somewhere, get The Block to renovate it and turn it into the Big Brother house. You will get 2 tv shows,cheap labor,lots of cross promotion and you can auction it off after Big Brother finishes and do it all again the next year. And if some of the block contestants are good you can put them into the BB house too.

  12. What’s the betting that after two weeks of less than a million viewers, the house will be renovated and passed off as the new series of “The Block’. The residents will then placed in the new reality series ‘The Secret – Homeless’. The winning homeless person will then be offered a job as a special reporter on ” A Current Affair’. After being exposed on ‘Today Tonight” as a long-term shonky-business owner tax-cheat, he/she will be offered a safe Labor seat at the next Federal election. Within two months of being in Federal Parliament, they will become the new Prime Minister, as they had the least ‘history’.

  16. Why are people saying it wont work on nine?

    They succesfully resurected The Block and no one thought that would work.

    They just need to promote the shit out of it, get the right people (cast) and use a lot of bad puns in their advertisements lol

  17. @Kathy: it’s a well-known fact that Ch10 decided not to renew Big Brother based purely on licensing costs. It was a choice between Idol and BB heading into the GFC and BB was more expensive for the network to license up front. Figures in the final year were far superior to things like 7pm Project and The Renovators currently airing and had the added benefit of providing alternate revenue streams from the phone/text voting.

    Also: Hey Hey It’s Saturday sucks balls, good riddance.

  21. Channel 9 – They won’t being back an Australian icon Hey Hey its Saturday yet they are bring back a show that was clearly taken off air because no-one was watching Big Brother. It just goes to show how out of tune Channel 9 are with the viewing public. Saturday isn’t the same without Hey Hey it’s Saturday 600,000+ people on the facebook site are not wrong. Wake Up – Give Australia what its want’s.

  22. @Conan – Sorry to say that reality TV is still very much alive. Just look at the ratings this year for Australia’s Got Talent, The Block, The X Factor, and MasterChef. There have been a few flops (Top Design, The Renovators) but reality programs as a whole seem to be enjoying a ratings resurgence.

    Anyway, it’s got to be better than Two and a Half Men/TBBT repeats.

    P.S. would love to see Gretel return as host – she made the show!

  23. They should do fine.I often have a good laugh about the Adelaide person who wrote into the advertiser going back to the series 1 or 2 days of 2001-02 when Ten were hosting big brother to vote them all off and to bring back Seinfeld the latter being ten’s 7pm offering at the time.I wonder if they would do the same thing now but with 7pm Project instead of Seinfeld.

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