Big Brother Amplified: action begins this Sunday
Apr 29, 2011
IT is Big Brother Africa (BBA) again. And it kicks off Sunday evening under the tagline Big Brother Amplified, hosted for the third time by Nigerian TV personality, IK Osakioduwa.
By Nigel Nassar
IT is Big Brother Africa (BBA) again. And it kicks off Sunday evening under the tagline Big Brother Amplified, hosted for the third time by Nigerian TV personality, IK Osakioduwa.
So on Sunday, 8:00pm on DStv channels 198 and 101, 14 contestants, each from an African country, walk the red carpet into the lavish Big Brother house in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is in this house that the 14, including a Ugandan, will share living space for 91 days while cameras and microphones relay to TV viewers across Africa what the housemates get up to.
As they get along, fall in love, fight and vote to eliminate one another, each will be gunning to be the last one standing so they can walk away with the staked prize of $200,000 (sh470m).
Sorry, folks, we do not yet have the name of the person who will represent Uganda – the guys at Multichoice have, for now, still managed to keep the lid on despite our attempts to decrypt their code.
However, we saw former Miss Uganda Monica Kasyate, WBS’s Straka Mwezi, NTV’s Susan Naava, Obsessions’ Sharon Salmon, local artistes Desire Luzinda, Cindy and Rachel K at the auditions two months ago.
Will one of them be the person we see entering the house when the show opens Sunday? But then again, M-Net, the runners of the show, claim they are ready to outsmart us all.
Apparently, Season Six is another of those twist editions, just like they did for Big Brother Revolution (Season Four) in 2009, when we all waited for 14 housemates and 25 showed up. The trick sentence in their earlier releases was: “Season Four will feature housemates from 14 countriesâ€, and we assumed each would send in one. What else is up their sleeve this time?
With the new tagline Amplified, they are promising us amplified action, which they will deliver through giving housemates a number of selective tasks that elicit more drama, emotion, excitement and suspense.
Along with the tagline comes a dramatic new eye, the show’s logo that says “Big Brother is watching.â€
Etched in a carbon fibre background inducing an edgy yet futuristic feeling, this logo makes you feel like Big Brother is actually watching.
Uganda has taken five shots at the show so far. Will the jackpot come home this time? That will depend on who we send. Check out people’s views on their ideal representative.
IT is Big Brother Africa (BBA) again. And it kicks off Sunday evening under the tagline Big Brother Amplified, hosted for the third time by Nigerian TV personality, IK Osakioduwa.
So on Sunday, 8:00pm on DStv channels 198 and 101, 14 contestants, each from an African country, walk the red carpet into the lavish Big Brother house in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is in this house that the 14, including a Ugandan, will share living space for 91 days while cameras and microphones relay to TV viewers across Africa what the housemates get up to.
As they get along, fall in love, fight and vote to eliminate one another, each will be gunning to be the last one standing so they can walk away with the staked prize of $200,000 (sh470m).
Sorry, folks, we do not yet have the name of the person who will represent Uganda – the guys at Multichoice have, for now, still managed to keep the lid on despite our attempts to decrypt their code.
However, we saw former Miss Uganda Monica Kasyate, WBS’s Straka Mwezi, NTV’s Susan Naava, Obsessions’ Sharon Salmon, local artistes Desire Luzinda, Cindy and Rachel K at the auditions two months ago.
Will one of them be the person we see entering the house when the show opens Sunday? But then again, M-Net, the runners of the show, claim they are ready to outsmart us all.
Apparently, Season Six is another of those twist editions, just like they did for Big Brother Revolution (Season Four) in 2009, when we all waited for 14 housemates and 25 showed up. The trick sentence in their earlier releases was: “Season Four will feature housemates from 14 countriesâ€, and we assumed each would send in one. What else is up their sleeve this time?
With the new tagline Amplified, they are promising us amplified action, which they will deliver through giving housemates a number of selective tasks that elicit more drama, emotion, excitement and suspense.
Along with the tagline comes a dramatic new eye, the show’s logo that says “Big Brother is watching.â€
Etched in a carbon fibre background inducing an edgy yet futuristic feeling, this logo makes you feel like Big Brother is actually watching.
Uganda has taken five shots at the show so far. Will the jackpot come home this time? That will depend on who we send. Check out people’s views on their ideal representative.