Ugandan <em>Big Brother </em>Panel Due
Mar 06, 2003
A former house-mate, a cameraman, a director and a psychiatrist — This quartet four will make up the Big Brother Africa panel that will be in town this weekend to screen Ugandans hoping to represent the country in the latest version of the world’s biggest virtual television show.
By Kalungi Kabuye
A former house-mate, a cameraman, a director and a psychiatrist — This quartet four will make up the Big Brother Africa panel that will be in town this weekend to screen Ugandans hoping to represent the country in the latest version of the world’s biggest virtual television show.
There will be Carol Zuma, a house-mate in Big Brother II and already a visitor to Uganda. George Zondi will be doing the filming, Mario le Grange will direct the whole thing with Lyle Britton giving the psychiatrist’s opinion.
According to Rachel Sematimba, the Big Brother Co-ordinator for Uganda, the panel from South Africa will jet in on Sunday evening and start carrying out the screening on Monday at Hotel Equatoria.
“We don’t know yet how many people have been short-listed for the second stage. We will know when the panel comes in, but the screening process will be carried out on Monday and Tuesday, after which the panel will move on to another country,†Sematimba told Weekend Vision.
Ugandans returned more application forms to Multichoice than any other African country, 276 of them. These will be cut down to 50 through next week’s screening. Further screening will cut the number further to 25, after which the public will be asked to vote for the final five that will go down to South Africa for the final elimination stage, in which one Ugandan will be chosen to enter the house.
The screening will involve personal interviews with the applicants, along with television screen tests to see how they will appear on screen. The most important stage, Sematimba said, is the psychiatric tests, which will strive to eliminate any individuals with questionable psychiatric profiles, especially those prone to violence. The tests will be open to the press, although not to the public.
“We can tolerate anything but violence,†M-Net CEO Glen Marques told the press in an earlier visit. “We don’t care about your sexual orientation, or even your HIV status, but anyone prone to violence will not be allowed in the house.â€
Twelve people from twelve different African countries will go into the Big Brother house sometime in May, and will stay there for 106 days in an effort to win themselves $100,000 (sh195m). Ends
A former house-mate, a cameraman, a director and a psychiatrist — This quartet four will make up the Big Brother Africa panel that will be in town this weekend to screen Ugandans hoping to represent the country in the latest version of the world’s biggest virtual television show.
There will be Carol Zuma, a house-mate in Big Brother II and already a visitor to Uganda. George Zondi will be doing the filming, Mario le Grange will direct the whole thing with Lyle Britton giving the psychiatrist’s opinion.
According to Rachel Sematimba, the Big Brother Co-ordinator for Uganda, the panel from South Africa will jet in on Sunday evening and start carrying out the screening on Monday at Hotel Equatoria.
“We don’t know yet how many people have been short-listed for the second stage. We will know when the panel comes in, but the screening process will be carried out on Monday and Tuesday, after which the panel will move on to another country,†Sematimba told Weekend Vision.
Ugandans returned more application forms to Multichoice than any other African country, 276 of them. These will be cut down to 50 through next week’s screening. Further screening will cut the number further to 25, after which the public will be asked to vote for the final five that will go down to South Africa for the final elimination stage, in which one Ugandan will be chosen to enter the house.
The screening will involve personal interviews with the applicants, along with television screen tests to see how they will appear on screen. The most important stage, Sematimba said, is the psychiatric tests, which will strive to eliminate any individuals with questionable psychiatric profiles, especially those prone to violence. The tests will be open to the press, although not to the public.
“We can tolerate anything but violence,†M-Net CEO Glen Marques told the press in an earlier visit. “We don’t care about your sexual orientation, or even your HIV status, but anyone prone to violence will not be allowed in the house.â€
Twelve people from twelve different African countries will go into the Big Brother house sometime in May, and will stay there for 106 days in an effort to win themselves $100,000 (sh195m). Ends