Launch Recap

The Launch show has now gone to air. Prerecording allowed it to be a very tightly edited fast paced show without waiting for the HMs to travel from the stage to the house. You could even tell during on stage interviews a lot of audience reaction was edited out too. Why have the audience there at all? Laughs were obviously shortened and some whole questions seemed to be chopped right out.

Yes, so they shuffled, but just a quick shuffle. Hopefully that will be the last of it. Sonia came out and threw straight to opening titles.

The theme music is yet another remix of the classic Aussie BB theme. The titles are the first in history to not feature a Dreamworld ride, because they have finally learned that it is filmed at a theme park but that is the extent of its connection to roller coasters (unless you count metaphorical ones). It's just animated circles and text eventually making up the BB logo. Pretty average really.

The house tour was prerecorded and very fast with Sonia barely able to get her commentary out before the vision moved on.

Housemates started flowing quickly and as mentioned the long trip between stage and house was edited out. I feel sory for the people in the live audience having to wait that out. As usual the first HM into the house felt he had to talk to himself as he wandered around. At this stage I'm sure the feeling of being filmed would be intense. As soon as they have company it seems to subside a bit and they start acting a bit more normally.

All the HMs seem very loud and outgoing.

BB's first twist was to let the 3 males into the house proper while keeping females in the Utility Room, currently know as the Palour. I can see this room being redecorated throughout the series to serve many different purposes as required. This plan seemed very similar to BB07 where females were allowed to watch the male HMs from the Diary Room. But the reasoning later became clear when BB gave the females the list of males' secrets and tasked them with matching the secret to the HM. If the girls win the task, only males can be nominated for the first eviction. If they fail, only females can be nominated. A great twist on the getting to know you task. I wonder though when the female secrets will come out.

After all the HMs were secured away we even got 3 segments of daily show with Mikey's narration. There were some funny and awkward moments as the HMs got to know each other. Some early visits to the Diary Room to bent their feelings to BB. And 2 of the girls even started figuring out the hidden door between the bedroom and secret bathroom. I wonder if they actually saw the leaked houseplans.

Housemates finally headed to bed after 1am. Sonia promised 2 new male HMs would enter the house tomorrow night, and this one will be LIVE!

Diary updates have been going on all day with names blanked out, so hopefully now the secrecy will be lifted and we can follow what's going on all day tomorrow.

Cartoon HMs Nominated?

BB seems to be doing some live testing on the Official Site. I just grabbed this screen cap that shows a couple of cartoon characters up for Nomination!