DVD Collection

As the series nears the end I've almost finished putting together this year's DVDs of the show. This series is made up of:

• 1 disc for Launch Show
• 11 discs for Daily Show
• 3 discs for Big Mouth
• 6 discs for Friday Night Live
• 5 discs for Evictions
• 1 disc for Finale

The covers are based on the opening titles of the shows (which made them very easy to create!)

The DVDs take their place in my collection of:

• BB02 (Launch, early episodes & Uncut)
• Celebrity BB (Finale)
• BB04 (Launch, Specials, Evictions, Uncut, Finale)
• BB05 (Almost everything)
• BB06 (Entire series)
• BB07 (Entire series)

Mike Making Sure Ben is Evicted

Mike Goldman has spent the week ensuring Ben is evicted this weekend and does not have a chance of winning the grand prize. Mike has used his own blog several times, and the FNL Finale show to promote the fact he thinks Ben will be "forgotten about" and win the series through lack of votes. This could only be to ensure he "reminds us" about Ben and that we start voting for him again to get rid of him on Sunday night.

Hopefully it works!

Each HM Gets a Daily Show Story

In the final week of BB, each HM was given a big story as part of one of the Daily Shows:

• Terri: National Nana Day where HMs entertained Terri to win her care package.
• Travis: Cooked each HM their favourite meal in a 6 hour kitchen marathon.
• Alice: Had a date with BB (and a segment on her love for the treadmill and not wanting to give it up for Terri).
• Rory: Finally getting his hands on some real bricks and building a letterbox with Travis.
• Ben: A few small stories: as Head of House got to do the Vending Machine and host the Family Dinner, and was reprieved from sleeping in the Combi Van.

The Combi Van itself got its own farewell in Friday's Daily Show with a "lights out" tribute reminiscent of BB04's Finale Show. Hopefully they will do that again with the House at the end of this year's Finale.

FNL Hosts will get a Send-Off at Finale

A Channel Ten spokesperson has confirmed that Mike Goldman, Bree Amer, and Ryan Fitzgerald will in fact be involved in the Finale on Monday night. This may be in response to outrage by fans on Mike's blog after he said he was told he wouldn't be required.

All the past winners will be there: Ben, Peter, Regina, Trevor, Greg & David, Jamie, and Aleisha.

Still no word on whether Gretel will have any part in it. She is probably one of the only celebs Vile Kyle doesn't have a problem with these days, so you never know.

FNL #12: Finale Night - UPDATED

Tonight is the final ever FNL! It is also one of Dreamworld's "Screamworld" nights where the theme park adjoining the BB House opens its gates late to create the After-Dark Park.

The FNL winner tonight will have the opportunity to enter Dreamworld for "a few hours" to go on some of the rides.

HMs will be lifted higher than ever before. There will be live rats. There will be... pavlovas? And Mike, Bree & Fitzy will sing John Farnham/Little River Band's "Playing To Win".

All this on the last ever Friday Night Live!

UPDATE: What was Mike on about in his blog. The HMs didn't go to Dreamworld. Their families did. The winner got 60 seconds to spend with his accidentally slime-covered brother! It goes to show the format must change right up until the last minute.

Mail Bonding

(I love a blog entry with a good pun in the title.)

For weeks Rory and Travis have been planning a day where they will do a "life swap" in the outside world, where Travis will take on Rory's job as a brickie and go out partying, and Rory will do Travis' job as a PA, and go horse riding. Rory has been giving Travis lessons in how to be him by teaching him to lay bricks. Very expensive bricks so far, as the only thing they've had to practise with in the House are the $25,000 cash bricks from the Prize Money wall.

Today BB answered their requests and delivered a wheelbarrow full of real housebricks and a bag of lime to make mortar. Rory and Travis' task was to build the first ever BB mailbox. He even gave them a real taste of the tradie's life by offering them a "smoko" of coffee and sausage rolls with sauce.

After a couple of hours, the letterbox was complete, right beside the Combi Van, and Rory and Travis etched their names and "BB08" into the wet cement. The job looks pretty good, and it will be something to see when doing the BB House Tour when the series ends.

Mike Goldman "Not Needed" for Finale

Are the producers morons or something?

Mike Goldman showed up for work on BB on Launch Night 2001, and has not missed a day in 8 years. He has done:

• voice overs for about 600 Daily Shows
• live crowd warm-ups for 6 years of Evictions, Nominations and specials
• hosted about 260 episodes of UpLate by himself for up to 2 1/2 hours a night
• co-hosted 54 episodes of Friday Night Live
• co-hosted 2 live evictions when Kyle got sick

And the producers have the nerve to call and say they don't need him to be there for the Finale of all Finales.

From the response Mike got to this revelation on his live blog on the Courier Mail website it is obvious fans want to see him at the Finale, if not hosting it over Kyle "I always hated BB" Sandilands. He did say things could change at any time and we may still see Mike, Bree and Fitzy make an appearance during the final show. Let's hope they come to their senses and let Mike give his show a big send-off.

Unfortunately chances are looking slim that Gretel Killeen could possibly make an appearance as she is in the middle of a month's run in The Rocky Horror Show in Sydney.