Big Brother 9 (U.S.)

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Season 9 (2008)

Big Brother 9 (also known as Big Brother: 'Til Death Do You Part) is the ninth edition of the American reality television series Big Brother, that aired on the CBS television network on February 12, 2008 to April 27, 2008. Julie Chen returned as host, and Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan were the executive producers. The show was produced by Endemol USA and Alison Grodner Productions.

This is the first winter edition of Big Brother and the first to air during an official television season. There are sixteen HouseGuests competing for the grand prize, an increase over previous seasons. Two previous evicted HouseGuests returned to the game, Sharon returned on Day 7 to replace Neil who left earlier that day. James was given the opportunity to return on Day 35 by votes from the other HouseGuests. This is the first season to feature two previous evictees returning to the House and the third overall to have evicted HouseGuests return.

Contents

Pre-season

Following the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike, the trade magazine Variety reported that CBS, in response, was considering airing a winter edition of Big Brother, and that the network was beginning to cast auditions.[1] Several sites speculated that the winter edition could have been an American version of Celebrity Big Brother[1][2][3][4] but this was untrue as CBS released a statement that the next edition of Big Brother would be a regular season following the format of past editions.[5] The season was announced on November 15, 2007 with open casting calls being held from November 17, 2007 to December 8, 2007.[5] The finalists for the season were chosen on December 27, 2007.[6]

Broadcasts

On December 3, 2007 CBS announced Big Brother 9 would return on February 12, 2008 with three episodes airing on Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.[7][8] Showtime and CBS announced on January 8, 2008 that Big Brother: After Dark would also return and air seven nights a week during the hours of 12 AM and end at 3 AM ET.[9] On February 11, 2008 CBS announced that the live Internet feeds would return for the season with certain events in the House being blocked out to preserve drama of the television broadcasts. The Internet talk show House Calls: The Big Brother Talk Show would also return with host Gretchen Massey. A new feature for Big Brother 9 was the addition of watching the live Internet feeds on MediaFLO enabled cell phones and watching new episode of Big Brother live.[10] Big Brother 9 currently airs in the United Kingdom on E4 airing two one-hour episodes on Thursday nights and one one-hour episode on Tuesday nights, the first episode was shown on February 14.[11]

HouseGuests

Main article: List of Big Brother 9 HouseGuests (U.S.)

For the first time in Big Brother history, 16 HouseGuests entered the House to compete for the grand prize. This is the first time since Big Brother 5 that there has been an increase in the number of HouseGuests over the previous season.

One of two twists this season was that each HouseGuest was paired with a soulmate and the pairs shared Head of Household and Power of Veto wins and was evicted together until the end of Week 3.[12] A second twist was that an evicted HouseGuest from Weeks 1-4 would return to the House on Day 35. This is the first season to see two previous evictees re-enter the House after being evicted.

Highlights

Main article: Big Brother 9 (U.S.) highlights

Each week in the Big Brother House is summarized in the table on the main page. A typical week began with the Head of Household competition during the live Wednesday episode and ended with the eviction of a HouseGuest during the following Wednesday's episode. The next "week" immediately started after the eviction with the next Head of Household competition. Evictions, competitions, and other noteworthy events for a particular week are noted. Some of the events listed may not be in order of sequence.

Big Brother House

The outdoor theme present throughout the entire house.
The outdoor theme present throughout the entire house.

House pictures were released on February 6, 2008. The House has an outdoors theme due to this being the first season to air during the winter season.

Throughout the House, there are numerous love quotes written by Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In the dining room and kitchen, the furniture are in bright red and yellow colors, and logs stacked against each other fill up a wall.[13] The walkway to the Head of Household room evokes a giant library. The Head of Household room is an exotic island oasis. The headboard is made from a surfboard, there are Hula girl table lamps, rattan carpet and Polynesian knickknacks.[14] The boat bedroom features shelves and chests designed to resemble small rowboats with rowboat shaped beds. Two large beds made of actual unfinished tree branches with pink bedspreads fill another room.[15] The living room features a giant green semi-circular sofa, and a stone wall fireplace. A red colored room connected directly to the living room by a short hallway, with no doors, has a pair of pullout couches rather than actual beds.[16] New this season is a Spa room complete with a massage table, two-person sauna and lounge.[17]

Outside, there is a hot tub and pool, a billiards table and lounge area. The lounge area features a fire pit and heated lamps.[18] Along with work-out equipment, there are lawn chairs to lay out in the sun.

Prizes

The HouseGuests compete for a grand prize of $500,000 and a runner-up prize of $50,000. In addition to the grand prize and the runner-up prize, various smaller prizes were offered throughout the game. Most of the time the prizes were given out during Power of Veto competitions or Luxury competitions.

In week one, during the Power Couple competition "Falling for You"; Jen & Parker won $10,000.[19] During the Power of Veto competition "Color of Veto" on Day 30; Adam won a motorcycle and Ryan won $10,000.[20] On Day 43 during a Luxury competition, Chelsia, Joshuah, Sharon and Sheila won an advanced screening of the Columbia Pictures film 21.[21] On Day 45, Chelsia won a $21,000 VIP trip to Las Vegas before the screening of the 21, in which her popcorn bucket had a golden ticket for the prize.[22] On Day 44, when Big Brother 8 contestant "Evel Dick" Donato returned to the Big Brother House to host the Power of Veto competition "Club Evel", if a player scored more than Dick's score of 33 from last season, he or she would have also won a classic Gibson Les Paul guitar and amplifier. Since no one beat his score, Dick won the guitar for himself.[22] During the second Luxury competition of the season on Day 71, Ryan and Sharon won an in-house screening of the 20th Century Fox film What Happens in Vegas..., a VIP experience that includes a shopping spree and tickets to the May 1st premiere of the film in Hollywood, and a chance to meet the cast at an after party.[23]. On the season finale, James won $25,000 by America's choice.

Controversy

Autism United, a national autism group, is demanding an apology from CBS over controversial remarks made by HouseGuest Adam Jasinski.[24] During the Wednesday episode, Adam stated he worked for an autism foundation and would spend his winnings on a hair salon for people with developmental disabilities "so retards can get it together and get their hair done." His partner in the House, Sheila, told him not to "call them that," to which he said he "can call them whatever I want" because he "work[s] with them all day."[25][26] In a letter obtained by TMZ from John Gilmore, Executive Director of Autism United to Sumner Redstone, Chairman of CBS Corporation, Gilmore demanded action be taken after the Wednesday episode. Gilmore claimed that the network chose to air the segment for "their own personal goals." The organization also called for the show to be canceled and the organization has contacted advertisers over the issue.[27] Due to the controversy, Lowe's has decided not to advertise during future Big Brother episodes, but it was unclear whether or not they were currently advertising during the program. Autism United has also contacted other advertisers, such as Campbell's Soup, Claritin, Geico, McDonald's and Taco Bell.[28] Autism United and various parents in South Florida are calling for an investigation into Adam Jasinski and the United Autism Foundation. The organization claims to be a 501 c3 charity (deductions made to the organization would be considered tax deductible under current IRS regulations.)[29] The website for United Autism Foundation has an apology regarding Adam's behavior and states he will no longer be working for the company.[30][31]

After winning Big Brother 9 on April 27th 2008, Adam declared he will donate $100,000 to the Autism Foundation.

On Day 31, Matt used the word "nigga" when referring to another (white) HouseGuest. The incident in question was aired on both the live Internet feeds and the spin-off show Big Brother: After Dark on Showtime 2.[32]

On Day 70, there was a controversial Head of Household competition where the HouseGuests were to determine if certain statements were "fact" or "fiction." Many fans of the show, including House Calls co-host Dick Donato, were displeased with the final "fact or fiction" statement, which dealt with how many preexisting relationships there were in the house. The correct answer was three, which counted two relationships between HouseGuests and also the relationships between the guinea pigs. Some fans considered this question unfair. Sharon missed the question, leading to her losing the HoH competition and being evicted. [33]

Voting history

A record of the votes cast, stored in a voting-table, shows how each HouseGuest voted to evict throughout his or her time in the House. The Head of Household and the nominees were not allowed to vote, but in the event of a tie, the Head of Household broke it. Twists to the normal nominations process are noted, such as immunity from nomination and eviction (referred to as "exempt") and double evictions. The last seven evictees of the season are expected to be part of the Jury of Big Brother 9, who will vote for the winner during the Finale.

For the first three weeks the HouseGuests played as couples, each couple counted as one. Each pair can be identified by the color beside their name. Both Jacob and Neil do not have a specific color because Neil, who left the game, was Joshuah's original partner, and Jacob, who has been evicted, was Sharon's original partner. Each couple for the first three weeks shared Head of Household and Power of Veto wins together and were evicted together. In the event the Head of Household couple could not agree on who to nominate they would have been nominated and the runner-up couple in the competition would become the new HoH. If the Power of Veto couple could not agree on what to do with the PoV then it could not be used. If a couple could not agree on who to evict from the House that couple would instead be evicted.

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11
Day 1 Day 4 Round 1 Round 2 Day 35 Day 36 Day 77 Finale
Head of Household (none) Alex
Amanda		 Chelsia
James		 Joshuah
Sharon		 Ryan (none) James Adam Natalie Adam Sheila Ryan Ryan (none)
Nominations
(pre-veto)		 Allison, Ryan
Jen, Parker		 Alex, Amanda
Matt, Natalie		 Allison, Ryan
Matt, Natalie		 Allison
Ryan		 Chelsia
Sharon		 Ryan
Sheila		 Chelsia
James		 James
Joshuah		 Sharon
Sheila		 Adam
Sharon		 Sharon
Sheila		 Adam
Sheila
Veto Winner Matt
Natalie		 Joshuah
Sharon		 Matt
Natalie		 (none) Chelsia James James James Ryan Adam Ryan (none)
Nominations
(post-veto)		 Allison, Ryan
Jen, Parker		 Alex, Amanda
Matt, Natalie		 Adam, Sheila
Allison, Ryan		 James
Sharon		 Matt
Ryan		 Chelsia
Sharon		 Joshuah
Sharon		 James
Sharon		 Natalie
Sharon		 Sharon
Sheila
Adam Not
eligible		 Jen
Parker		 Alex
Amanda		 Nominated Allison James James Ryan Head of
Household		 Joshuah Head of
Household		 Sharon Sharon Nominated Winner
$500,000
Ryan Not
eligible		 Nominated Alex
Amanda		 Nominated Head of
Household		 Mystery HouseGuest Nominated Chelsia Joshuah James Natalie Head of
Household		 Sheila Runner-Up
$50,000
Sheila Not
eligible		 Jen
Parker		 Alex
Amanda		 Nominated Allison James Mystery HouseGuest Ryan Chelsia Joshuah James Natalie Nominated Evicted
(Day 77)		 Adam
Sharon Not
eligible		 Jen
Parker		 Alex
Amanda		 Co-Head of
Household		 Nominated James Matt Nominated Nominated Nominated Nominated Nominated Re-evicted
(Day 75)		 Adam
Natalie Not
eligible		 Allison
Ryan		 Nominated Allison
Ryan		 Allison James James Ryan Chelsia Head of
Household		 James Nominated Evicted
(Day 70)		 Adam
James Not
eligible		 Jen
Parker		 Co-Head of
Household		 Allison
Ryan		 Allison Nominated Evicted
(Day 35)		 Matt Chelsia Sharon Nominated Re-evicted
(Day 63)		 Adam
Joshuah Not
eligible		 Jen
Parker		 Alex
Amanda		 Co-Head of
Household		 James James Matt Chelsia Nominated Evicted
(Day 56)		 Ryan
Chelsia Not
eligible		 Jen
Parker		 Co-Head of
Household		 Allison
Ryan		 Allison Sharon James Matt Nominated Evicted
(Day 49)		 Adam
Matt Not
eligible		 Allison
Ryan		 Nominated Allison
Ryan		 Allison James Mystery HouseGuest Nominated Evicted
(Day 42)		 Adam
Allison Not
eligible		 Nominated Alex
Amanda		 Nominated Evicted
(Day 28)
Alex Not
eligible		 Co-Head of
Household		 Nominated Evicted
(Day 21)
Amanda Not
eligible		 Co-Head of
Household		 Nominated Evicted
(Day 21)
Jen Jacob
Sharon		 Nominated Evicted
(Day 14)
Parker Jacob
Sharon		 Nominated Evicted
(Day 14)
Neil Not
eligible		 Walked
(Day 7)
Jacob Not
eligible		 Evicted
(Day 3)
Notes See
note 1		 See
note 2		 None See
note 3		 None See
note 4		 See
note 5		 None See
note 6		 None
Walked None Neil None
Evicted Jacob
Sharon
Jen & Parker's choice		 Jen
Parker
3 of 4 votes
to evict		 Alex
Amanda
3 of 3 votes
to evict		 Allison
Ryan
2 of 2 votes
to fake evict		 Allison
6 of 6 votes
to evict		 James
5 of 6 votes
to evict		 James
5 of 8 votes
to return		 Matt
4 of 7 votes
to evict		 Chelsia
5 of 5 votes
to evict		 Joshuah
3 of 4 votes
to evict		 James
3 of 3 votes
to evict		 Natalie
2 of 3 votes
to evict		 Sharon
1 of 1 vote
to evict		 Sheila
1 of 1 vote
to evict		 Ryan

1 vote
to win
Adam

6 votes
to win
  • Note 1:      Jen & Parker were the first Power Couple. A "Power Couple" had the sole power to evict another couple from the House. Jen & Parker chose to evict Jacob & Sharon on Day 3.
  • Note 2: Neil left the House on Day 7 due to an "urgent personal matter". Joshuah, Neil's partner, had to chose between Sharon or Jacob to bring back and be his partner, he chose Sharon.[34]
  • Note 3: The couples split up into individual players on Day 28. The first round of voting was to evict a couple from the House. The second vote, occurring after the split, decided which person from that "evicted couple" would be the first individually-evicted HouseGuest.
  • Note 4: On Day 28, the viewers were given a week to vote on which one of the first six evictees (Jacob, Jen, Parker, Allison, Alex and Amanda) they would like to see return to the game. The viewers chose Alex as the HouseGuest they would like to see return. The HouseGuests then had to vote on whether to bring back James, the recent evictee, or the person the viewers picked known only to them as the "mystery HouseGuest".
  • Note 5: James, as Head of Household, had to vote to break a tie on Day 42.
  • Note 6: Sheila, as Head of Household, had to vote to break a tie on Day 70.

Ratings

Big Brother 9 airs three episodes a week, with shows airing Sundays at 8 p.m. (EST), Tuesdays 9 p.m., and Wednesdays 8 p.m. The live eviction show was moved to Wednesdays due to Survivor: Micronesia airing Thursdays 8 p.m. This is the first season of Big Brother to air during an official television season, and the second to air concurrently with a season of Survivor. Big Brother 9 is also competing with FOX's American Idol on Wednesdays. The first episode of Big Brother 9 premiered on February 12, 2008 with 7.33 million viewers (4.6/7 viewing audience), down from last summer's 4.8/9 (7.4 million viewers) launch.[35]

U.S. television ratings

This is ratings information for the season. "Rating" is the estimated percentage of all televisions tuned to the show, and "share" is the percentage of all televisions in use that are tuned in. "Overnight Viewers" is the estimated number viewers that watched a program either while it was broadcast or watched via DVR on the same day the program was broadcast. "Live+7 Viewers" is the estimated number of viewers that watched a program while it was broadcast or via DVR within 7 days of original broadcast.. "Increase over Live" is the percentage of increase between the amount of viewers who watched a program "Live" versus "Live+7".

Unless otherwise cited, the overnight rating and share information comes from Zap2It[36] and viewer and ranking information comes from CalendarLive.[37] The following week, the numbers are updated with the final Nielsen numbers from TVWeek.com.[38] DVR information is from TV by the Numbers.[39]

Seasonal ranking

Based on average total viewers per episode of Big Brother 9 on CBS:

Program Season Premiere Season Finale TV Season Timeslot Rank Viewers
(in millions)
Date Viewers
(in millions)		 Date Viewers
(in millions)
Big Brother 9 February 12, 2008 7.33 April 27, 2008 6.65 2007-2008 Tuesday 9:00PM
(Power of Veto)		 #112 6.47
Wednesday 8:00PM
(Live Eviction)		 #127 6.11
Sunday 8:00PM
(Nominations Ceremony)		 #99 6.88
  • Season performance is through 4/20/08.[40]

Weekly ratings

No. Air Date Timeslot (EST) Season Rating Share 18–49
(Rating/Share)		 Overnight
Viewers (m)		 Live+7
Viewers (m)		 Increase over
Live (%)
1 February 12, 2008 9:00 PM 2007–2008 4.6 7 2.7/6 7.33 7.47 25.0%
2 February 13, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 3.8 6 2.1/6 5.87 6.35 31.2%
3 February 17, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 4.1 6 2.2/6 6.73 7.06 22.6%
4 February 19, 2008 9:00 PM 2007–2008 3.6 6 2.0/5 5.42 6.01 26.8%
5 February 20, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 3.5 6 1.9/5 5.24 5.80 29.3%
6 February 24, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 3.6 6 2.2/5 5.72 6.18 30.2%
7 February 26, 2008 9:00 PM 2007–2008 4.4 7 2.6/6 6.74 7.20 20.9%
8 February 27, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 3.5 6 2.1/5 5.56 5.83 32.4%
9 March 2, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 3.9 6 2.3/6 6.17 6.61 25.3%
10 March 4, 2008 9:00 PM 2007–2008 4.3 7 2.5/6 6.67 6.65 25.6%
11 March 5, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 3.8 6 2.0/5 5.69 6.02 27.5%
12 March 9, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 4.2 7 2.2/6 6.48 6.78 23.1%
13 March 11, 2008 9:00 PM 2007–2008 3.5 6 2.1/5 5.92 6.39 24%
14 March 12, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 3.5 6 1.9/5 5.44 5.75 28%
15 March 16, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 4.1 7 2.3/6 6.25 6.62 24.3%
16 March 18, 2008 9:00 PM 2007–2008 3.5 5 2.0/5 5.48 5.79 21.6%
17 March 19, 2008 9:00 PM** 2007–2008 4.3 7 2.4/6 6.73 6.95 22.8%
18 March 23, 2008 8:00 PM** 2007–2008 4.0 7 2.1/5 6.38 n/a n/a
19 March 25, 2008 9:00 PM 2007–2008 3.8 6 2.2/5 5.95 6.30 25.3%
20 March 26, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 3.9 7 2.1/6 6.04 6.21 24.7%
21 March 30, 2008[41] 8:30 PM** 2007–2008 4.8 7 2.6/6 7.47 7.70 15%
22 April 1, 2008 9:00 PM 2007–2008 4.1 6 2.4/6 6.42 6.52 22.7%
23 April 2, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 4.0 6 2.2/7 6.04 6.21 26.0%
24 April 6, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 4.0 7 2.2/6 6.53 6.54 22.3%
25 April 8, 2008 9:00 PM 2007–2008 4.2 6 2.4/6 6.30 6.50 19.1%
26 April 9, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 4.0 7 2.1/6 6.05 6.04 19.4%
27 April 13, 2008 8:44 PM** 2007–2008 5.7 9 2.7/6 9.02 n/a n/a
28 April 15, 2008 9:00 PM 2007–2008 4.3 6 2.4/6 6.47 6.54 22.3%
29 April 16, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 4.1 7 2.3/7 6.14 6.42 24.7%
30 April 20, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 4.4 8 2.3/6 6.49 6.65 25.2%
31 April 22, 2008 9:00 PM 2007–2008 4.4 7 2.4/6 6.74
32 April 23, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 4.4 7 2.3/7 6.7
33 April 27, 2008 8:00 PM 2007–2008 4.2 7 2.3/6 6.65
  • "n/a" = No information available.
  • Due to NCAA Basketball on March 20, 2008, the March 19 eviction episode aired at 9:00 PM due to Survivor: Micronesia being shown at 8:00 PM.
  • Due to NCAA Basketball on March 23, 2008, the March 23 nomination episode was delayed from its normal start time.
  • Due to NCAA Basketball on March 30, 2008, the March 30 nomination episode was delayed from its normal start time.
  • Due to Golf on April 13, 2008, the April 13 nomination episode was delayed from its normal start time.

UK television ratings

This is ratings information for the season that broadcasts in the United Kingdom on E4. Ratings below are overnight figures from Channel4Sales

No. US Air Date UK Air Date Timeslot Viewers
1 February 12, 2008 February 14, 2008 9:00 PM 326,000
2 February 13, 2008 February 14, 2008 10:00 PM 302,200
3 February 17, 2008 February 19, 2008 9:00 PM 137,100
4 February 19, 2008 February 21, 2008 9:00 PM 181,900
5 February 20, 2008 February 21, 2008 10:00 PM 150,300
6 February 24, 2008 February 26, 2008 9:00 PM 113,800
7 February 26, 2008 February 28, 2008 9:00 PM 194,600
8 February 27, 2008 February 28, 2008 10:00 PM 161,000
9 March 2, 2008 March 4, 2008 9:00 PM 138,400
10 March 4, 2008 March 6, 2008 9:00 PM 87,500
11 March 5, 2008 March 6, 2008 10:00 PM 93,100
12 March 9, 2008 March 11, 2008 9:00 PM 137,500
13 March 11, 2008 March 13, 2008 9:00 PM 154,700
14 March 12, 2008 March 13, 2008 10:00 PM 144,400
15 March 16, 2008 March 18, 2008 9:00 PM 150,000
16 March 18, 2008 March 20, 2008 9:00 PM 166,400
17 March 19, 2008 March 20, 2008 10:00 PM 124,600
18 March 23, 2008 March 25, 2008 9:00 PM 142,000
19 March 25, 2008 March 27, 2008 9:00 PM 177,400
20 March 26, 2008 March 27, 2008 10:00 PM 134,800
21 March 30, 2008 April 1, 2008 9:00 PM 153,800
22 April 1, 2008 April 3, 2008 9:00 PM 96,200
23 April 2, 2008 April 3, 2008 10:00 PM 94,100
24 April 6, 2008 April 8, 2008 9:00 PM 98,800
25 April 8, 2008 April 10, 2008 9:00 PM 140,700
26 April 9, 2008 April 10, 2008 10:00 PM 122,300
27 April 13, 2008 April 15, 2008 9:00 PM 149,700
28 April 15, 2008 April 17, 2008 9:00 PM 115,100
29 April 16, 2008 April 17, 2008 10:00 PM 109,000
30 April 20, 2008 April 22, 2008 9:00 PM 79,000
31 April 22, 2008 April 24, 2008 9:00 PM 89,700
32 April 23, 2008 April 24, 2008 10:00 PM 62,200
33 April 27, 2008 April 29, 2008 9:00 PM 107,600

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