House Calls: The Big Brother Talk Show

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House Calls: The Big Brother Talk Show
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Genre	Reality/Talk Show
Starring	Gretchen Massey
Country of origin	USA
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	5
Production
Executive producer(s)	Alison Gronder
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS.com
Original run	2004-07-07 – Present
Chronology
Related shows	Big Brother (U.S.) Big Brother: After Dark

House Calls: The Big Brother Talk Show (also known as House Calls) is a spin-off of the American reality television series Big Brother. The program is a live Internet talk show hosted by Gretchen Massey and focuses on events in the Big Brother house as well as taking phone calls from viewers. The show started in 2004 during Big Brother 5 with Marcellas Reynolds as host/co-host, and became quite popular. House Calls has returned during each season of Big Brother.^[1]

Contents 1 Format 1.1 Format Changes 2 Guest Hosts 3 External Links 4 References

[edit] Format

In each show Gretchen and a guest host talk and answer viewer questions about events in the "Big Brother" House. Viewers are also able to send in emails to the show which are read on air and subscribers of the live Internet feed are able to submit questions to be chosen as the "SuperPass Question of the Week" which is discussed by the hosts. After each eviction, the evicted HouseGuest would join the hosts and answer viewer questions.^[2][3]

[edit] Format Changes

During Big Brother: All-Stars the format was changed to include special guest hosts. This was due to former regular host Marcellas Reynolds being a HouseGuest that season. Marcellas didn't return for subsequent seasons citing buget cuts at CBS Interactive.^[4] For Big Brother 8 a new feature called "Time Capsule" was introduced. The "Time Capsule" was where the HouseGuests leaves a message for him/herself prior to start of the season.^[5] "Time Capsule" was previously used in the Internet talk show Survivor Live.

Due to controversial behavior and remarks expressed by certain HouseGuests during Big Brother 8 evicted HouseGuests that were apart of the Big Brother Jury could no longer be interviewed by the press or appear on House Calls and The Early Show while being sequestered.^[6][7] A statement from Big Brother was released and was read by Gretchen on air:

We have made jury members of Big Brother available to the press the past few seasons always with the proviso that their questions not inform the ejected HouseGuest of influences outside his or her personal experience in the House. This season several cast members have made either offensive statements or exhibited controversial behavior, we respect journalist interests and rights to pose questions about these statements but believe at the same time doing so could provide information that influences the final vote and potential outcome of this twelve week competition. For that reason the remaining jurors will not be made available to the media for the duration of the program. They will be made available to the press after the Big Brother finale on September 18th.^[6][7]

[edit] Guest Hosts

Beginning with Big Brother: All-Stars, House Calls has featured guest hosts alongside Gretchen Massey.

Guest hosts during Big Brother: All-Stars include: Joe Adalian, TV Editor of Daily Variety^[8]; Bunky, a HouseGuest from Big Brother 2^[9]; Lisa, Big Brother 3 winner^[10] and Jase, a HouseGuest in Big Brother 5 and Big Brother: All-Stars^[11]. Marcellas returned as a guest host towards the end of the season.^[12]

Regular guest hosts during Big Brother 8 include: Kaysar, a HouseGuest in Big Brother 6 and Big Brother: All-Stars^[13]; Bunky, a HouseGuest from Big Brother 2^[14]; Holly, a HouseGuest from Big Brother 5^[15]; Erika, a HouseGuest from Big Brother 4 and Big Brother: All-Stars^[16] and Janelle, a HouseGuest from Big Brother 6 and Big Brother: All-Stars.^[17]

Regular guest hosts during Big Brother 9 include: Kaysar^[18], Bunky^[19], Big Brother 8 winner Evel Dick^[20], and Big Brother 8 runner-up Daniele^[21].

[edit] External Links

• Big Brother 5 House Calls Archive
• Big Brother 6 House Calls Archive
• Big Brother: All Stars House Calls Archive
• Big Brother 8 House Calls Archive
• Big Brother 9 House Calls Archive

[edit] References

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