Big Brother (Greek TV series)

Big Brother Greece
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Created by	Endemol
Directed by	Periklis Vas. Asproulias (2010-2011)
Presented by	Andreas Mikroutsikos (2001-2003) Tatiana Stefanidou (2005) Roula Koromila (2010-2011)
Country of origin	Greece
Original language(s)	Greek
No. of seasons	ANT1 (2001-2005), Alpha TV (2010-2011) No. 5
Production
Executive producer(s)	Tanja Spiranec (2010-2011)
Editor(s)	Mairi Kousoula (2010-2011)
Production company(s)	Ena Productions (2001-2005) PLD Productions (2010-2011)
Release
Original network	ANT1 (2001-2005), Alpha TV (2010-2011)
Picture format	576i (PAL)
Original release	Original series: September 10, 2001 - December 29, 2005 Revival series: October 3, 2010 – January 30, 2011

Big Brother Greece is a television series based on Endemol's Big Brother format. Greek tv station ANT1 launched the series in Greece on September 10, 2001 running for a total of four seasons until 2005. During its run, the network changed the format of the show twice, with season 3 being known as "The Wall" and season 4 being known as "Big Mother". Season 5 was aired from Alpha TV.

Seasons Overview

Series	TV Channel	Launch Date	Finale Date	Days	The Winner	The Prize	The Presenter
Big Brother 1	ANT1	September 10, 2001	December 31, 2001	113	Giorgos Triantafyllidis	50,000,000 GRD	Andreas Mikroutsikos
Big Brother 2		March 8, 2002	July 1, 2002	116	Alexandros Moskhos	€150,000
The Wall		March 10, 2003	June 30, 2003	113	Thodores Jspógloy	€300,000
Big Mother		October 3, 2005	December 29, 2005	88	Nikos Papadopoulos	€200,000	Tatiana Stefanidou
Big Brother 5	Alpha TV Sigma TV	October 3, 2010	January 30, 2011	120	Giannis Foukakis	€170,000	Roula Koromila

Season 1 (2001)

Season 1 premiered on ANT1 on September 10, 2001 for a duration of 113 days. The season ended on December 31, 2001. The season used the traditional Big Brother format. This season is considered the most successful season out of the three to follow on ANT1, with massive viewership. Its finale on New Year's Eve attracted more than 80% of the television share.^[1] Important personalities from the season include runner-up Prodromos Kathiniotis who later went on to release a studio album and also dab in TV hosting.

Start Date: 10 September 2001 End Date: 31 December 2001

Duration: 113 days

The Winner: 2 - Giorgos (The Winner) & Prodromos Kathiniotis (Runner-up)

Evicted Housemates: 10 - Dora, Elina, Filippos, Katerina, Kostas, Mairi, Nikol, Ntinos, Rea & Xristos

Nominations Table

Season 2 (2002)

Season 2 premiered on ANT1 on March 8, 2002 and was on for a duration of 116 days. The season ended on July 1, 2002.

• • The Finalists: 2 - Alexandros (Winner - €150,000) & Kostas (Runner-up)
  • Evicted Housemates: 12 - Amalia, Efi, Franzeska, Giorgos, Klio, Melina, Nikos, Panagiotis, Panos, Sakis, Tina & Zoi

Nominations Table

The first housemate in each box was nominated for two points, and the second housemate was nominated for one point.

Season 3 (2003)

The Wall

◄ ►  Season 3 (2003)

Housemates Name Entered Exited       Thodoris Day 1 Day 113 Patricia Day 1  Day 113    Almperto Day 1  Day 113    Olga Day 1  Day 113    Christina Day 1  Day ??    Giorgos B. Day 1  Day ??    Kelanthis Day 1  Day ??    Giorgos K. Day 1  Day ??    Ntaizi Day 1  Day ??    Mihalis Day 1 Day ??  Day ?? Day ??    Roula Day 1  Day ??    Yiannis Day 1  Day ??    Marios Day 1 Day ??  Day ?? Day ??    Tzortzis Day 1  Day ??    Ariana Day 1  Day ??    Debora Day 1  Day ??    Gogo Day 1  Day ??    Sissy Day 1  Day ??    Winner Runner-up Evicted Walked Ejected

Season 3 premiered on ANT1 on March 10, 2003 and was on for a duration of 113 days. The season ended on June 30, 2003. This season was known as "The Wall" and introduced the notion of "The Battle," in which the house is separated into a luxurious half and a poor half, with two teams of housemates constantly fighting for time in the luxurious half. Expectations for the format proved unsuccessful with ANT1 choosing not to use it again.

• • The Finalists: 4 - Thodoris (winner - €300,000), Patritsia (Runner-up), Almperto (3rd) & Olga (4th)
  • Evicted Housemates: 11 - Ariana, Christina, Giorgos B., Giorgos K., Kleanthis, Marios, Michalis, Ntaizi, Roula, Tzortzis & Yannis
  • Other Housemates: 3 - Debora, Gogo & Sissy

Season 4 (2005)

Big Mother

◄ ►  Season 4 (2005)

Housemates Name Entered Exited       Nikos Day 30 Day 88 Alexandros Day 21  Day 88    Fotios K. Day 1  Day 88    Konstantinos Day 1  Day 88    Anna Day 30  Day 88    Eva Day 30  Day 85    Kostas Day 1  Day 77    Tonia Day 1  Day 70    Louis Day 30  Day 63    Dimitra Day 30  Day 56    Ornelia Day 30  Day 56    Kostis Day 30  Day 49    Konstantina D. Day 21  Day 42    Andreas Day 1 Day 29  Day 28 Day 35    Tezerak Day 1  Day 29    Elli Day 1  Day 28    Kaith Day 1  Day 28    Katerina Day 1  Day 28    Konstantina Z. Day 1  Day 28    Mairi Day 21  Day 28    Venus Day 21  Day 28    Maria S. Day 14  Day 28    Meroph Day 14  Day 28    Foteinh Day 1  Day 21    Giannis Day 1  Day 21    Irene Day 1  Day 14    Maria Day 1  Day 14    Eliana Day 1  Day 8    Teresa Day 1  Day 8    Georgia Day 1  Day 7    Patritsia Day 1  Day 7    Winner Runner-up Evicted Walked

ANT1 decided to revive the Big Brother concept in 2005 again, with Season 4 premiering on ANT1 on October 3, 2005 for a duration of 88 days. The season ended on December 29, 2005. Season 4 featured a new format and was known as "Big Mother". In "Big Mother", the nine housemates take part in the game with their mothers, with whom they must coexist during the contest. The "mamas" were not able to win the prize but they would stay with their children until their eviction. However, this proved to be a failure with the show's audience and the show switched back to the traditional Big Brother format in mid-season. Despite the switch back to the traditional Big Brother format, ratings still did not meet expectations and ANT1 decided to abandon the Big Brother franchise.
Nikos won €200,000.- cash prize.

Nominations table

•      Housemate was exempt
•      Housemate was Head of household (Weeks 5 and on) or Big Mother (Weeks 1-4)

Notes:
^1 In the first four rounds of nominations before nominations took place the housemates voted for who they wanted to be Big Mother that week. The housemate voted Big Mother would, along with her child, be safe from eviction and would have to nominate one nominee each week and break nomination ties when necessary.
^2 In round one of nominations Konstantinos, Eliana & Andreas all received 3 nominations. As only two people could be nominated. Foteinh, as Big Mother, had to choose which of the three would be nominated for eviction. She chose Eliana.
^3 In round two of nominations Tonia & Maria received the most nomination with three each, as only one of them could join Andreas, who was already up for eviction, Big Mother Tezerak had to decide which of them would face eviction. Tezerak chose Maria to face eviction.
^4 In the third round of nominations Konstantinos received the most nominations with seven. Giannis and Andreas both received the next highest with two. As only one of them could face eviction it was up to Big Mother Katerina to choose which of them would be up for eviction along with Konstantinos. She chose Giannis.
^5 In the third round of nominations the initial nominees Kostas and Elli were asked to save one housemate from eviction, they saved Konstantinos.
^6 In the fourth round of nominations Andreas and Giannis received the same amount of nominations. As Big mother it was up to Katerina to decide which of the two would be nominated for eviction, she chose Giannis.
^7 Following the fourth eviction the housemates were informed by Big brother that one member of each mother/child pair had to be evicted and that it was up to them to decide who it would be.
^8 On day 29 Tezerak decided to voluntarily leave the house. As Tezerak was voted Big mother before deciding to leave the house she still nominated a housemate for eviction.
^9 Following the voluntary exit of Tezerak from the house her son Andreas was given the opportunity to return to the house under the condition that he would automatically face eviction against Tezeraks nominee for eviction which was Konstantinos.
^10 In the sixth round of nominations Ornelia was votes HOH by the former mothers.
^11 In round sixth of nominations Konstantina D. was nominated by the housemate nominations. As Head of Household Ornelia had to choose the second person up for eviction, she chose Alexandros.
^12 In the seventh round of nominations Big brother told the housemates they were nominating like usual, however what they did not know was that instead of nominating they were really voting for Head of Household.
^13 In the seventh round of nominations Louis was automatically nominated by Ana and Kostas who were secretly living in the bedset.
^14 In the eighth round of nominations Alexandros was nominated for eviction through nominations. As Head of Household Ana nominated the other nominee Dimitra.
^15 On day 56 Big brother nominated Konstantinos and Ornelia for eviction for rule breaking. Instead of having the public vote to evict which of the two should leave Big brother had their fellow housemates vote to decide which would go.
^16 In the ninth round of nominations Nikos was nominated for eviction through nominations. As Head of Household Kostas nominated the other nominee Louis.
^17 In the eleventh round of nominations there was a tie in the HOH vote between Giorgos and Kostas. As the most recently evicted housemate it was up to Louis to decide who would be HOH, he chose Giorgos.
^18 In the eleventh round of nominations evicted housemate Louis was allowed to nominate.
^19 In the eleventh round of nominations Eva was nominated through nominations. As Head of Household it was up to Giorgos to nominate the second housemate for eviction, he nominated Tonia.
^20 In the twelfth round of nominations Big brother decided that either Eva, Kostas or Nikos would automatically be nominated for eviction and that they would have to decide which of them it would be, they chose Kostas. The other nominee was decided by recently evicted housemate Tonia after there was a tie between Anna and Giorgos following nominations, she chose to nominate Giorgos.
^21 Prior to the thirteenth round of nominations Big brother had the housemates compete in a gift opening competition in which the winner would receive immunity, Nikos was the first to find an exemption in a present and was given immunity.
^22 In the thirteenth round of nominations there was a tie in both the nomination and HOH vote, therefore it was left up to Kostas to choose between Ana and Konstantinos to nominate and Alexandros and Konstantinos for HOH. Kostas chose to make Ana the first nominee for the week and to make Konstantinos HOH.
^23 As the Head of Household it was up to Konstantinos to nominate a second nominee for eviction, he chose to nominate Eva.

Season 5 (2010-2011)

Big Brother Greece

◄ Season 5 (2010)

Housemates Name Entered Exited       Giannis F. Day 1 Day 120 Antonis Day 1  Day 120    Elias Day 1  Day 120    Evelina Day 1 Day 78  Day 62 Day 120    Stella Day 1  Day 112    Alexis Day 1 Day 70  Day 56 Day 105    Giorgos Day 1  Day 92    Mihalis Day 1 Day 78  Day 42 Day 91    Christina Day 35  Day 77    Nara Day 1  Day 70    Maria Day 28  Day 49    Dorreta Day 1  Day 35    Nikoleta Day 1  Day 28    Valentina Day 1  Day 21    Giannis L. Day 1  Day 21    Elina Day 1  Day 14    Winner Runner-up Evicted Walked

Alpha TV announced in July 2010 that they have bought the rights to the Big Brother format, and aired their own revamped version in Fall 2010.^[2] After an open call for participants, a record 6,000 submissions were received by Alpha TV.^[3] The season will run for around 100 days, and will feature 16 housemates competing for a prize of €200,000 (the final prize Giannis won was €170.000).^[3][4] Roula Koromila was the host of the show.^[5] Alpha TV was also partner with Greece's biggest pay tv provider NOVA Greece to launch a 24-hour Big Brother channel on their satellite platform similar to the US Big Brother: After Dark.^[6] However, the show on NOVA was cut by ESR. The show premiered on Sunday October 3, 2010 and ended on January 30, 2011. As with other Alpha TV programs, the show will also air live in Cyprus through their affiliate Sigma TV.

Housemates

• Alexis – Alexis is a 25-year-old engineer from Athens; he entered the house on Day 1.
• Antonis – Antonis is a 30-year-old rafting guide and instructor from Patras; he entered the house on Day 1.
• Christina – Christina is a 25-year-old barwoman from Thessaloniki; she entered the house on Day 35.
• Dorreta – Dorreta is a 46-year-old piano teacher from Pyrgos; she entered the house on Day 1.
• Giannis L. – Giannis L. is a 35-year-old municipal office worker from Chania; he entered the house on Day 1.
• Giannis F. – Giannis F. is a 20-year-old handyman and farmer from Heraklion; he entered the house on Day 1.
• Giorgos – Giorgos is a 39-year-old guide from Volos; he entered the house on Day 1.
• Evelina – Evelina is a 23-year-old model and waitress originally from Poland; she entered the house on Day 1.
• Elina – Elina is a 26-year-old dancer from Athens; she entered the house on Day 1.
• Elias – Elias is a 45-year-old accountant from Athens; he entered the house on Day 1.
• Maria – Maria is a 28-year-old criminologist from Athens; she entered the house on Day 28.
• Mihalis – Mihalis is a 25-year-old dancer and songwriter from Nicosia; he entered the house on Day 1.
• Nara – Nara is a 26-year-old Latin dancer originally from Brazil; she entered the house on Day 1.
• Nikoleta – Nikoleta is a 22-year-old marketing associate from Arta; she entered the house on Day 1.

Nominations table

Each week, housemates will nominate two of their fellow housemates for eviction. Housemates who are immune from nomination will be noted as "Exempt" for the week or weeks in which they are exempt.

Notes:
^27 In round four of nominations, Mihalis had immunity after having won a competition.
^28 In round four of nominations, Giorgos was automatically nominated for eviction by Big brother for refusing to nominate.
^29 In round five of nominations, Maria was immune from nominations as she was a new housemate.
^30 In round six of nominations, Christina was immune from nominations as she was a new housemate.
^31 In round seven of nominations, Alexis was automatically nominated for eviction by Big brother for refusing to nominate although he was able to be nominated by other housemates.
^32 In round nine of nominations, Giannis F. was automatically nominated as he was "captain" and refused to make a housemate immune from the nominations.
^33 In round ten of nominations, Antonis was automatically nominated as he was "captain" and refused to make a housemate immune from the nominations.
^34 In round eleven of nominations, Elias, who was the "captain" last week, gave Evelina immunity from nominations.
^35 In round eleven of nominations, Stella, as she was the "captain" this week, her nomination votes counted as double.
^36 In round twelve of nominations, Stella was banned from nominating (broke one of the rules), but was immune from nominations as she found the lucky coin in a pie the housemates were given.
^37 In round twelve of nominations, Giorgos was automatically nominated as he was "captain" and refused to make a housemate or himself immune from the nominations.
^38 In round thirteen of nominations, Alexis was automatically nominated as he was "captain" and refused to make a housemate or himself immune from the nominations.
^39 In round fourteen of nominations, Giannis F. and Stella were automatically nominated for eviction by Big brother for refusing to nominate.
^40 In round fourteen of nominations, Evelina, as she was the "captain" this week, her nomination votes counted as double.
^41 In round fourteen of nominations, Elias was banned from nominating (broke one of the rules). However, he was elected as the "captain" for the next week and gave Evelina immunity from nominations.

Critical reception

Big Brother was criticized for the voyeuristic nature of the show, in which contestants volunteer to surrender their privacy in return for minor celebrity status and a comparatively small cash prize, has attracted much scorn.^[1] On numerous occasions, participants in the various series have become sexually involved with each other, sometimes engaging in intercourse in front of Big Brother's cameras. This recorded material is typically not broadcast due to its explicit nature, as in the Australian and American editions. Other editions, however, such as the German and British versions, do broadcast it. The Internet stream also captures such moments, which has led to some controversy, with certain jurisdictions such as Greece attempting to have the show removed from the airwaves.^[1]

References

External links

• • Official Website (2010)

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