CBS renews Big Brother - Season 12

CBS renews 'Big Brother'
by Dave Karger


CBS has ordered a 12th season of its reality staple Big Brother, to air in the summer of 2010. The season finale of Big Brother 11 airs on Sept. 15.


http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/09/09/cbs-renews-big-brother/

Erika wrote:

CBS renews 'Big Brother'
by Dave Karger


CBS has ordered a 12th season of its reality staple Big Brother, to air in the summer of 2010. The season finale of Big Brother 11 airs on Sept. 15.


http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/09/09/cbs-renews-big-brother/

Yipee! That means another season of BBAD(hopefully)!

Erika wrote:

CBS renews 'Big Brother'
by Dave Karger


CBS has ordered a 12th season of its reality staple Big Brother, to air in the summer of 2010. The season finale of Big Brother 11 airs on Sept. 15.


http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/09/09/cbs-renews-big-brother/

Yipee! That means another season of BBAD(hopefully)!

CBS Entertainment Releases

09.09.2009 THIS JUST IN... From CBS Entertainment... CBS ORDERS MORE "BIG BROTHER"
Broadcast Hit/Internet Sensation To Return for 12th Edition in Summer 2010


Less than a week before the two-hour finale of "Big Brother 11," CBS is already making plans for Big Brother 12. The network announced today it has ordered another edition of the hit reality series for broadcast in the summer 2010.

The three-times-a-week series has once again turned into a summer sensation, growing its audience both on-air and online for the CBS Television Network and CBS Interactive platforms.

BIG BROTHER 11 is one of only a handful of programs to post growth in its 10th season. Compared to last summer, BIG BROTHER 11 is up +7% in viewers (7.08m from 6.60m), +4% in adults 18-49 (2.5/08 from 2.4/07) and +5% in adults 18-34 (2.0/07 from 1.9/06). Each of the three weekly broadcasts are also posting summer-to-summer growth.

Online, BIG BROTHER 11 is the Number One show on CBS.com and across the CBS Audience Network in all key metrics with 25% more unique users and 94% more video streams than last summer. CBS.com also logged a record 11.6 million votes when Jeff was awarded the "Coup d'État" Power.

BIG BROTHER concludes its 11th edition with a special two-hour LIVE finale and reunion show, hosted by Julie Chen, next Tuesday, Sept. 15 (9:00-11:00 PM ET/delayed PT) as the Final Three (Jordan, Kevin and Natalie) face off for the $500,000 grand prize.


http://www.cbspressexpress.com/div.php/cbs_entertainment/release?id=22695

Yeah it seems like it would be a no-brainer to renew a cheap-to-produce summer show that actually somehow has been raking in the viewers quite well compared with recent seasons. This is great news.

Of course really great news would mean that in their new season they're going to start taking a critical look at their casting process--the cast makes or breaks the season. And as exciting as BB11 was from time to time, I was not loving this cast. They need to stop recruiting celeb wannabes and start casting people who want to be there and stop casting archetypes and start casting real people. You don't need to manipulate the casting process to produce an exciting game. The game will happen on its own, just give us a great cast.

The game itself has also gotten pretty stale and predictable. There hasn't been a truly game changing twist that has endured since they introduced the veto. The competitions are so obviously recycled (not that I hate them all and do like seeing some of the classics) and come at predictable times. The way they produce the broadcast episodes is really boring and stale too. They need an influx of new creativity, especially if they want to keep it going, and I hope they do!