Early Show video link TONIGHT ON CBS, "BIG BROTHER EIGHT" KICKS OFF A SUMMER OF HI-JINKS AND LOW
BLOWS.
14 CONTESTANTS ARE CUT OFF FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD, TRYING TO STAY INSIDE
LONG ENOUGH TO WIN HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.
OUR JULIE CHEN, THE HOST OF "BIG BROTHER," TAKES US INSIDE.
The "Big Brother" house for season eight might LOOK like a whimsical creation
straight out of "Alice in Wonderland." But once the fourteen houseguests arrive
during tonight's premiere... it'll quickly become more like MALICE in
Wonderland! I got a tour from "Big Brother" Executive Producer, Allison
Grodner.
ALLISON: Welcome to the Big Brother House, Julie!
JULIE: Ooh, I like the colors.
ALLISON: It's bright this year. Different from last year, isn't it?
JULIE: It's very whimsical.
ALLISON: It is. Magical, fun, kind of a fun place to be, like a fairytale or a
fantasyland.
But all is not as it seems in the Big Brother House.
"White Rabbit," Jefferson Airplane
"One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small..."
JULIE: I feel like we're in a dollhouse.
ALLISON: It is, doll-sized furniture. This is an actual recliner.
JULIE: Can I sit on it? Am I going to break it?
ALLISON: No, no, no. Of course not.
Not only are the tables and chairs tiny in this Big Brother Bedroom... the beds
are barely five feet long. And there's more. To paraphrase "Jefferson
Airplane"... one room makes you larger, and one room makes you small.
ALLISON: Get ready to get small again.
JULIE: So now, instead of feeling like a giant in there, I feel like...
ALLISON: Feel like a kid.
JULIE: I do.
There's a reason everything in the Big Brother house is a bit topsy-turvy this
season. Coming IN... the contestants are as confident as ever.
ERIC
I know full well what I'm getting into, I know to expect the unexpected.
JESSICA
You know, I think I'm just perfect for this show. That's really why I wanted
to be on it, I know I can win, so that's why I'm here.
JOE
I doubt there's anything that they could throw at me that that would really
knock me off my toes.
But what they DON'T know... many of them are going to be locked up here for
more than two months with the last person they'd like to see from the outside
world.
ALLISON: It could be a boss and a fired employee relationship, it could be an
estranged couple of family members, it could be best...
JULIE: A neighbor you feuded with.
ALLISON: It could be feuding neighbors. It could be any number of things. But
these are all relationships from the past that will come back to haunt them in
the Big Brother house.
ALLISON: This hallway's an optical illusion of sorts. It's kind of forced
perspective. You go up the ramp, and then you've got the paint job on the side
that makes everything look bigger, as you go up to the end of it.
The houseguests should have NO illusions, though, of any kind of privacy. Their
every move will be documented by 51 cameras and 74 microphones.
JULIE: Now, things can get kind of wild and kind of raunchy in the Big Brother
house, we can't show that on the network, but there's a new outlet for that kind
of stuff this year.
ALLISON: There absolutely is. // 04 50 45 Now we have Showtime Too, Big
Brother: After Dark. And that means that we're going to air from 12 to three in
the morning, live every night, what's going on in the Big Brother house.
Uncensored.
Julie and Allison in a Mad Hatter Teacup in the back yard.
ALLISON: How fast can we make this go? How fast can you take?
JULIE: I don't know, I'm getting a little bit dizzy right now!
Having "Big Brother" on cable TV will DEFINITELY give the household antics a
whole new "spin."
JULIE: There could be nudity?
ALLISON: There could be ANYTHING.
JULIE: Because it's cable.
ALLISON: Because it's Showtime, there could be nudity, certainly, swear words
are okay. All we can say, just
like in the Big Brother house, anything goes.
