BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING...WILL YOU WATCH TOO.Reality TV like you've never seen before hits the airwaves this summer with CBS' ``Big Brother'' - a show that could turn us into a nation of voyeurs, peeping into the lives of a group of housemates in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . Here's the set-up: It's July and 10 strangers live in a two-bedroom, one-bath Studio City home for up to 100 days with dozens of cameras and microphones hidden in every nook, cranny and window. The living situation's only saving grace in the heat of summer is that the house is air-conditioned. There's no escape! Contestants cannot leave the grounds or have any contact with the outside world, even close relatives. Relentlessly on camera, they'll be under constant scrutiny with the show broadcast in various forms five days a week - and on the Internet 24 hours a day. The climax: Only one will be left standing when the show ends, and he or she won't be a millionaire. Viewers will vote regularly on which housemate house·mate n. One who shares a house with another. Noun 1. housemate - someone who resides in the same house with you gets booted boot·ed adj. Wearing boots. Adj. 1. booted - wearing boots shod, shodden, shoed - wearing footgear off until only one is left. The survivor wins $500,000. The ``Big Brother'' house is being built on the CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. Radford lot in Studio City, with so many high-tech surveillance tricks that George Orwell's vision of ``1984'' seems like child's play child's play n. 1. Something very easy to do. 2. A trivial matter. child's play Noun Informal something that is easy to do Noun 1. . Auditions are under way. This from the network that gave the world ``Gomer Pyle Gomer Pyle was the simple-minded gas station attendant and later auto mechanic in the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, played by Jim Nabors. Nabors continued the character in his own starring vehicle, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. from 1964-69. , USMC.'' The future is now: Life is nothing but a TV show. It's sweeping the world from the Netherlands, where the series originated, to Germany, Spain . . . and soon to your TV. But, first, Daily News TV Critic David Kronke examines the ``Big Brother'' phenomenon in L.A. Life. And he also shares his own misadventures while applying to be a contestant. |
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