Proteas out! SA fail to break World Cup curse, Dr Esther Mahlangu’s historic ‘Art Car’ is cruising home, Gift of the Givers office head in Gaza killed, Snoop Dogg says he’s giving up smoking, Western Cape small-scale fishers finally get their rights, and How much money ‘Big Brother’ contestants made back in the day.
Information about the coronavirus outbreak is hard to avoid, unless you’ve already been on lockdown for a different reason – like reality TV.
The first season of SA’s Big Brother managed to capture the nation’s attention, but not many people have heard the lyrical genius of Bad Brad.
If you like a good TV meltdown you can’t go wrong with this lot from Celebrity Big Brother, alcohol fuelling a tirade that will go down in legend.
Confusion and rumours ruled the news wires yesterday regarding the expulsion of two housemates from the Big Brother Mzansi house. Today more details have come to light.
MNet and Endemol must be hating their lives right now with the burning down of the Big Brother house. Hopefully the contestants will still get to have their 15 minutes of fame.
What I would do to be able to be on the telly and walk around naked. There is nothing I would want more than the world to see me naked. I lie. I will leave that wish for Gary Busey.
Big Brother Mzansi contestants Mandla and Lexi have yet again decided that fornication on national television is a normal thing with in which to partake. We think that if you are going to do something like this, you might as well just make a porno. At least make it lucrative for yourself, right? The outcry […]
In recent years we have seen reality television sink from the lows of Big Brother down through teen pregnancy, to the dregs of Jersey Shore. Earth, it would seem has little left to offer in terms of reality TV. Enter Dutch team, Mars One, who are looking to raise an initial $6 billion to send a team to mars by 2023, and make a reality show out of it.
So! The British Home Office announced yesterday that new legislation will soon allow the government to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of every single person in the UK. The Home Office then had to clarify that, no, this was not some sort of elaborate April Fools prank.
A police investigation has been opened in Brazil after a Big Brother contestent was thrown out of the house for “inappropriate behaviour”. The 31 year-old male model was accused of sexually assaulting one of his housemates. A little tricky to dodge such allegations if the house you’re living in is filled with cameras.
In preparation for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics, Rio de Janeiro has established a huge state-of-the-art surveillance space, boasting 80 interchangeable digital panels, 450 cameras, 80 square metres of surveillance screen space, and an awesome Batcave-esque name: the Control Room. I don’t know how they paid for it either.
And they’d been doing so well with the ‘not evil’ thing. Apple’s new patent is for software that would sense when people are trying to film concerts or events with their iPhone, then automatically disable the camera. It’d be nice to see a concert without a thousand iPhones blocking the way, but Big Brother much?
If you say the word ‘protest’ too frequently in a cell-phone conversation in Beijing, your call gets cut off. No spice. We have pretty strict phone etiquette policies here at 2ov, granted, but generally we allow calls, once placed, to proceed without Big Brother intervention.
They can do that now. By ‘they’ I mean ‘those with money and de facto power,’ obviously, not specifically the heads of the PRC – but I mean government scrutiny of human movement is being implemented on a huge, huge scale. It’s called the Information Platform of Real-time Citizen Movement – which sounds like a good and reasonable platform.