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Big Brother (2005)

Big Brother poster
Genre
reality television
Country
Thailand

How it feels

Strangers live together in a house with no privacy for months. They are filmed 24 hours a day and compete for a prize.

observationaltenseclaustrophobicrepetitivevoyeuristiccompetitionsocial experiment

What happens

Big Brother Thailand is the Thai version of the Big Brother reality television show based on the Dutch television series of the same name originally created by John de Mol Jr. in 1997. The show was broadcast on iTV and TrueVisions channel 20. Thai TV station iTV has purchased the rights to broadcast Big Brother. First aired on 2 April 2005, by Kantana Group Ltd. (PCL) and Saranyu Vonkarjun host the broadcast of the NBC TV in real-time, 24 hours and highlights. The show follows a group of Housemates living together 24 hours a day in the "Big Brother" house, isolated from the outside world but under constant surveillance with no privacy for three months. In two seasons of the show, twenty-seven different people have entered the Big Brother house. The TV cameras filming the production team of 26 to 200 people in the store 12 participants at Kantana Movie Town. The concept of being constantly watched for 100 days of the competition. Each person will need to bring clothes and personal items into the house, Big Brother as well as to co-exist with the 12 people who had never known before in the house is enclosed by high walls and cut off from the outside world completely. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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