Voyeurism, identify the hazard

I ask myself, who is responsible?

Is it the employer? or the employee?

Have we numbed ourselves to the flaws in human nature?

For the sake of money? satisfaction? security? bureaucracy?

Are we so comfortable with our nudity? our sexuality?

Do we no longer have secrets?

Lives of our own?

Report the hazard?

Isolate the hazard?

Eliminate the hazard?

History[edit source | editbeta]

The idea for Big Brother is said to have come during a brainstorming session at the Dutch-based international television production firm Endemol on March 10, 1997. The first version of Big Brotherwas broadcast in 1999 on Veronica in the Netherlands. Since then the format has become a worldwide TV franchise, airing in many countries in a number of versions.

Although each country has made its own adaptations of the format, the contestants are confined to a specially-designed house where their every action is recorded by cameras and microphones and they are not permitted contact with the outside world. In most countries that have produced Big Brother, the contestants have been known as “housemates”; however in the American and Canadian version they are referred to as “houseguests”. The term Big Brother originates from George Orwell‘s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Besides living together under continuous observation (which is the chief attraction of the contest), the program relies on four basic props: the stripped-bare back-to-basics environment in which they live, the evictions, the weekly tasks and competitions set by Big Brother and the “Diary/Confession Room” (in which the housemates convey their thoughts, feelings, and frustrations, and reveal their nominees for eviction). Contestants are required to evict one of their own on a regular basis; in the earlier series of Big Brother, contestants were evicted every two weeks. However, the UK version introduced weekly evictions; all versions of Big Brother now follow this format.