ABC Moving Ahead With ‘Glass House’ Despite CBS Lawsuit, Reveals Contestants

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• They do set themselves apart with the whole audience participation angle. I never understood why Big Brother didn’t do that more. They let people choose what punishment food the houseguests get, but that’s it. There’s so much more that audiences could be deciding though and it could be done real time via social media which would make the show so much more popular and successful. Instead, Big Brother has stuck to the same format for YEARS. They should have done this sooner, then they’d have a better leg to stand on regarding Glass House ripping them off, but I think more than anything they know they might be in serious trouble because GH is doing something more modern and interesting. Also, can we please stop limiting alcohol intake for BB houseguests? We’re asked to tune in to see crazy, real life behavior but due to no alcohol, there’s very little sex and conflict. BB has become all about house politics and competition instead of a fun, sexy, cool, crazy social experiment.

  Comment by me0w — Monday June 4, 2012 @ 4:29pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • The very first season of Big Brother did include some audience participation, in that the audience decided who went home by phoning in votes. The voting ended up screwing some houseguests over (Brit) because entire towns devoted their time to getting a less popular houseguest to stay (George.) Please remember that this was before phone voting systems were “perfected” for other shows (like American Idol.) The first season of BB was so, so sooooooooo much different than the rest of the seasons, the voting being the major factor so frankly, I don’t see where CBS is coming from in their complaints.

    Comment by Bavarian Erin — Monday June 4, 2012 @ 4:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • In season 1 of big brother, it wasn’t that they were keeping in the less popular guests. It’s that the people getting voted out were the most dramatic and making the most trouble in the house. The reality show contestants you love-to-hate. However, you need those kinds of people to make good tv.

      Big Brother has been the only reality shows (non-singing) to film in real time for so long, it is amazing they haven’t changed with the times to include more interactivity with the viewing public. Viewers can’t have any control in the season of Survivor. With the boom of twitter and facebook, it would have been very easy for Big Brother to grab onto that. But they didn’t and now someone can come along and maybe do it better.

      Comment by Nick — Monday June 4, 2012 @ 5:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

      • I think the viewers watching season 1 were VERY different than BB’s core viewership today. The current viewership wouldn’t vote like the S1 viewers did.

        Comment by Toni — Monday June 4, 2012 @ 6:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

• ABC must be going for a more literate audience: One contestant is listed as a “poet/author.” One is a “freelance journalist,” while another is a “blogger.” No doubt all three made the cut because of their masterful skill with words.

  Comment by Johnny Ringo — Monday June 4, 2012 @ 4:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I hope CBS shuts the damn thing down and it doesn’t make air. It’s bad enough there’s one show already like this on air with a robot as a host, so why would we need something similar such as this drivel that ABC is about to air or maybe not air?

  Comment by Jed — Monday June 4, 2012 @ 4:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • CBS tried this same thing years ago with ABC and a Survivor clone; guess what, they lost that one just like they will lose this one. Like in art you only have to change a few things and you can call something your own.

    This isn’t Shakespeare is reality TV, look at all the singing reality shows, there is very little difference between any of them and you don’t see FOX suing NBC.

    Comment by lsb — Monday June 4, 2012 @ 7:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • That’s because it was the other way around, I believe NBC sued FOX over Next Great Champ’s similarities to The Contender.

      Comment by MS — Monday June 4, 2012 @ 11:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’d be suprised if CBS wins this case.

  Comment by dale — Monday June 4, 2012 @ 4:40pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Will this be ‘The Voice’ for ABC? They are putting twists to an old format and the major involvement with audiences could work well on their favor.

  And the contestants look like ‘normal’ and not the usual BB ‘model -types’!

  Comment by Sam — Monday June 4, 2012 @ 5:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

• No doubt Chenbot is feeling the heat and made hubby file a suit. Hopefully Glass House will be the superior piece of garbage, sending BB down the drain where it belongs, and Julie off the air, where she belongs.

  Comment by KD — Tuesday June 5, 2012 @ 10:28am PDT  Reply to this post

• I hope this gets aired to maybe put a fire under the BB production. The last several seasons of BB have gotten so repetitive I’ve considered tuning out. Of course I don’t, but they are just casting the same personality types over and over and setting up the same dramatics season after season. All the good ideas by viewers get ignored and most of the recent seasons have turned into a snorefest the obvious scripted drama and repeats of competitions.

  As for Glass House, I’m not sure how 10 episodes is enough for a show like this. I’m sure they were reluctant to put a new show on several nights a week, but it will be hard to get into a season with 14 houseguests in such short amount of time. They will be cramming too much info into each episode. I hope they really consider expanding early on if it is doing good. Otherwise, I don’t think they can compete with BB.

  Comment by Mistle — Tuesday June 5, 2012 @ 3:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I love big brother and obviously millions of others do also but maybe this GH will give Brandon and Rachel a place to go.

  Comment by FAE ANDERSON — Friday June 8, 2012 @ 11:47am PDT  Reply to this post