Big Brother 1 (Netherlands)

Big Brother 1 (Netherlands)
Season Information
Country	Netherlands
Host	Rolf Wouters Daphne Deckers
Season	1
Prize Money	ƒ250,000
No. of Housemates	12
No. of Days	106
Winner	Bart in 't Veld
Runner(s)-up	Ruud Bénard
Returnees	Bart in 't Veld (HBB)
Production
Network	Veronica
Season Run	September 16, 1999 – December 30, 1999
Cast
Series Chronology
Next Season	Big Brother 2 (Netherlands)

Big Brother 1 is the very first season of the Big Brother franchise, shot in the Netherlands. This was the only season of Big Brother to be shot in the 1990s.

Background

Development

Plans for the show started in 1997 when John de Mol, Patrick Scholtze and brothers Bart and Paul Römer were having the idea of a show with real people as protagonists. The working title was Project X and it was supposed to run for a year. The element of nominations was already part of the concept to underline the soap element of loyalty and potential betrayal. On a later stage, the working title changed to De Gouden Kooi (The Golden Cage) and would eventually air from 2006 to 2008. After the original concept was not picked up by TV stations it was modeled to a 100-day-event.

Dutch writer Haye van der Heyden is credited to gave the show its name after the producers made an open call for suggestions. The inspiration came from the phrase "Big Brother is watching you" in the George Orwell novel 1984.

First commercials to announce Big Brother were shown from middle of August.

Hosts

The first season of Big Brother featured Rolf Wouters as the main host and Daphne Deckers as co-host.

Casting

Nearly 3.000 people applied to be on the show. Applications could be sent via internet, telephone or a voucher in the newspaper. In the end, nine people were chosen to be on the show. Three additional female contestants moved in later to replace those that where leaving the house voluntary.

Airing & Schedule

The first season of Big Brother premiered on September 16, 1999. In the beginning, daily recaps with events that covered the day before where shown weekdays from 7.55 to 8.30 pm. However, the show was later moved on hour ahead from 6.55 to 7.30 pm to avoid clashed with the daily soap Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden, which belonged to the same Holland Media Group.

Additionally a weekend episode was aired sundays at 6.10 pm. The live show which saw nominations and evictions took place thursdays at 10.20 pm. With the ongoing success of the show, from November 6, the show also aired saturday at 8.30 pm.

Theme Song

The theme song was called "Leef!" (Live!) and was performed by Han van Eijk. Thanks to the success of the show, it topped the dutch single charts. It was later covered in several international adaptations of Big Brother such as in Germany , Belgium, the US, Australia or Brazil.

Twists

• The Bribe: In week 5, the producers decided to make an offer of 10,000 Guilder which the two houseguests that would voluntary walk on the same night would earn. Bianca and Mona took the Bribe.

House

The house was constructed in Almere with an estimated area of 145 m2 plus a garden of 216 m2 and a technical control center of 162 m2. 24 cameras and 59 microphones recorded the life of the houseguests. Following a Back-to-Basic-format the interior design was simple and consisted of IKEA-styled-furniture.

Aerial view

living room

house plan

Housemates

Winner    Bart	Runner-Up    Ruud	Third Place    Willem	Evicted    Karin	Evicted    Maurice	Evicted    Anouk
Evicted    Cyrille	Walked    Bianca	Walked    Mona	Evicted    Sabine	Walked    Tara	Evicted    Martin

Weekly Tasks

Week	Description	Budget Bet	Result
1	Weekly Task #1 The Houseguests have to blow up 2500 balloons and send a handwritten card.	50%	Passed
2	Weekly Task #2 The Houseguests must ride a stationary exercise bike throughout the week to achieve a total distance of 1.200 kilometres.	50%	Passed
3	Weekly Task #3 Everyone pulls a tablecloth out from under a laid table	25%	Failed
4	Weekly Task #4 Find the solution to a puzzle in the time it takes to perform “tricks”	50%	Failed
5	Weekly Task #5 Memorize all 90 postal codes of the Netherlands.	35%	Failed
6	Weekly Task #6 Everyone learns to shoot the basket and walk a tightrope	35%	Passed
7	Weekly Task #7 Embroider the Big Brother logo	35%	Passed
8	Weekly Task #8 Cycling on a unicycle, lasso throwing and jumping on a pogo stick	25%	Failed
9	Weekly Task #8 Anyone can hit a hole-in-one on a mini golf course	50%	Passed
10	Weekly Task #9 Wrap 1000 Sinterklaas gifts with a poem	50%	Passed
11	Weekly Task #11 Leave the fire basket burning for five days	50%	Passed
12	Weekly Task #12 Do the Big Brother puzzle with 3000 pieces	50%	Passed
13	Weekly Task #13 Build a Christmas tree, Santa Claus and a snowman out of Lego and Duplo	50%	Passed
14	Weekly Task #14 Build a snowman that can melt in the sun	50%	Failed

Nominations History

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 5	Week 7	Week 9	Week 11	Week 13	Week 14
								Final
Bart	Tara Willem	Bianca Mona	Not Accepted	Cyrille Karin	Anouk Ruud	Maurice Willem	Karin Willem	Winner
Ruud	Bianca Karin	Karin Sabine	Not Accepted	Anouk Cyrille	Anouk Maurice	Karin Maurice	Bart Karin	Runner-Up
Willem	Bianca Karin	Bart Sabine	Not Accepted	Anouk Cyrille	Anouk Bart	Bart Karin	Bart Ruud	Third Place
Karin	Martin Tara	Bart Sabine	Not Accepted	Anouk Ruud	Anouk Bart	Bart Ruud	Bart Ruud
Maurice	Martin Willem	Bart Sabine	Not Accepted	Anouk Bart	Anouk Bart	Bart Ruud
Anouk	Not in House			Cyrille Maurice	Bart Maurice
Cyrille	Not in House			Anouk Bart
Bianca	Martin Tara	Bart Sabine	Accepted
Mona	Not in House	Bianca Maurice	Accepted
Sabine	Karin Willem	Karin Maurice
Tara	Bart Karin
Martin	Bart Willem

Game History

#	Nominations																																																																Result
																																																																	HM(s)	Finish
1	Bart																																																																Karin																																																																Martin																																																																Tara																																																																Willem																																																																Martin	1st Evicted Day 8
2																																																																	Tara	Walked Day 10
3																																																																	Mona	Entered Day 15
5	Bart																																																																Sabine																																																																Sabine	2nd Evicted Day 36
6																																																																	Bianca	Walked Day 43
																																																																	Mona	Walked Day 43
7																																																																	Anouk	Entered Day 48
																																																																	Cyrille	Entered Day 48
8	Anouk																																																																Cyrille																																																																Cyrille	3rd Evicted Day 56
10	Anouk																																																																Bart																																																																Anouk	4th Evicted Day 70
12	Bart																																																																Karin																																																																Maurice																																																																Ruud																																																																Maurice	5th Evicted Day 84
14	Bart																																																																Karin																																																																Ruud																																																																Willem	6th Evicted Day 98
15																																																																	Willem	Third Place
																																																																	Ruud	Runner-Up
																																																																	Bart	Winner

Week 1

Nominee    Willem

Nominee    Karin

Nominee    Tara

Nominee    Bart

Evicted  30% to Evict    Martin

Week 2

Walked    Tara

Week 3

Entered    Mona

Week 4 & Week 5

Nominee  16.55% to Evict    Bart

Evicted  84.45% to Evict    Sabine

Week 6

Walked    Bianca

Walked    Mona

Week 7

Entered    Anouk

Entered    Cyrille

Week 8

Nominee  17.95% to Evict    Anouk

Evicted  83.05% to Evict    Cyrille

Week 9 & Week 10

Nominee  19.41% to Evict    Bart

Evicted  80.59% to Evict    Anouk

Week 11 & Week 12

Nominee    Bart

Nominee    Karin

Nominee    Ruud

Evicted  73.40% to Evict    Maurice

Week 13 & Week 14

Nominee    Bart

Nominee    Ruud

Evicted  56.10% to Evict    Karin

Week 15

Winner  47.8% to Win    Bart

Runner-Up  43.4% to Win    Ruud

Third Place  8.8% to Win    Willem

Trivia

• With four weeks between the eviction of Sabine and Cyrille, the season holds the record with most days between two regular evictions.

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