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Big Brothe In Australia

Big Brother is one of the successful and popular reality television programmes which is broadcasted on Network Ten in Australia. This show represents a number of participants who stay at a special house for up to three months. This house is designed so that the contestants have no contact with the outside world and is surrounded by a great deal of cameras and microphones. The housemates, as they are called, share the house, live together and try not to be evicted due to voting by the public in order to be the last remaining to win a large amount of cash prize. This show has techniques that create full humour and drama, even though there is no script, and the powers of the show which encourages audiences to have emotional responses. Big brother is a television program, Robert has argued, that gblurred categorical and production boundaries between drama and documentary, game show and soap opera.h (270) Reality television concentrates on ordinary people and a story that is not written, and makes any failure or successes relates to human emotions. In Australian Business Intelligence, it has been reported that g[an episode of the debut of Big Brother] attracted 1.56 million viewers, the smallest audience for a first show since the series began in 2001. It did pull a bigger share of the 16-to-39-year-old demographic than it did in 2004 though.h (Shoebridge, 2005) This show seems to be an important part of popular culture in Australian society. But how does Big Brother use its power to get the attention of its Australian audience?
The main reason why Big Brother gathers lots of attention from the whole Australian nation is the housemates. The participants are categorized as healthy Australian people who gwould be able to cope with the pressure of being locked away for up to there months, able to deal with the cameras on them 24 hours a day, and psychologically complex enough to be of interest (to themselves and the audience) for that amount of time.h...

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