Of course all of this depends on the state on world events in late June.  As it stands, CBS's official word is that all systems are go for Big Brother 4.  Pray for peace, your TV viewing depends on it.

The series, co-produced by Endemol USA, will air this summer. CBS is still mulling how many times per week the show will air and when it will debut.  The deal with Shapiro and Grodner locks them in for two more seasons, though the second year is contingent on the series getting renewed for summer 2004. "Early Show" co-anchor Julie Chen is expected to return as host.

"('Big Brother') has become a huge franchise for us," said CBS alternative programming guru Ghen Maynard. "The show's a blast, and it's just so cool how many twists and turns you can have on a show where things happened just a day or two (before air time.)"  Shapiro said he and Grodner couldn't imagine not coming back as producers of "Big Brother."

"We were honored that CBS asked us to do it," he said. "And we will be coming up with new twists and turns in the game to keep it fresh and exciting and unpredictable."  Grodner added that the basic format of the show would remain the same -- a group of strangers is confined to the inside of a house for a couple of months, deprived of contact with the outside world, while cameras and microphones record their every move 24 hours a day.

Every week, a different "house guest" is kicked out, with the last one left in the house winning a cash jackpot.  "It's not about messing with the format," she said.  "The challenge will be mixing it up yet again with something that's unexpected. It's a balancing act."  "Big Brother" has been one of CBS's chief summer tentpoles the past two seasons, adding audience every year it's been on. The series frequently won its time slot in the key demographic of adults 18 to 49 last summer.

While this summer promises to be the most competitive warm-weather season ever for broadcast TV -- with dozens of new and returning reality formats set to bow --- Grodner believes "BB4" will be able to compete.  "We had a steady audience that grew all last summer, so I think people will be looking for it," she said.  Shapiro and Grodner have a busy development slate in the works as well as two new reality shows set to premiere in the coming weeks.  "Family Business," which follows a family-run adult-entertainment dynasty, premieres Saturday night on Showtime before settling into its regular Friday slot. And next month, the Shapiro/Grodner-produced reality series "The Family" begins a multiweek run on ABC, Tuesdays at 10 starting March 4.

The New TNN is looking for a local family to participate in a new series tentatively titled "A Weekend Without Mom." In the show, veteran improv comedienne Adrianne Frost will join the family for the weekend and take over  running the household her way -- while the real mom gets swept away for 48-hours of pampering and well-deserved rest.
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In Thursday's Star Magazine, the tabloid reports that Chiara dumped Roddy for Mike "Boogie" Malin of "Big Brother 2."   Mike is friends with Chiara's brother, although he never met her.  Chiara couldn't tell Mike she was selected for "Big Brother 3" before the show started, so they still hadn't met.  They met when Chiara's brother arranged to have Mike drive Chiara to her DWI court case.  By the time of the wrap party, they were a couple.

BIG BRO 3 CONTESTANT LOSES GIRL TO BROTHERLY LOVER
[Star Magazine]  Boogie's no stranger to Big Brother lovin'. He made fans gasp when he proposed to fellow BB2 contestant Krista Stegall on TV. The couple have since split up.

Mancuso, meanwhile, was evicted from the show Sept. 5, and immediately tried to track down Chiara. Of course, Mancuso, a New Jersey-born writer who now lives in L.A., showed up at Belly. Harsh words were exchanged between him and Boogie, and Mancuso was eventually kicked out of the bar.  Full Details 

And Wait, there's more! In Demark, Big Brother 4 is in progress, day 32.  No free feeds.   Theirs looks even sexier then the others.  The site's in Danish, and I assume the HGs aren't speaking English. After you click on the live feed link, click on "GA NAAR LIVE STREAMS".

And in Latvia, there's another Big Brother house, and I can't figure out what's going on there.  It looks like the game is just starting, but I could be way off.  The feeds are free, also use WindowsMedia and I couldn't connect there either. CLICK HERE

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And  EW also has a commentary titled: "Oh Brother... Why the wrong person won the ''Big Brother'' dough -- If it wasn't Jason taking home the half mil, says Dalton Ross, it should have been Danielle"  Full Details 

CBS president Les Moonves announced there could be a celebrity version of Big Brother as soon as October!  They're in the process of securing the talent for it, and promise these will be real celebrities, and not the Danny Bonaduce-Barry Williams type of celebrity that does boxing and "Fear Factor".

THE EARLY SHOW INTERVIEW

Lisa Donahue, a 26 year old, single bartender from Los Angeles won the Grand Prize of $500,000 on Wednesday, September 25, 2002

On Monday, September 23rd  the evicted HGs taped a group discussion and later asked Lisa and Danielle to defend their actions and tell why they feel they should win. On Tuesday the girls packed up their things and got ready for their last night in the BB house.  BB provided them with a couple bottles of wine and played a clip reel of challenge highlights for them.   Today started around 10:00AM for the girls with hangovers.  Over breakfast, Dani tells Lisa all about her freaky dream with special guest star Michael J. Fox. 
THE LAST HUNG-OVER MORNING

At noon the evicted HGs rehearsed and took pictures in front of the house.  At 4:15PM Lisa's drinking a Citrona while putting on her make-up, "I'm shaking so bad I can't put on my eyeliner."  Half hour to showtime:  Lisa: "I love you Danielle."  Danielle: "I love you Lisa.  We just have to keep loving each other a bit longer."    Lisa: "We're still in this together. We still have to face them together." Danielle: "Yes we do."

It's Show Time!  They started with the taped meeting of evicted HGs.  Tonya forgave Marcellas for all the horrible things he said.  On the other hand, Chiara would not forgive Amy for her remarks.  Josh restated his admiration for the way Danielle played the game.  Chiara had a big problem with the way Dani spoke of Roddy.  Marcellas felt that Danielle worked people on levels they shouldn't have been worked.  Of course her boy Jason stood up for her. Amy, as usual, had a good line: "Liberace could never play the piano as well as Danielle played all of us in that house. "  And she didn't say it as a compliment. Before the voting there were DR style comments and opinions.

Eric questioned Lisa about why she didn't vote him back into the house.  She explained that she knew they wouldn't let them both stay in the house, and she couldn't stand to be pulled from him again.    Lisa, was asked by Gerry if she had made any mistakes.  She equated sitting next to Danielle as to sitting next to Will from Big Brother 2.  Marcellas had no questions, just wanted to say he loved them both.  Jason's message was the same, only he did it with tears.

Lisa and Danielle made closing arguments.  Danielle said she's a good person outside the house, and hoped everyone would forgive her for what she felt she needed to do in the game.  Eric told Julie that his opinion of Lisa has only gotten better since leaving the house.  Roddy defended, once again, the way he played the game. 

The evicted HGs then put keys in the BB voting box to cast their votes.  They rang the doorbell and entered the house to reveal their votes.  Lisa answered the door and were met by ten happy, laughing people.  She hugged Eric and he made everything all right, "I couldn't be more sure your the one."

Danielle Reyes, a 30 year old, married mother of two and media buyer from Fairfield, California won the second prize of $50,000.

Jason Guy, the 25 year old, single videographer from Mobile, Alabama came in third place, taking home only the memories of 79 days in the Big Brother house.

Danielle's husband and daughters were their to meet her and Lisa's father was there for the winner.  After the votes were counted and everyone left the house, Julie interviewed Lisa and Danielle one last time.  The final scene was Julie and the cast in front of the house, Eric holding a large stuffed animal he brought for Lisa.

As the credits were about to roll, was saw the empty rooms of the Big Brother house. 

Now, what about all this talk about Jason not having any balls?  Oh sure, he's a virgin, doesn't even masturbate, showers with his underwear on so no one will see his goodies... but he did everything he needed to do to get to the finals.  He won competitions (won HoH and POV in same week), and on live TV, cast the vote to evict Marcellas, when it would have been so much easier to vote Amy out.  When he lost the first round of the HoH competition, he directed Danielle to throw the second part-- Hardly the act of a "puppet" as so many call him. He may not be Vin Diesel, but he had enough to to make it to the end, and was smart enough to hide what he had.  When he was first introduced, I picked him and Marcellas to be the first two evictees. When they showed the clip of him in front of his church saying "I'm playing for a higher power," I thought, "oh no, he's going to preach and they'll kick him out."  But he didn't sermonize.  He chose to preach his lifestyle by example.  I haven't entirely figured the kid out, but I'm not going to dis' him because I don't get it all.

Now about Lisa:  What a wonderful, yet naive girl.  In as much as I love her, wanted her to win, I have to admit, she never could have done it on her own.  Danielle pulled her along, almost as much as she did Jason.  I find it funny that Eric doesn't like Danielle.  He should be kissing her butt, because it was Dani that brought Lisa into the finals. Lisa trusted everyone, and was shocked when she found out the others were playing a game.   You can't expect a girl who never had barbecue before to be sly enough to play and win a game like Big Brother.   And Lisa, if you're out there--  I love you, take this advice: Get out of LA.  You're just not ready for it.  Go home to Connecticut,  date the fireman. 

And what about the fireman: Eric's mistake was becoming a couple, two ways.  If they voted out Lisa instead of him, he would have still been a couple (and a threat) with Roddy.  Now if they then voted out Roddy, Eric could very well have won.  Roddy warned him about becoming a couple, then Roddy and Chiara became a couple.  During the first week, everyone in the house figured Eric would win.  He was the firefighter, young and good-looking,  but wait, when you see a winner that early in the game, you've got eleven weeks to get rid of him and make sure he doesn't win.  He seems like a nice guy, if he hooks up with Lisa, I hope he really is nice.

I'd really like to take a course from Roddy on bullshitting.  No, I really mean it.  He was fantastic.  The only problem was, he had to do the same enchantment over and over again.  It's like watching a magician that drops his pants, pulls the Queen Hearts out of his butt and says "Is this your card?"  Well it's friggin' amazing, but if that's his only trick, he's in big trouble. After the third or fourth time he pulls that card out it's not amazing anymore, in fact it's not even attractive.  You can't tell me that if you could perform Roddy's magic you wouldn't use it.  Think of the women you could get.  You know that guy probably never gets a ticket when a cop pulls him over, I can even see them going for a beer afterwards.   If you hate Roddy, it could be that it's because you can't do what he does.

Josh has led such a low life.  As he said it in his intro, he's all about getting money without working for it.  I think the jury that found his injuries to be faked in an alleged tripping accident saw that too.  I hope he changes, Merritt seems like a nice girl that deserves it.

And the rest:   I don't need to say anything about Amy and Marcellas, they speak for themselves, oh brother do they speak.  I would like to have seen more of Lori.  A little hyper, down-to-Earth, different from the rest, but never stood a chance of winning.  Tonya is a reality show.  I don't respect her, but I don't think she deserves the bashing she took from Amy and Marcellas.  I haven't figured out Gerry.  He seems like someone that would never do a reality show, and yet he acts, goes to nude beaches and was on "The Chair."  He's having fun with his life, so go for it!  Chiara's enjoying life, needs to stop going for it.

Lastly, thank you houseguests.  I spent the summer with you, some days I was there for more than twelve hours at a time.  You opened up your lives for us to see.  I watched you laugh, cry, pop zits, eat chicken livers, and at times deteriorate into Jerry Springer guest-like behavior.   You were great summer houseguests, in 83 days you never spilled a drink on my carpet, and that pretty cool. My best wishes to all.
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