Big Brother (British TV series) series 19

Big Brother 2018, also known as Big Brother 19 is the nineteenth and final series of Big Brother to air on Channel 5. The series launched four days after the final of Celebrity Big Brother 22 on 14 September 2018 and is due to last for 53 days with the final ever episode airing on 5 November 2018. The series is the eighth regular and twenty-third series of Big Brother to air on Channel 5 since 2011, it was also the final series of Big Brother in the three-year contract which was announced on 19 March 2015 which guaranteed that the show will air on Channel 5 until 2018.

On 14 September 2018, it was confirmed that this series would be the final series to air on Channel 5.

Production

Creative team

Endemol confirmed that a new creative team had been formed ahead of the series. Paul Osborne, executive producer of Big Brother 7, returns to overlook the new series as Creative Director. Tamsin Dodgson was also announced to return as Executive Editor. Trevor Boris was also later hired as a senior producer after co-producing Big Brother Canada since its inception.

Format

On several occasions in the run-up to Celebrity Big Brother 22, various news reports and Big Brother alumni hinted at the series going back to its roots, with less producer manipulation and a focus on the show as a social experiment.

The shows' producers also met with several fansites to discuss the direction of the show, with it being heavily reported that the show will bring back weekly shopping tasks and a consistent nominations format.

Eye logo

It was confirmed by creative director Paul Osborne that the series would have a "separate identity" from the Celebrity Big Brother 22.

The eye was revealed on 4 September 2018, with Osborne commenting on its look of "a vast luminous orb of colours".

Cancellation

On 24 August 2018 while speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival Channel 5 controller Ben Frow announced that he was planning for a year without the Big Brother franchise on Channel 5 in 2019, confirming that the current three-year contract expires at Christmas 2018. Frow had previously stated at the 2017 event that he'd be much happier with a channel without Big Brother on it. On 14 September 2018, Channel 5 confirmed that both Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother had been axed and that this series would be "the end of the game”.

Housemates

Main article: List of Big Brother 19 housemates (UK)

In an interview with fansite "BBSpy", creative director Paul Osborne stated that the team were actively trying to find "totally unknown" housemates for the series. In the past, some housemates had previously appeared on reality shows such as The Valleys, Ibiza Weekender and Ex on the Beach.

On 10 September 2018, during the final of Celebrity Big Brother 22, a trailer was released showing close-ups of each of the fourteen housemates with their occupation, age and home town, and the public were granted the power to give one of them an early advantage in the series by voting in a poll.

Housemate	Age on entry	Hometown
Akeem Griffiths	26	Rhondda Valley
Anamélia Silva	31	London (originally from Brazil)
Brooke Berry	21	London
Cameron Cole	18	Norwich
Cian Carrigan	23	County Tipperary
Ellis Hillon	19	Dumbarton
Hussain Ahmed	25	Birmingham
Isaac Jagroop	23	Suffolk
Isabella Farnese	23	Great Yarmouth
Kay Lovelle	32	London
Kenaley Amos-Sissons	24	Nottingham
Lewis Flanagan	27	Stockton-on-Tees
Lewis Gregory	26	London
Sîan Hamshaw	25	Barnsley
Tomasz Wania	31	Preston (originally from Poland)
Zoe Jones	31	Halifax

Big Coins

For this series, Big Coins were introduced to the housemates as house currency. Throughout the series, housemates were able to earn, steal and collect Big Coins in a number of tasks, which would ultimately give them power and the right to buy privileges.

	Place	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Akeem		1167	892	592	592	592
Brooke		494	469	469	469	619
Cameron		377	352	452	452	852
Cian		613	553	853	853	703
Lewis F		565	440	455	90	140
Sîan		315	290	540	540	590
Tomasz		589	779	739	690	0
Zoe		780	730	830	830	830
Isabella	9				250	450
Hussain	10				0	0
Kenaley	11	371	346	546	546
Isaac	12	772	722	501
Kay	13	348	323	173
Lewis G	14	404	379
Anamélia	15	126
Ellis	16

Week 1

• Ahead of the launch, the viewers were able to give one housemate an early advantage in the game by voting in a public vote for their favourite housemate based on just their occupation, age and home town. They chose "The Waitress" Sîan, who began the game with 100 Big Coins. On launch night, the housemates were told that they'd be competing against each other to collect Big Coins with the three poorest housemates ultimately facing the first eviction. Zoe, the occupant of Bed 13, was also given the secret power of swapping coin totals with another housemate of her choice, and chose Lewis G. At the end of the week, Anamélia, Kay and Sîan faced eviction. Following Anamélia's eviction, she decided to donate her coins to Tomasz.

Week 2

• The second week featured housemates taking part in an auction, where they could bid for luxuries with their coins. With Akeem being the richest housemate at the time of nominations, he was able to take part in the Gamechanger task alongside the nominees and two housemates of his choice. As punishment for discussing nominations, Lewis F was deducted 100 Big Coins. Tomasz was also given the opportunity to secretly earn himself more coins by putting the luxury shopping task at risk. Following Lewis G's eviction, he decided to donate his coins to Isaac.

Week 3

• The third week featured housemates going into the task room one by one where each housemate's stack of coins were shown. Each housemate had 90-seconds to decide where to distribute the coins by taking some from coins from a housemate's stack and placing them somewhere else. Another auction then took place where housemates could spend their coins. With Cian the richest housemate at the time, he was able to play the Gamechanger alongside the nominees. Following Isaac's eviction, he decided to donate his coins to Tomasz.

Week 4

• The fourth week featured another auction where immunity from the next set of nominations was on offer. As punishment for discussing nominations, Lewis F was deducted 100 coins from his total. The housemates were told that they could give a 250 Big Coin advantage to one of the new housemates; Hussain or Isabella, who were currently bankrupt. They chose Isabella. However, Isabella was then asked which housemate she'd like to take the coins from, choosing Tomasz, the richest housemate at the time. With Cian being the richest housemate at the time of nominations, he was able to play the Gamechanger alongside the nominees. Following Kenaley's eviction, she decided to donate her coins to Hussain.

Weekly summary

The main events in the Big Brother 19 house are summarised in the table below. A typical week begins with nominations, followed by the shopping task, and then the eviction of a Housemate during the live Friday episode. Evictions, tasks, and other events for a particular week are noted in order of sequence.

Week 1	Entrances	On Day 1, Cian, Anamélia, Lewis F, Kenaley, Tomasz, Cameron, Sîan, Ellis, Isaac, Brooke, Akeem, Kay, Zoe and Lewis G entered the house.
	Twists	On Day 1, it was revealed that nominations will not take place for the first week. Instead, housemates would collect "Big Coins", and the three housemates with the least coins would face the public vote. Sîan received 100 coins from a Big Brother poll in the week leading-up to the launch. The same night, 900 coins were dropped from the ceiling for the housemates to collect. It was also revealed during the launch that the housemate who sleeps in "Bed 13" would receive a special advantage; the chance to switch BigCoin totals with another housemate of her choice at the end of the task. Zoe won this power, and swapped coin totals with Lewis G.
	Exits	On Day 2, Ellis was removed from the house after social media posts came to light which producers of the show deemed to be "offensive and unacceptable". On Day 8, Anamélia became the first housemate to be evicted.
Week 2	Tasks	Kenaley won this week’s Game Changer competition and saved Isaac from eviction. This week's shopping task involved the housemates counting chickens - both real and fake - released in the house over two days. If housemates came within a margin of error of 35 from the actual total they would win a luxury shopping budget. Housemates failed this task.
	Punishments	On Day 9, Lewis G received a verbal warning for "cross-contaminating" food despite alarm being raised by Cameron and Akeem, and a formal warning for invading the personal space of Lewis F. On Day 10, Isaac received a verbal warning for saying that he would "smack" Lewis G on the outside world. On Day 13, as punishment for discussing nominations, Big Brother deducted 100 Big Coins from Lewis F's total.
	Exits	On Day 15, Lewis G became the second housemate to be evicted.
Week 3	Tasks	On Day 19, the nominated housemates, and Cian and Cameron took part in the Game changer task, which was a game of true or false based on their party from the previous night. Kenaley won this task and chose to save herself from eviction. On Day 20, this week's shopping task began involving the housemates going on a ‘trip’ to China and completing a variety of tasks throughout the trip without surpassing the undisclosed number of fails allowed. Tasks involved understanding Mandarin, performing Chinese dances and surviving the flight to and from China. Housemates were successful in this task.
	Exits	In the early hours of Day 19, Kay decided to voluntarily leave the house. On Day 22, Isaac became the third housemate to be evicted
	Entrances	On Day 22, Isabella and Hussain entered the house.
Week 4	Punishments	On Day 23, as punishment for discussing nominations, Big Brother deducted 100 Big Coins from Lewis F's total.
	Tasks	On Day 26, the third Gamechanger took place, where housemates had to stack a line of dominos. Nominees, Akeem, Kenaley, and Lewis F took part alongside richest housemate Cian, and Zoe and Sîan. Lewis F won this task and saved himself from eviction.

Nominations table

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5		Week 6	Week 7	Final Week 8	Nominations received
					Day 31	Day 36
Akeem	No nominations	Lewis G, Lewis F	Isaac, Cameron	Lewis F, Cameron	Tomasz, Cameron	Lewis F, Isabella				16
Brooke	No nominations	Lewis G, Lewis F	Kay, Tomasz	Lewis F, Akeem	Tomasz, Hussain	Isabella, Lewis F				3
Cameron	No nominations	Kay, Kenaley	Kay, Akeem	Akeem, Kenaley	Hussain, Isabella	Isabella, Sîan				6
Cian	No nominations	Isaac, Lewis G	Isaac, Kay	Lewis F, Akeem	Tomasz, Hussain	Lewis F, Akeem				3
Lewis F	No nominations	Isaac, Lewis G	Isaac, Tomasz	Kenaley, Sîan	Hussain, Isabella	Tomasz, Akeem				22
Sîan	No nominations	Lewis G, Tomasz	Kay, Lewis F	Lewis F, Akeem	Zoe, Hussain	Lewis F, Akeem				6
Tomasz	No nominations	Lewis G, Lewis F	Akeem, Lewis F	Akeem, Lewis F	Cian, Brooke	Cian, Lewis F				7
Zoe	No nominations	Lewis G, Sîan	Sîan, Akeem	Sîan, Kenaley	Cian, Sîan	Akeem, Isabella				1
Isabella	Not in House			Exempt	Akeem, Brooke	Akeem, Brooke	Evicted (Day 36)			6
Hussain	Not in House			Exempt	Lewis F	Evicted (Day 36)				5
Kenaley	No nominations	Lewis G, Lewis F	Kay, Cameron	Lewis F, Akeem	Evicted (Day 29)					6
Isaac	No nominations	Lewis F, Kenaley	Kay, Akeem	Evicted (Day 22)						7
Kay	No nominations	Isaac, Cameron	Cameron, Isaac	Walked (Day 19)						7
Lewis G	No nominations	Lewis F, Kenaley	Evicted (Day 15)							8
Anamélia	No nominations	Evicted (Day 8)								N/A
Ellis	Ejected (Day 2)									N/A
Notes	1	2, 3	2, 3	2, 3, 4	2, 5	6
Nominated (pre-save)	none	Isaac, Lewis F, Lewis G	Akeem, Brooke, Isaac, Kay, Kenaley	Akeem, Kenaley, Lewis F	Hussain, Isabella, Lewis F, Tomasz	Akeem, Isabella, Lewis F
Gamechanger Winner		Kenaley	Kenaley	Lewis F	Isabella	Lewis F
Against public vote	Anamélia, Kay, Sîan	Lewis F, Lewis G	Akeem, Brooke, Isaac	Akeem, Kenaley	Hussain, Lewis F, Tomasz	Akeem, Isabella
Ejected	Ellis	none
Walked	none		Kay	none
Evicted	Anamélia Most votes to evict	Lewis G Most votes to evict	Isaac Most votes to evict	Kenaley Most votes to evict	Hussain Most votes to evict	Isabella Cameron’s choice to evict

Notes

• ^Note 1 : In the first week, there were no nominations. Instead, housemates were tasked with collecting "Big Coins". The three housemates with the fewest amount faced the public vote.
• ^Note 2 :   This housemate was nominated by the public, as they received the fewest votes in an app poll.
• ^Note 3 : Each week, up to six Housemates, including the nominees and the richest housemate, will compete for the power to save a nominee from eviction.
• ^Note 4 : As new housemates, Hussain and Isabella were immune from nominations. Tomasz also bought immunity at the weekly auction.
• ^Note 5 : Hussain won the "Absolute Power Nomination" in a secret auction, and was therefore able to anonymously choose a housemate to face eviction. This was Lewis F, who was also ineligible to play in the Gamechanger and could not be saved by his fellow housemates.
• ^Note 6 : This week there will be two evictions. Following the regular eviction on Day 36, the housemates will instantly nominate, play the Gamechanger competition, which will result in another eviction during the remaining duration of the eviction show. The second eviction wasn’t decided by a Viewer Vote, but rather by the richest housemate, Cameron, who had the power to evict Akeem or Isabella.

Ratings

Official ratings are taken from BARB. For the first time, catch-up service totals were added to the official ratings.

	Viewers (millions)
	Week 1		Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8
Sunday		1.34	1.05	1.05	0.97
Monday		1.23	1.03	1.06
Tuesday		1.15	1.08	1.03
Wednesday		1.15	1.06	1.03
Thursday		1.21	1.08	1.11
Friday	1.30	1.14	1.08	1.02
Weekly average	1.20		1.06	1.05
Running average	1.20		1.13	1.10
Series average

External links

• Official website
• Big Brother at IMDb
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