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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch authorities are investigating plans by the
producers of the "Big Brother" reality television show to include a
pregnant contestant who will give birth on the show.

Talpa, the new television station launched earlier this month by the
billionaire creator of Big Brother John de Mol, will broadcast a new
series from Sunday in which a contestant is due to give birth six
weeks into the show.

A spokeswoman for the social affairs and labor ministry confirmed a
report in De Telegraaf daily on Saturday that inspectors were
examining a request by Big Brother producers for the newborn baby to
be allowed to appear on the program.

The ruling Christian Democrats have condemned the idea of a birth on
the live show, but the 27-year-old pregnant contestant identified only
as Tanja defended the idea.

"I think that my child will be proud of it later," she told De
Telegraaf.

The show's director Hummie van der Tonnekreek said Tanja would be well
looked after in the Big Brother house, where a group of 12 strangers
are locked in together and gradually voted out by the audience.

"She will get the maximum attention and care," Van der Tonnekreek
said.

Versions of the show first aired in the Netherlands in 1999 have since
been produced in dozens of countries worldwide.

This subject was discussed in Finnish BBPlaza recently. The Dutch BB has began 24th of August, so the show has been going on last 5 days by now. Everyone on a Finnish-forum seems to be against it, because of the intimacy of the birth, fathers rights to be involved in delivering and of course people are scared of mothers and childs health and safety!

Hi,

Off topic ,do you know if there are any free web feeds for the Finnish show ? I haven't scanned the satellite at 1 West yet as I expect the satellite coverage to be encrypted.

I think that only free site in a web is http://www.subtv.fi/bigbrother/ and there's no any free web feeds for our show. I haven't ever tried to scanned the satellite - good luck with that! Maybe Finnish knowledge of technologue is so high that there won't be found any other free web feeds. The whole serie with NETTI-TV passport costs that 25 €'s that Liisi already told you. Maybe we both can help you to translate the information that you don't understand that's written in Finnish.

When you qluick that NETTI-TV, you'll be on site http://nettitv.mtv3.fi/bblive

I'll let you know about the translations.
I subscribed to the Norway/Sweden show again this year and only go stuck when to came to creating the login password .But with the aid of another forum I figured to out in the end.

My Fortec staellite receiver is currently scanning the satellite at 1 west looking for signals before it looks for stations. It is a really good receiver for finding the signals the others missing but sadly it can not decode them all. But it got me most of the Sunday live shows for BBSE/NO. I will be checking out the Dutch show which is free and then maybe subscribing to the Finnish show. I need to get a regular interesting BB show to maintain the interest ,and the UK don't appear to be able to do this any more ,luckily the Australian show was running at the same time which was more interesting.

Scan complete 249 channels found but not Big Brother channel.

That satellite receiver sounds interesting! The Finnish Show started really peacefully yesterday and few of them didn't sleep until it was 4 a.m over here (2 a.m over there). But they are only getting to know each other.

But back to topic - Germaine Greer has commented reality TV series quite sharply, as she always does (thanks Jim D for another topic). I have to say that I fear that the next level (they have had live sex at BB House, they seems to going to have delivery at BB House and they have had handicapped person at BB House) is going to be that they let someone, who's incurable ill, to die in BB House.

I find BB interesting without any extreme things to happen in House, with ordinary people in it, but if it's going to be extreme show - I'd quit to watch it - no more!

hecklerspray
30 August 2005 at 14:30

Stay calm, U.K viewers

This is the Dutch version of Big Brother we're talking about. We're just going to have to settle for simpleton nightclub dancers and drunken Burberry-rats shoving champagne bottles up their mimsies.

Newly launched TV station Talpa is the force behind this viewer-grabbing plan - shoving a pregnant contestant into the confines of the camera-stashed house a mere six weeks before sprog-dropping is set to commence.

Rather unsurprisingly, the plan has been attracting criticism from far and wide. The Christian Democratic Party has raised a big moral eyebrow over the whole thing. Numerous newspapers have been calling for the show to be cancelled. And a quick poll of the hecklerspray office revealed the scheme to be widely considered "the sad, attention-grabbing antics of a deluded, clueless ****."

The case for the defence has been swift in raising the barricades, however. Show director Hummie Van Der Tonnekreek - seriously, that's his name - has claimed that both unlucky baby and lunatic mother will "get maximum care and attention" during their stay upon the nation's television screens.

Head of production Paul Roemer also threw in his two cents. "I think it will be good T.V," he said. "I am doing something that will bring about emotions and which is innocent and can do no harm." Well, yes. Exactly. A well-balanced argument that could, however, be offset by one glaring fact - that a woman is giving birth on a freaking gameshow.

This isn't the first time that Talpa has courted controversy. They're kind of like the Channel 4 of Holland - except with less Jimmy Carr and better-scheduled episodes of Lost. High-concept shows so far include a series in which "five prostitutes set up a business" and "two people who have never met before become engaged."

30 August 2005
Mirror

A HEAVILY-pregnant woman on the Dutch version of Big Brother could have her baby live on TV.

"Tanja", who is due in about 49 days, believes the reality show is "an ideal place to give birth".

The 27-year-old became pregnant by mistake and has shocked contestants by smoking several cigarettes since entering the house last Wednesday.

Big Brother producers said they do not yet know what they will do if she goes into labour, but will not take medical risks. A spokeswoman said: "She may be voted off first."

Reactions have been muted in the Netherlands, where rules on nudity and sex are relatively relaxed.

The Dutch Social Affairs Ministry will decide later this week whether to grant a work permit for the baby - as a child actor.

06 Sep 2005 15:01:02 GMT
Source: Reuters

AMSTERDAM, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Dutch authorities said on Tuesday the producers of reality programme "Big Brother" must limit appearances by a baby due to be born to a contestant in a little over a month.

Talpa, the television station launched last month by the billionaire creator of Big Brother, John de Mol, has been accused of planning to exploit the newborn baby on its show.

A spokeswoman for the social affairs and labour ministry confirmed a Dutch media report which said that for reasons of health and safety, the programme's makers could film the child for only two hours a day and for a maximum of eight days.

The Netherlands has strict rules for child actors.

The ruling Christian Democrats have condemned the idea of a birth on the live show but the 27-year-old pregnant contestant, identified only as Tanja, has defended it.

"I think that my child will be proud of it later," she told the newspaper De Telegraaf last month.

Unlike other "contestants", who must stay in the house until they are either voted off the programme or finally win, the baby will be able to leave the Big Brother house with family members and will have its own room where it may not be filmed.

A nanny -- probably the baby's grandmother -- will have unlimited access to the child.

Versions of Big Brother first aired in the Netherlands in 1999 and have since been produced in dozens of countries worldwide.

No live TV birth for Big Brother

Tanja has been criticised on the show for smoking
A pregnant woman on the Dutch Big Brother will not be allowed to give birth live on TV, authorities ruled.

Restrictions on the hours the baby will be able to appear on screen once it has been born have also been put in place.

Contestant Tanja joined the series seven months pregnant, and permission had to be granted for the baby to appear under child labour laws.

Show producers said: It's not a show about birth, but about people in a social process."

The ruling from the Social Affairs ministry means that the baby will only be able to be on screen once a day for eight days and must be kept in a separate room with no cameras.

"The mother of the child that stays in the Big Brother house will have free access to the baby's room," the ministry said in statement.

"The same goes for a caregiver who is not part of the show, presumably one of the (child's) grandmothers."


The baby will also be allowed to leave the confines of the house with a family member.

A spokesman for Talpa, which is broadcasting the show, said Tanja could still faced being voted off the show by the public so the ruling could be redundant.

Tanja and the baby will receive excellent medical care, production company Endemol said.

But the 27-year-old has been criticised by other members of the show for smoking while pregnant. BBC

Thu / 08 Sep 2005
jossip

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Bad news for the pregnant fetishists: Dutch Big Brother contestant Tanja will not be allowed to give birth on live television, after a much publicized debate as to whether reality TV cameras would be able to tape and air the event.

The ruling from the Social Affairs ministry means that the baby will only be able to be on screen once a day for eight days and must be kept in a separate room with no cameras.
"The mother of the child that stays in the Big Brother house will have free access to the baby's room," the ministry said in statement.

"The same goes for a caregiver who is not part of the show, presumably one of the (child's) grandmothers."

Baby born in Dutch Big Brother house


A contestant on the Dutch Big Brother television reality show gave birth to a baby girl in the house.

The contestant, Tanja, gave birth to a girl she named Joscelyn Savanna, according to Talpa, the television station launched by billionaire creator of Big Brother John de Mol.

Talpa, which has been accused of planning to exploit the newborn to boost the show's ratings, published pictures of Tanja, her mother and the baby on its website as well as comments from the other contestants on the birth.

The 27-year-old from the northern town of Groningen, who was already seven months pregnant when she entered the Big Brother house, gave birth in a special room. newsnine

Photo of Mother & child with this link


BIG BROTHER'S FIRST BIRTH
A woman has given birth in front of the cameras on the Dutch version of Big Brother.

Tanja - a contestant on the reality TV programme - gave birth to a healthy daughter.

She is hoping the footage will boost her chances of winning the programme's 400,000 euros prize.

The birth will be allowed to be shown on TV after talks between the producers and the Social Affairs Ministry.

"It will not show any explicit scenes," said Stephanie Dekker, from the Talpa network.

She said medical and educational TV programmes had shown more graphic footage of births.

The government has also set down guidelines for producers to abide by in televising the new baby.

This includes only showing the baby on air for a maximum of eight hours over the duration of the show, which ends on December 22.

She must also stay in a room where cameras are not allowed, and where her mother and grandparents may be with her in private. Sky