Electronic Arts and Big Brother creators Endemol group recently announced they will be teaming up for the development of Virtual Me, an entertainment concept that allows online players to take part in virtual TV Shows.
Avatar based players will be able to try their luck at virtual versions of game shows such as "Deal or No Deal" and "1 vs 100", or talent shows like "Fame Academy". VirtualMe.com, the location of the Virtual Me avatar creation system, will launch later this year and the concept will debut on Big Brother.
Peter Bazalgette, Endemol's Chief Creative Officer says "...people are starting to spend more time online than they are watching TV. Both markets are now important and this has huge implications for content creators. Our opportunity with Electronic Arts is to develop ideas that fully embrace the way people are consuming entertainment today."
Oh you have got to be kidding me?
Why on Earth do people watch Big Brother? I mean, if I wanted to see bogans talking crap I would head to the train station...
I pity the development team behind this...
i really hope this doesn't turn into a trend like tv with all the reality tv shows.
i've been playing games instead of watching tv for the last couple of years since tv has become so boring, and now they are entering the games industry as well.
maybe there will be more of this with companies trying to attract more and more people into playing games.
Electronic Arts? Maybe they're making Sims online for Big Brother. They've got to get some people on Sims online somehow!
Games are the new TV!
I think TV media is wondering how the heck to do to draw back the audience and this is what they came up with. Pretty futile though, with youTube and online video sharing and movie + tv episodes purchases getting hugely popular, who cares about TV.
I'd rather bash my head against a wall than watch Big Brother
Thank god that we don't need to play it if we don't want...
well... cross that bridge when we get to it.
What annoys me more than the glut of pointless reality TV shows like Big Brother is the fact that they must actually be popular to be still running after so long. If they weren't making the commercial networks money, they wouldn't be on.
Your best form of protest against these shows is to turn them off.
The fact that they ARE popular, means a lot of people are watching and enjoying these shows, which is the biggest concern. Though funnily enough, no-one I talk to watches the show, in fact, many people quite freely express their disgust at it. Though I don't talk to that many primary and high-school kids... or downright thick people.
Big Brother will never go away. It has the same massive audience that loves Australia's funniest home videos, Today Tonight, and A Current Affair. All terrible terrible programs aimed at braindead Australians who flock to these programs like sheep.