History of Big Brother: Millions of us have tuned in since to watch the sometimes-hilarious, sometimes-depressing spectacle of strangers going at each other’s throats in a house full of cameras. The concept is so simple, yet so effective, that it’s amazing nobody ever thought of it sooner. Only somebody did think of it, back in 1949 – half a century before the first Big Brother was aired. The sinister premise for the show was actually a classic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Penned by English author George Orwell, the book offered a vision of a bleak future where citizens were under constant state surveillance, and where the government has absolute power.
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The anti-communist book, set in the year 1984, is all about one man’s struggle against the CCTV-loving state – and it’s all-seeing, all-powerful figurehead, Big Brother.
Meanwhile, the long-running show, which continues with Celebrity Big Brother tonight, is all about cramming people in a house under the watchful eye of a cruel, all-seeing overlord, with cameras rolling 24/7 in every room.
In the TV show, and its celebrity offshoot, Big Brother is an unseen, godlike figure, who controls the housemate’s lives and emotions by doling out privileges or inflicting punishments. Just like in the book, if someone ever sets a foot wrong, Big Brother knows about it, and at the same time he’s the only person they can ever speak to who isn’t a fellow housemate.
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