'Big Brother 7: All Stars' - Live Feeds Report - Tuesday 8/29 Daytime

Today's grey cloudy skies and drizzle here in the Northeast reminded me of Danielle's mood. While she was one of my favorites during her season, I really had hoped for much better strategy this season than she exhibited. I think a part of it was not teaming up with the right person from the start hurt her.

Here are the events of the daytime hours (so far) in that Big Brother House of Bouncing Blondes, Brunettes, and Boys:

• Danielle was the "early riser" of the house today... at around 10 AM their time.
• She wandered a bit, changed the batteries in her microphone, and sneaked smokes behind the couch. [Editor's note: I find it funny that a 30-some year-old woman is so worried about her parents finding out she smokes!]
• Sigh... she started crying again as she reread the letter from home she received when she was the Head of House.
• She still can't believe no one wants to take her to or be with her in the end of the game. [Editor's note: A thought she's expressed a kazillion times between yesterday and today so far.]
• She apologized to James' girlfriend Sarah saying she tried to save him.
• George is taking full advantage of his Slopless Week.
• Danielle noticed that the plasma screen wasn't showing flames, but something else (no announcements).
• Mike Boogie confirmed to Erika that Chicken George was staying in the game Thursday.
• George cleaned the kitchen, then cleaned some more. [Editor's note: He can come to my place!]
• Mike once again proved he isn't the Master of His Domain. This time it was under the covers, but evident. [Editor's note: I think he's going for the in-house record for masturbation.]
• Will talked about East Coast feed watchers and what they could be saying about the houseguests staying up so late. [Editor's note: Vampires, I tell ya... vampires! Pale isn't the new tan. He's a vampire! Actually, Kaysar and Janelle were always the worst for staying up all night there which is a chunk into the day here.]
• Tonight the houseguests get the 5 Star restaurant meal won in the food comp. They've decided they'll all dress up and make it a Big Brother Date Night. Erika and Mike, George and Danielle, and Will and Janelle are the couples.

Just a moment to address a few things in comments and you may return to your regularly scheduled lives -

Anon wanted to know how to cancel the feeds. You have to call to cancel them. If you go to real.com, sign on to your account and then go to their help section, they have phone numbers listed.

Remember, folks... many places offer two weeks of free feeds. There are two weeks left of the show. Coincidence that I mention this? Not!

TDB wondered about my proposed Lost television show blogging. The start date for the series isn't until October. I'll be posting more on that soon. I'll be blogging about the show right here on this blog and I just know I'm going to be dependent on commenters to fill in loose ends, things I might miss, come up with theories and more!

Don't forget to watch tonight's show! I bet it will be bouncy-bouncy with the trampoline! And, sad with Danielle. And happy with George eating! Okay... I'll stop. I could go on, y'know...

'Big Brother 7: All Stars' - Live Feeds Report - Overnight Hours Into Tuesday 8/29

<--- Will Janelle turn in her POV Queen tiara for a HOH Queen tiara on Thursday? Only time will tell!

Here are the events from the late night and overnight hours into Tuesday from that Big Brother House of Wonky Weasels:

• The Red Room is off limits and has been since at least yesterday. I must have missed the "why" about it all. But, Big Brother yells at them everytime they try to go in there. So, the houseguests are pretty much delegated to the Ant Room and the HOH Room to sleep.
• Janelle complained about sitting next to a fat woman on a plane.
• Danielle told Erika that if the final two are Erika and Will, she (Danielle) will be faced with a difficult choice (and hints she'd vote for Will to win).
• Danielle said she didn't care that she lost to Jason in her season because he was deserving and she was loyal to him.
• Will, Janelle and Mike studied questions for the HOH comp on Thursday. They think it might be based on the questionnaires they filled out for the show. I don't know why they think that, but it is what it is.
• The HG talked about Treasure Hunters - Will thinks the Nerd Team had to be eliminated and they wonder what happened in the end. [Editor's note: Will's "Nerd Team" was the Geniuses, the winners of the show. He only saw the Mt. Rushmore fiasco.]
• The houseguests have decided to have a Date Night and plan to dress up. In the food comp, they won a 5 Star restaurant meal. They will have to suffer a day of slop before getting to the good food, though.
• While they were given some beer and wine for the night, Mike rallied to get them more. [Editor's note: Just what Danielle needs, eh?]
• Danielle mumbled to herself that the Diary Room wasn't calling her in to talk because she's going home.
• They played poker. Yawn.
• Erika headed to be relatively early for the house - about 12:30 AM their time.
• Mike Boogie told Will that Danielle told him that Erika and Janelle have a secret alliance. Uh-oh! [Editor's note: Keep in mind that this is the secret alliance Will encouraged as an act.]
• Will told Mike he wasn't surprised and that Erika was a "blabbermouth." Woogie decided they definitely trust Janelle more than Erika.
• They then decided (once again) that Erika must leave after Danielle is out of the house this week.
• Will told Janelle that if he, Mike and her are in the Final Three, he'll just walk away because he knows she wants to be against Mike in the end for votes. [Editor's note: I'm sure he's lying, aren't you?]
• Will told Janelle that Erika "came onto" Mike a few months before the season. Now he's worried that she may be influencing him.

As I post this, all the houseguests are sleeping, as they should be.

Graphic by Zoetawny.

'Big Brother 7: All Stars' - Live Feeds Report - Monday Evening 8/28

<--- When you have the live feeds, you have to deal with cameraman quirks. While Danielle and George were sitting in the kitchen talking, the cameraman (woman?) first shot from the side, then discovered the reflection could be captured in the mirror across the room. So, zoom in, zoom out, fuzzy image, sharpen it up.... argh.

Finally the cam in that mirror took over.

Here are the events from the evening in that Big Brother House of Dismal Danielle:

• Danielle once again asked Will and Mike Boogie if she had their votes. They told her yes. [Editor's note: Yeah, their votes to leave!]
• Will said that James shouldn't have been in All Stars because all he did was bite his fingernails and worry about the pool. [Editor's note: James has the worst nailbiting habit I've ever seen. He was always biting and picking at his nails. I'd be scared to see what they look like close up.]
• Janelle told Will that he was just jealous of S6 Players because they were so popular.
• The houseguests kept mentioning producers of the show by name, so we got flame/clouds with loud bad theme music each time.
• Janelle asked Will what he says in the Diary Room about her. He told her only good things. [Editor's note: @@ <-- deserving of an eyeroll!]
• In case he hadn't heard her tell it a dozen times already, Danielle told Chicken George that Erika didn't want to be in the finals with her because she couldn't beat her.
• Lots of talk about bad oysters, previous seasons, other shows, wrap parties, Miami bars and restaurants... but little strategy talk.
• Erika took a bath in the HOH bathroom. Alone.

No alcohol this evening; no drunken rampages. Although Danielle seems to be holding out some hope that she'll stay, I don't think she trusts Woogie at all, rightfully so. Most of the HG lounged around on the trampoline, including Danielle. Erika kept pretty much to herself.

BB7 - Regarding Thursday Evening Live Show Schedules

I've received several comments saying that football is pre-empting Big Brother in various areas on Thursday night. Now, we KNOW how important this live show will be!

I checked my schedule for the NYC viewing area and it's fine. As usual, I'll post the East Coast Updates as important things happen.

But, I have no clue about other areas. So, what I ask of you folks is to check your local listings for Thursday night. If it's regular time, don't worry. But if it's listed for a different hour, please note it in comments here with the viewing area, station/call letters so folks will know if it's the station they watch and the time you see it listed. Then on Thursday, I'll post a link to this post so folks can check to see if their area is listed. I'll also mention it in entries between now and then. That way, the information will all be gathered here.

If you don't have a hard copy, it's easy to find TV listings online. I recommend going to AOL TV Listings or Google "Yahoo TV Listings" or Zap2It.com -- just input your local information and any cable info... and you're set!


I go first!

NYC area, Channel 2 WCBS, regular time (8:00 PM ET)

'Big Brother 7: All Stars' - Live Feeds Report - Monday Daytime 8/28

Since a few folks asked - no, the houseguests have no clue about the double eviction slated for this Thursday. From the news released by CBS, it will be the first eviction, HOH comp, POV and eviction. Oh, and I'm sure they'll have to do another HOH comp, too. Yikes! None of us should blink or we'll miss something major. With various issues and Julie Chen errors we've seen so far this season, it should be very interesting if the show comes off without a hitch.

Here are today's events from the Big Brother House of Damsels in Distress:

• Despite her um... night imbibing... Danielle was up early and roaming the house and smoking (outside, of course).
• She muttered apologies to her husband and parents, and said out loud that she just wanted to go home, repeating the latter over and over again. Eventually she headed back to bed.
• At around 9:30 AM, BB announced that the Power of Veto Ceremony would begin in two hours.
• The houseguests stayed in bed.
• Once they did get up, Will told Erika to be strong. [Editor's note: I like how Will has taken charge of Mike's charge.]
• Erika seemed really down, saying she hates her life, she hates the house, she hates the camera... and so on.
• Erika told George that she was very disappointed with Danielle's behavior last night. (See this morning's entry.)
• She then went over scenarios to herself - can't send Will home because she doesn't have the numbers, can't send George home because that would be stupid, etc. She mumbled more about emotional blackmail. [Editor's note: I would think she meant coming from Danielle.]
• Will told her he was mad at Mike for not helping out. Perfect thing to say because... she's mad at him (Mike), too!
• Erika can't say enough good things about George, though.
• Janelle and Erika talked about how crazy Danielle acted last night. They were joined by Will and the talk continued. [Editor's note: I can bet it will be a topic for a long time to come. She really went over the edge. Thanks, alcohol... such a great invention, eh? Yes, I know she could have limited it, but they are in such an odd predicament. I doubt she'd do that at home. I don't think so, anyway.]
• Chicken George plans to wear his Santa suit for the POV Ceremony. At least someone is dressing for the event!
• It seems Mike wants to throw Danielle a sympathy vote. Will's not too pleased with that - Janelle already planned to give her one. So, Mike got in a snit saying she didn't have the right to do that. Will seems to really want the vote to be 3-0 so there's no margin of error. [Editor's note: A rift in the Riff-Raff?]
• Today's POV Ceremony only began a half-hour later than planned. And, as expected Janelle used her Power of Veto to save herself and Erika then nominated Danielle in her place.
• Danielle told Janelle to take Erika to the final two and she'd (Janelle) would have the votes to win the game.
• Danielle campaigned for votes. When she asked Will, he said he'd vote to keep her. He hinted that Mike Boogie wanted to give George a sympathy vote. [Editor's note: Liar, liar, pants on fire!]
• Erika told Danielle that she put her up because she's too loved, too strong, too good... too too.
• Danielle sobbed alone on the couch in the backyard, mumbled about no one wanting to take her to the finals with them and requested a Diary Room session.
• Will told George that people keep him because he's so bad at competitions.
• Danielle smoked behind the couch once again. This time we found out her parents would be upset. So, that's the reason she's been sneaking cigarettes!
• Woogie discussed the plan of action for when Danielle goes. Mike Boogie thinks it's best that Janelle gets the HOH. Will thinks that Mike can get rid of Erika at anytime since they got her to turn on her friend.
• Then, after Janelle gets the HOH, she can't compete the next week. So, it will be George, Will and Mike competing.
• Woogie's worst case scenario is that George wins HOH this week - he would put them on the block. They pondered about how to fix that situation.
• Will told Janelle she's going to be one of the final three (with himself and Mike).
• Will then told George he's in Chill Town now.
• Danielle wants more "libations" tonight. One would think last night's would have lasted a while for her. [Editor's note: @@ <--- gotta roll those eyes!]

So, that's where we stand. There isn't really any official official alliance with George, but it's obvious that Woogie might think it safer to bring him along as he would put them on the block. I think (could be wrong) that if Janelle wins this HOH, Erika would be the target. It's hard to tell how strong this Chill Town George is going to be - he doesn't trust Will and Mike, not at all.

A few other things - Chris in comments wanted to know why Danielle was so upset with Erika when she had talked about nominating/voting for Erika to leave a bit back. Well, I think that Danielle can be a bit of a control freak - that's why she's so upset with George, she can't control him. She thought she could control Erika and found out she can't. That's my take on it, anyway. And, yes, Chris... I think Erika does feel guilty.

Someone else wondered if they'll ask all the houseguests to pack their bags on Thursday, which would indeed be a giveaway of the double eviction. I really don't know - this double eviction done like this is a first for the show.

One more note: I've been being harassed by a fellow "blogger." He's left obscene comments and advertisements for his own blog. If you see any of those posts, please don't respond to them - they've been being removed since the start of the season. I thought his schooldays would give him new interests, but... sigh.

This blog is not a minute-by-minute kind of thing. I post generally early in the morning, after the dinner hour and late at night. Some days I post more than that. I'm sometimes not available to post during some comps or happenings and I encourage commenters to go ahead and post the news if they see it happening. However, advertisements for one blog in particular will be removed due to the vulgar comments, rude comments and obscene emails I've received from the blogger. I've told him since the season started that I wasn't happy with him mimicking exactly what I do here and that I don't want him using my blog to promote his own. His response is obscene email and comments here. He's also the "free speach" commenter. @@ Ignore him, please.