Below you can watch the Big Brother house tour with Julie Chen. Quirkydude has come through as usual with a great copy of the video saving me the hassle of capturing it and posting it myself. Here are a few of the interesting points you can catch in the video and my thoughts.

Same layout as the most recent seasons – no new room or anything. The farthest back bedroom was not revealed on the tour but it was teased and seems to be a very cold / sterile type of room. And what I always think of as the ‘Gold’ bedroom (from season 6) and was a boat bedroom last season is all tiled as if you are under a pool. The acoustics in that room have got to stink!

Only one of the two showers has hot water – and Julie implied if you lost a food challenge you have to use that side all week (and may have to sleep in the ‘bad’ bedroom.

There is a very heavy ‘recycling’ or ‘green’ theme in the house but I have to be honest and say it all seems like just another excuse for design. I mean Julie will tell you that the plastic plants are green because they require no water? How about real plants that would produce oxygen? And plastc is made from petroleum products. There will also be a portable garden in the back yard – it will be interesting to see if they can keep the stuff alive.

The workout room has two stationary bikes in it – seems like a step down from the elliptical they have had in there before.

Also out back are a couple solar powered lamps, of course there is no way the two little lights will offset the energy used by the lights needed for the cameras but I guess they would argue it is getting the green message out

Some things that are the same outside – the hammock, hot tub, pool and pool table all back again this season in the back yard.

Anyways – those are a few thoughts – check out the video for yourself below – and be sure to sign up for the live feeds before the early bird special ends July 8th!

Wow, hard to believe Big Brother 11 is finally upon us! I took a two week vacation and I knew things were going to happen this last week and did they ever.

After weeks of almost absolute silence from CBS and the Big Brother production staff, we have been hit with loads of information about the 12 contestants, the ‘new,’ ‘green’ Big Brother house, and the ‘mystery house guest’ that will be joining the HGs.

I’ll be posting in the next day or so my thoughts on many of these things and update the website as well with pictures and resources. Then when the feeds begin on Thursday/Friday I will be updating as usual with information on what is going on in the house in my own style.

If you are ‘new’ to this site you can review the other seasons via links on the left, what you will find is I keep people up to date with the REAL news – and this site is always full of TONS of spoilers – if you only watch the TV show and don’t want to know who is going home than this is not the site for you.

I reveal alliances, schemes, back stabbing, as well as talk about the way CBS and the producers edit the live feed content for television to add to the ‘drama’ that a lot of times doesn’t exist and to not reveal other things that do go on including what many of us consider the producers attempts to manipulate the votes. Hey, its a reality and you should just accept it – this isn’t a ‘game’ show, its a reality show that we get to see taped for almost 24 hours a day – 7 days a week.

So sign up for the Early Bird Special via the link below, it expires July 8th, before the feeds kick in – with it you get the entire season for $29.99 – the show will run through September so you can look at it as just $10 a month for 24×7 live feeds and the ability to go back in time to any moment you might have missed with the new Flashback feature! You also get $10 of music downloads a month, something I explained in detail on my other site, Bigbrothergossip.