Big Brother gone full circle

like it has gone full circle and there is nothing more the producers or sponsors can offer to retain the spark, suspense or surprises. If we learn anything from the history of the show, most people will remember how messy the last season of Big Brother All Stars was after the firm favourite, Zimbabwe’s Munyaradzi Chidzonga, lost to Nigerian Uti Nwachwuku, in a move that smacked foul play and hypocrisy.

Only on Monday night, in what Big Brother thought to be a “TWIST” of the season, the Heads House and Tails House were merged.
Even on the website Big Brother wrote: “What a twist! Goes to show, Big Brother is super unpredictable!”

But these are the same mistakes that have made the reality series a drab and unfair not to housemates but to viewers of the show who pay their money to vote and watch.
Already, some of us feel duped because this week it was supposed to be the Tailsmates’ turn to nominate and evict come Sunday.

It can be argued that the merging of the houses is likely to disfavour some housemates especially the Zimbabwean pair of Wendall and Vimbai who have proved to be strong contenders since the beginning of the show.

Vimbai has survived a record three times while she has been Head of House twice and in both instances she never got to enjoy her benefits as Wendall survived his first eviction last weekend with popular votes.
It can also be argued that any decision by Big Brother to introduce twists will be met with suspicion.

As most Zimbabweans remember, M-Net who are behind the show always want to give back to their biggest markets in programmes like Idols and Big Brother Africa.
In this case, there is absolutely that drive to ensure that either a housemate from Angola or Nigeria again will win the show after 91 days.

Just look at how Angola has been rewarded on such programmes as Top Mais that offers nothing but Angolan music. And coincidentally Weza was the host of the music programme before she went into the house.
And, of course, there is plenty of Nigerian music on Channel O and Nollywood films on AfricaMagic.

What is clear, though, is Nigerian only programmes like Idols or Big Brother are not only drivel but also lack participation from other countries.
So M-Net would always want to include other countries for greater participation and yet they bring the same results.

Since the two houses have merged we wonder how on earth two winners will be selected unless, of course, there is going to be another way of separating the housemates based on gender and things like two housemates from the same country.

So far, we have Nigeria, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe with two housemates each. It would be fair to make sure that Vimbai and Wendall, Kim and Mumba, Vina and Karen or Zeus and Miss P are not put in the same house.
For now, Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa still feel cheated from the previous season of Big Brother. Is Africa going to accept the results of Season Six without feeling cheated again?