Big Brother 11’s divided house borrows from Netherlands’ version’s “The Battle”

Big Brother 11 will somehow divide its house into two tribe-like groups, I first revealed yesterday, and commenter Joey Ortega pointed out that such a twist on the U.S. version would be borrowing from the original Netherlands version of the show.

For two seasons, starting in 2001, the Dutch version’s house was divided in half, in permanent groups during the third season and in groups that changed during the fourth season. Here’s how Wikipedia describes it:

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