[1] Big Brother Panto aired from 20 December 2004 to 5 January 2005 and was presented by Jeff Brazier.
[2] On 28 December, there was a live show on E4 at 11am where comments and suggestions from the public were read to the housemates.
[9] On 27 December, Channel 4 accidentally broadcast the first half of the late-night E4 show, containing adult language and content, pre-watershed on T4.
From Big Brother 1 were Nick Bateman and Melanie Hill, from series two was Narinder Kaur, from Big Brother 3 was Tim Culley, Jade Goody and Spencer Smith, from the fourth series was Anouska Golebiewski and the fifth series' was represented by Victor Ebuwa, Kitten Pinder and Marco Sabba.
[12][16][17] The stage manager was Ruth and the voice coaches were Mike and Nick.