Network: ABC
Episodes: 10 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: June 18, 2012 – August 20, 2012
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Oracle the computer voice
 |
TV show description:
This TV show is billed as an “interactive real-time reality competition” in which viewers help make the decisions about who stays and who goes home.
The game begins with 14 contestants of both sexes and varying backgrounds as they live together and compete for $250,000 in a totally wired, state-of-the-art glass house. They aren’t just playing the game with each other though. They’re also playing the game to win over the audience.
While in the house, the contestants split into two groups and compete in various physical and mental competitions. The captains of the two teams are the two contestants who have received the least amount of votes from the public. After losing a challenge, the captain of the losing team is sent to limbo, along with a second member of that team which is voted on by the house.
Through social networks and online, viewers are encouraged to support and follow the contestants they like and those that they don’t. Viewer votes help determine which contestants are sent home and also which eliminated players will earn the chance to return to “The Glass House” to compete again. (The contestants receive two days out of the house, in which they are taken to a hotel and sequestered from each other and outside game communications.)
Several times a week, viewers can watch a live online feed of the players and vote to decide everything from what they wear and eat, to the games they play, even where they sleep. Viewers will also have the chance to give their favorite players feedback on their game from outside the house. How the contestants use that information is up to them, because in the end it’s about who plays the best social game and the most important alliance a player can have is with their fans.
The contestants are spoken to by a robotic female voice, which they refer to as the “Oracle” or “Ori”. The name was decided by the public.
Series Finale
Episode #10
The final three contestants are Andrea, Erica, and Kevin. Kevin Braun was announced the winner and took home $250,000. Erica Russell was runner-up and Andrea Clark placed third.
First aired: August 20, 2012.
What do you think? Did you like Glass House? Are you sorry that it’s not coming back for a second season?
Newer and/or Related Articles
-
110 Ending or Cancelled TV Shows for the 2012-13 Season
May 17, 2013 -
![Cancelled or Renewed? ABC TV Shows Status [5/16/13]](http://cdn.tvseriesfinale.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/abc-tv-shows-26-88x66.jpg)
Cancelled or Renewed? ABC TV Shows Status [5/16/13]
May 16, 2013 -
The Glass House: Reality Series Cancelled by ABC
May 15, 2013 -
ABC Summer 2012 TV Ratings
Sep 8, 2012 -
The Glass House: Summer 2012 Ratings
Aug 29, 2012 -
Cancelled & Renewed ABC TV Shows for 2011-12
Aug 29, 2012 -
The Glass House: ABC Announces New Competition Series
Apr 30, 2012
{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }
I liked the show but the limited hours of voting made it hard for me, I always missed them and it needed to be on more often then once a week. But I am a huge fan of Big Brother so I liked this. I disagree it is the worst show, the worst show is Honey Boo Boo, it is discusting and gross.
It’s okay but I rather have the show V, I can’t believe ABC cancelled it
This show was so poorly produced. It didn’t make any sense. The same old “house guest” reality show type cast was chosen. If you have seen any season of Big Brother, then there you go. They were trying to pretend as if it was a live show with contestants entering into the house for the first time. Except by the 2nd commercial break everyone already knew in-depth information about each other and they had changed clothes at least 3 times. The shows new hook is that America is supposed to vote in and tell the house guest what to do. However by the time the first objective was read (which by the way was bikinis and hot tub) it was painfully obvious that the producers had already decided what the contestants objectives were going to be all while repeatedly telling viewers that we somehow voted on what they were doing in the house. Again the show had only been on for 5 min. Nothing was ever explained. The contestants walked out in jump suits to play a game based on who knows who best and America again was supposed to have already voted and given the contestants their task based on there personalities (Again all within 5min of the shows initial airing). By the end the show supposedly only 24hrs had passed although it was obvious by the way they were talking and the multiple wardrobe changes, they had been in the house about 4-5 days. One of the male contestants who for some reason was acting like a bad talk show host, started to just randomly berate and badger the women of the house because he said that America voted in ( Again when did we vote in?) and told him to start acting that way. 2 min later he was voted out the house and “this is the kicker” . The contestants for unexplained reasons had rocks in there hands that they then placed on a pedestal in front of a flat screen tv, LOL What? And one by one they all started miming shooting, throwing, punching, flicking and I think there was a sling shot in their… at the screen which then showed exploding glass with each vote. (I mean really…) are you guy’s sure you thought this show through… Or were you just trying to get this crap on the air before CBS’s Big Brother law suit takes affect and the show is halted mid season.
@Brain- To answer your question about the ‘rocks’. There is a famous saying that goes, “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” Based off of that saying, I assume that is how we get the connection of the corny ‘rock throwing’ and the title ‘Glass House’.
Everything else you had to say was spot on. (:
Xx
I love the show it is funny and dramatic. i cannot believe you dont like it Judy.
Worst show ever (almost ever). This show was painful to watch. A live host might improve things but overall it’s no Big Brother!