Big Brother (2000)

Genre

reality television

Country

United States

Length

28 seasons, 985 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 268 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of people live together in a house cut off from the outside world. They compete in challenges and vote to evict each other until one person remains to win a cash prize.

repetitivetenseformulaiccompetitivevoyeuristicdramaticsocialslow-paced

What happens

Big Brother is an American reality competition television show based on the Dutch show of the same name created by producer John de Mol Jr. and Ron Diesel in 1997. The American series launched on July 5, 2000, on CBS and since the ending of the Spanish version in 2022, is the longest-running adaptation in the Big Brother franchise. The show broadly follows the premise of other versions, in which a group of contestants, known as "houseguests", live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world and compete for a cash prize. The Houseguests are continuously monitored during their stay in the house by live television cameras as well as personal audio microphones. While its inaugural season followed the original Dutch format, in which audience voting determined evictees and the eventual winner, the negative critical reception and low viewership resulted in the series being revamped for the second season, which focused on competition and gameplay. Under this revamped format, the houseguests compete in challenges to win power and safety before voting to evict each other from the house. The last remaining houseguest wins the competition and is awarded a cash prize. The series is named after the fictional totalitarian dictator from George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The show's twenty-eighth season, which will include the series' 1000th episode, premiered on July 9, 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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