Big Brother 

Contestants must compete against each other for a chance to win $500,000 in a house wired with cameras and microphones, capturing their every move for a TV and Internet audience.

Creators:

John de Mol, Ron Diesel

Stars:

Julie Chen Moonves, Clayton Halsey, Phil Proctor

4 wins & 6 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Clayton Halsey	...	Announcer 549 episodes, 2005-2019
Julie Chen Moonves	...	Self - Host 396 episodes, 2000-2021

Storyline

Based on the Dutch series, thirteen strangers who are living in a studio-like house that's filled with cameras and microphones, compete in a series of physical and mental stunts, and some challenging trivia at a chance at $500,000 in this reality soap opera-like summer program. Thirteen of those house guests live in 13 different states. America will watch every single move they compete to be the last one standing, after having twelve house guests evicted. These strangers are the contestants who think they have absolutely nothing in common, and a few are in a shock for their lives. The house guests begin to introduce other people at the Big Brother house. It's the first time they will get to know each other and they're not allowed to say not one word with them until they are in the Big Brother house. The thirteen will be living in the same house for the following two months. They may either find their best friend or worst enemy in that group; and in the end, it's one men for themselves...

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Plot Keywords:

cbs | house | based on tv series | competition | docudrama | 

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Taglines:

1 house. 10 strangers. 28 cameras. They live. You watch. (Season 1)

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Genres:

Game-Show | Reality-TV

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Did You Know?

Trivia

Controversy sparked over the finale of Big Brother 3 where contestant Danielle lost to winner Lisa due to all of the evicted house guests being able to go home and watch all of the show, including diary room sessions which ultimately lead to her losing by a vote of 9 to 1. This seems to be the influence for evicted house guests having to be sequestered without seeing any private footage of the show before casting to their vote, known as the jury of seven that has been in the show since.

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Goofs

Frequent continuity errors. It's clear that many scenes were filmed hours or days apart and then edited together with =out consideration for whether or not they visually flowed together.

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Quotes

[week 5, in the diary room, after the PoV competition]
Will Kirby: Hey Boogie, did you win PoV today?
Mike Malin: Nah. I won a trip to Aruba for two and a plasma television. Did you win PoV?
Will Kirby: No... I won uh, five thousand bucks.
[both look at camera with serious faces before bursting out in laughter]

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Crazy Credits

At the end of every eviction episode, Julie Chen Moonves ends the episode by saying 'lets eavesdrop on the house guests' and while the credits are rolling there is a live feed on the house guests.

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Connections

Featured in CBS Summer Preview (2015)

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Soundtracks

Big Brother theme
(uncredited)
by David Vanacore and Ken Berry

User Reviews

Being Bullyed

I have watch this show since it can on and I can't believe that this show has come to this kind of bullying I never heard of anybody being this mean on here and Josh man that boy can really get his self hurt Julie Chan you should know better then to let that happen cause Mark has been bullied before and Josh doing that I can't just sit here and watch this show anymore if yall thank that it's OK for this kind of mess to go I can't put myself to watch it anymore...Santeaq

Details

Official Sites:

CBS [United States] Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 July 2000 (USA)

Also Known As:

Big Brother 2

Filming Locations:

CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Evolution Film & Tape, Arnold Shapiro Productions, CBS

Technical Specs

Runtime:

44 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1