Big Brother UK was the British version of the Big Brother franchise which originated in the Netherlands and is currently the second-longest-running Big Brother series. The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopia in which Big Brother can always spy on the inhabitants of the dictatorship he heads through their television sets, with the slogan "Big Brother is watching you".
The programme was first broadcast in the United Kingdom and Ireland a few days after premiere the US version. The main show was broadcast over 11 seasons on Channel 4 and E4 from Tuesday 18 July 2000 to Friday 10 September 2010. Channel 4 stated on 26 August 2009 that Big Brother would not be broadcast on either channel from 2011. By the end of the Channel 4 broadcasting, there had been 11 regular series, 22 series including spin-offs, 275 different housemates, and over 1000 episodes of Big Brother in the UK.
On 25 August 2010, it was announced that Richard Desmond had begun talks with Endemol to move Big Brother with its spin-offs to Channel Five from 2011 and beyond, However, on 28 September 2010, discussions between Richard Desmond a...
Big Brother UK was the British version of the Big Brother franchise which originated in the Netherlands and is currently the second-longest-running Big Brother series. The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopia in which Big Brother can always spy on the inhabitants of the dictatorship he heads through their television sets, with the slogan "Big Brother is watching you".
The programme was first broadcast in the United Kingdom and Ireland a few days after premiere the US version. The main show was broadcast over 11 seasons on Channel 4 and E4 from Tuesday 18 July 2000 to Friday 10 September 2010. Channel 4 stated on 26 August 2009 that Big Brother would not be broadcast on either channel from 2011. By the end of the Channel 4 broadcasting, there had been 11 regular series, 22 series including spin-offs, 275 different housemates, and over 1000 episodes of Big Brother in the UK.
On 25 August 2010, it was announced that Richard Desmond had begun talks with Endemol to move Big Brother with its spin-offs to Channel Five from 2011 and beyond, However, on 28 September 2010, discussions between Richard Desmond and Endemol UK over acquiring the rights to Big Brother were understood to have stalled and yet to be finalised, with the Channel 5 owner rumoured to be looking at alternatives including a new reality format from the hit show's co-creator John De Mol. An announcement will be made in coming months about the final decision whether Big Brother is to return in the UK, although no other media stated this.
On the 25th of November 2010 Mediatel hinted that a Big Brother revival is still on the cards for Channel 5. Big Brother's future will be revealed in January 2011, when Channel 5 reveal their line-up.
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