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Big Brother back in 2025 on 10! AND LIVE!
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If not a Celebrity edition, I think 10 should find some other way of filling the 4 weeks with new BB content that doesn't result in a rushed series.
For instance, how about inviting younger (adult) family members or close friends of former housemates to enter the house and use this as a platform to reintroduce the concept of live BB to Australia. Have those former HMs interviewed during live shows to get their opinion on what their family member or friend may be thinking or feeling, or what they would (or did) do differently, speak about the thrill of eviction night and Australia embracing them live etc. Think of this as a prelude to a full and proper 2026 BB season.
Perhaps they could even play into this a bit by having parts of the house look as though they are not quite finished yet, I don't know
. As I'd presume there wouldn't otherwise be that much of a change house-wise from 2025 to 2026.
For instance, how about inviting younger (adult) family members or close friends of former housemates to enter the house and use this as a platform to reintroduce the concept of live BB to Australia. Have those former HMs interviewed during live shows to get their opinion on what their family member or friend may be thinking or feeling, or what they would (or did) do differently, speak about the thrill of eviction night and Australia embracing them live etc. Think of this as a prelude to a full and proper 2026 BB season.
Perhaps they could even play into this a bit by having parts of the house look as though they are not quite finished yet, I don't know
. As I'd presume there wouldn't otherwise be that much of a change house-wise from 2025 to 2026.
If it was a shortened season of former housemates playing for a charity for christmas or something, and a new proper run season in 2026 I would be fine with that given the circumstances now. I think rather something like that than all new people for only a month.
kamui
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The record is 4 seasons in one year.. happened in Portugal a couple of years ago, when they had two 2-months celebrity seasons and a 1-month all-stars season back-to-back and then a regular 4-month season later in the year.
But I think even they are aware that it's not ideal and for the last two years, they tried to fill their schedule with a more diverse lineup of Big Brother-style shows. Don't think it worked that well though, because they're back to doing more Big Brother.. even though there is at least some variety in there by using the Secret Story format as well.
The year started with an all-stars edition of Secret Story, followed by the glass house twist being turned into its own Big Brother warm-up kind of show and then this year's regular civilian season of Big Brother. Which will immediately be followed by a summer edition of Big Brother, which relies on celebrities, influencers and regular visitors (similar to the German civilian season, I guess). I don't think they've made an official announcement for the last quarter of the year yet, but I guess it will be another run of Secret Story.
So depending on how people want to count seasons and spin-offs, it might be up to 5 seasons of Big Brother by the end of the year... even though I wouldn't count it as 5.
Zcsund1234
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How annoying that Channel 7 already did that Back to Win season in 2022. An All stars for Ch10 would have been the perfect solution for this scenario. The 2022 season didn't rate well, but it did well enough to render another All Stars redundant 3 years later.
Although in saying that David, Reggie and Trevor would not be necessary for a third appearence. If this really is the case then TEN should consider contacting their specific alumni for a small returnee season. A four week series would be really unfair to both the audience as well as the cast.
Although in saying that David, Reggie and Trevor would not be necessary for a third appearence. If this really is the case then TEN should consider contacting their specific alumni for a small returnee season. A four week series would be really unfair to both the audience as well as the cast.
I know, right? That's what led me to the idea to have past HM family or friends enter instead, and leave those past HMs to get involved in different ways. Otherwise if it is too same-same as 7's All Star season (cast wise) then I feel like it could remind potential viewers of all the wrong done by 7, leaving some to either not become as invested in 10's reboot or not bother with it at all ... no matter how well 10 pulls it off.
Zcsund1234
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Exactly, this is a really frustrating stalemate for fans. I like the idea of cast member's families or something along those lines. If Masterchef wasn't so much locked in for April-July then Ten could have just used this one month to air something as prep for a proper season 6 months later.
Furthermore it makes no sense to air BB against MAFS in Q1, that would kill its chances of optimising its fanbase grab. So Q4 seems to be the only place it can logically fit in. TEN would have been better off delaying BB till Q3 2026 and probably also doing two 24 episode seasons of Survivor to compensate for 2025.
I understand Survivor AU vs The World was already being finalised and that this holdback would have caused headaches, but a one month civilian season is one of the weaker decisions to go forth with IMO.