Big Brother back in 2025 on 10! AND LIVE!

[Zcsund1234]

I mean, to be fair, 30 days isn't long, but if there is live streaming so you can access it whenever you want, a month isn't a bad start.
People will be screaming for it to go longer, then Ten will be like "oh well I suppose we can shorten the 2026 season of Masterchef" (for the love of God please!)

It is what it is at the end of the day, I'll still watch if only for four weeks. But you would hope it is only because they were forced into it and did not take inspiration from BBUK's short run. It's funny because of all the shows on TEN that could still thrive with a significant decrease in length its actually Masterchef. It does not need to run for 3 and a half months. One month would probably do a lot better for its pacing and they could still get away with having 12-16 people for a 4-6 week run as well.

 

[BB12]

I'm very surprised MC is still going, I'm guessing it was the replacement for BB? Started in April 2009... I think it's time BB reclaimed its rightful place. But yeah, as long as they bring the theme back, some form of opening titles, and given the rest of the boxes have been ticked (live shows/streaming etc) then I'll be hooked

 

[Rison]

instead pointing to https://eu.castitreach.com/a/esgau/bigbrothers5/ (with CH7 era background)

The last Seven finale ended with Sonia promoting that casting was open for the next season, so would've been for that.

 

[Being Big Brother]

Well at least it won't be the shortest series EVER

I found some shorter ones! Big Brother Hungary VIP 3 was 5 days, and Big Brother Germany has done a couple of 57-hour (the wiki counts them as 3 days, but they're closer to 2) spin-offs featuring well-known streamers. French-Canadian Big Brother has done some one-day, one-episode spin-offs, although I don't know at what point it stops even counting as "Big Brother".

As for the shortest ever non-spinoff season... the wiki isn't very helpful, and it looks like World of Big Brother stopped updating in 2014 (RIP), but I think Big Brother UK currently holds the record with 41 days, last year.

It doesn't really count, but there's an honourable mention: Big Brother Arabia was cancelled after 11 days, due to controversy about men and women cohabiting. They had their first round of nominations, but didn't make it to the first eviction.

 

[BBFan2021]

I presume you mean this link: https://eu.castitreach.com/a/esgau/bigbrother

Oddly https://bigbrothercasting.com.au doesn't currently point there, instead pointing to https://eu.castitreach.com/a/esgau/bigbrothers5/ (with CH7 era background)

This is assuming that Endemol is going to be the producer for Big Brother. ITV also has a great team that know how to do 24-hour turn around shows, channel 10 could also be going with them instead (as they do with Imma Celeb etc)

 

[Brekkie]

Not ideal at all to be so short and I don't think in Ten's interest - even if they're nerve about committing for 2-3 months you'd think cost wise it just wouldn't be economical to do it for such a short period.

Personally it's a no brainer to push it back to 2026 and there is enough flex in the schedule. Survivor holds up against MAFS so I wouldn't be too scared to put Big Brother in that slot, push Survivor back to after Easter then Masterchef a bit later. Or of course just leave Big Brother until it's traditional slot after Easter, or even Q3 would work - Seven and Nine seem to be at their weakest in Q2 - Q3.

Not to praise Seven but they announced the return of Idol in Oct 2020 and didn't put it to air until Jan 2023, and though not a mega hit it is at least a returning format for them. Better to give the show the chance to be ready to air rather than rush it, even if it meant delaying it nearly a year. The BBUK revival took 14 months from announcement to launch too having been pushed back around six months.


If it's as short as 4 weeks (or even 5 or 6) I think a half weekly cycle is a must with evictions probably Sun/Wed and nominations on Mon/Thu. At four weeks assuming a Sunday launch you'd have the first eviction the following Sunday, then two evictions a week for the next three weeks with the final then in it's traditional Monday slot, giving them 7 live evictions and a final.