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CBS extends Big Brother 15, announces launch date

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CBS Press Release:

The summer reality hit BIG BROTHER will have a longer edition this summer, premiering two weeks earlier than previous years on Wednesday, June 26 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT).

BIG BROTHER will be broadcast three nights weekly — Tuesdays (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT, beginning July 2), the LIVE eviction show hosted by Julie Chen will be broadcast on Wednesdays (9:00-10:00 PM live ET/delayed PT, beginning July 3) and Sundays (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT, beginning June 30). The Wednesday live eviction show will move to 8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT on July 17 after the reality baking series completes its season order.

The "reality baking series" it refers to is the US version of The Great British Bake-Off (currently untitled)
 
Interesting... Here's hoping this means some sort of major shake-up from what we've normally come to expect from BBUS and is not just another rehash of pimping former HG's in to the game... Or teams, pairs, America's Player/Saboteur...

The schedueling is also pretty odd... BB IMO always seems to work better when the episodes are spaced evenly throughout the week... The last time this was attempted in the summer series the schedule was changed back to it's traditional schedule (Thursday/Sunday/Tuesday) one week in to the series...

Wikipedia also says that BB14 was the last series to be filmed in Standard Definition... If this is actually the case where they are updating camera's in the house could this possibly indicate a redesign of the outdated house floor plan? Grodner has said on several occasions that the house is not reconfigured often due to camera positioning... However if all the camera's are needing replacement it would be a great time to alter their positioning in the house... Given that it is unlikely the majority of camera's are actually taken down yearly during the houses retrofitting and any new camera is not likely to fit in the same location in the same manner...

Also given that BB is usually fairly open ended it is likely this series could end a week or two weeks earlier than it has in the past to make up for the early start and how the show rates....
 
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