Big Brother (British series 20)

Big Brother 2023, also known as Big Brother 20, is the upcoming twentieth series of Big Brother. It will be the first series to air on ITV2 after ITV gained the rights to the series in August 2022, almost four years since it last aired on Channel 5. The series is set to begin in autumn 2023 and will be co-presented by AJ Odudu and Will Best.

Big Brother
Series 20
Eye teaser
Hosted by
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of episodes36
Release
Original networkITV2
Original release2023 (2023)
Series chronology

Production

In April 2022, it was reported in several tabloid newspapers that ITV Studios were in talks with production company Banijay, who own the rights to Big Brother, to revive the series in 2023, following a five-year hiatus.[1][2] On 1 August 2022, during the final of the eighth series of Love Island, a 20-second teaser trailer aired on ITV2, with ITV subsequently confirming that the show would return for a new series in 2023. ITV are the third network to gain the rights to the series, following the cancellations of the show on Channel 4 and Channel 5 in 2010 and 2018 respectively.[3][4][5]

Following the announcement of the series, Paul Mortimer, the director of Reality Commissioning and Acquisitions said: "This refreshed, contemporary new series of Big Brother will contain all the familiar format points that kept viewers engaged and entertained the first time round [...] We’re beyond excited to bring this iconic series to ITV2 and ITVX where it should especially engage with our younger viewers."[6][7] Ian Katz, the chief content officer for Channel 4, who originally broadcast the show from 2000 until 2010 said of the show's revival that whilst it was a "wonderful show" [...] that "there [was] something depressing about this microwave moment of TV of shows being reheated."[8][9]

Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Kevin Lygo, the Managing Director of Media and Entertainment at ITV said that the success of Love Island influenced the network's decision to recommission Big Brother, saying that "We look at Love Island and we see this extraordinarily successful show that defies all current logic and goes against what people say, that young people don’t watch terrestrial television."[10] However, he noted that the series was unlikely to "skew [an audience] as young as Love Island does" due to the former show's legacy, and called it "arguably the sort of best thing there's ever been on television, or most extraordinary thing, that shaped most television afterwards".[11][12] Lygo also added that the key to Big Brother was to keep it like it was in it's "golden period".[13]

Former hosts Davina McCall and Emma Willis declined rumours of hosting the revival but said that they were happy to see its return.

Davina McCall, who presented the programme on Channel 4 from the show's inception until it's original cancellation in 2010, ruled out a return as presenter. She stated that although she "loved the show with all her heart" and had the best 11 years of [her] life [...] and that whoever [hosts the show]... she [would] be supporting it with every fibre in her body", she added that she didn't think it would be her [presenting].[14][15] Emma Willis, the presenter of the programme prior to its cancellation on Channel 5, also ruled out the possibility of her returning as host saying that she "loved [her] time on the show" but "very much kind of said goodbye to it back then because [she] thought it was over".[16] Willis did however express interest in appearing as a guest panellist on the series' spin-off show.[17] Former Big Brother's Little Brother presenter Dermot O'Leary said that whilst he was sure the new series would be a "hit with viewers", added that the show needed to be "less of a popularity contest" and go back to how it was in the early days as "more of a social experiment".[18]

It was initially reported that the series was set to launch in March 2023, following the conclusion of the ninth series of Love Island.[19][20] However, it was later confirmed that the series would launch in autumn 2023.[21][22] This was said to be due to the high influx of reality television programming on the broadcaster earlier in the year and to avoid clashing with the upcoming series of Love Island and I'm a Celebrity... South Africa, with Big Brother receiving a "more prominent slot" in the autumn schedule.[23][24] The series will also be accompanied by a spin-off show.[25][26] Applications for the series opened online on 10 October 2022.[27] They were originally set to close on 27 January 2023, however, following the announcement of the series being delayed until the autumn, the application window was extended until 30 June 2023.[28][29][30]

Following the announcement of the reboot, speculation as to who would be presenting the series began, with the media reporting various potential hosts including Mo Gilligan,[31] Emily Atack,[32] Vick Hope,[32] Olivia Attwood[33] and Roman Kemp, the latter of whom confirmed he had been "in talks" with producers of the series.[34] In April 2023, ITV announced that AJ Odudu and Will Best would be presenting the series.[35][36] Odudu previously co-presented the spin-off show Big Brother's Bit on the Side alongside Rylan Clark in 2013, whilst Best regularly appeared as a panellist on the show.[37] Upon her appointment as presenter, Odudu said she was "so excited to finally be able to say that, yes: [she is] hosting Big Brother! I couldn't be happier" adding that "following in the footsteps of some of [her] favourite broadcasting legends to front such an iconic show is an absolute honour - and to do it alongside my amazing friend Will is the icing on the cake.", whilst Best said he "grew up with Big Brother so getting a chance to host it with [his] mate AJ is a dream come true. I can't wait to tell some housemates not to swear." (in a reference to former host Davina McCall's catchphrase).[35][38][39]

Format

Following the commissioning of the show, ITV announced that the series would feature a new cast of carefully selected housemates, from all walks of life. The series is set to run for up to six weeks, with "cameras capturing [the housemates'] every move, and the nation following every twist and turn." Shopping tasks, nominations and live evictions will return, with the public once again voting throughout the series and ultimately determining the winner, who will walk away with a cash prize.[6][40]

The series is set to run for 36 episodes, airing six nights a week from Sunday to Friday. There will be a 90-minute launch show and finale episode.[41]

House

The location for the series was not initially confirmed, but it was teased as "an iconic Big Brother house" which would be given "its own contemporary new look ready for this reimagining of the show."[6] A week after the announcement of the series returning, media outlets reported that the series was set to be filmed at ITV Studios Bovingdon after planning applications were submitted for three new studios, as well as a backlot for temporary studios with outdoor filming.[42] It was later speculated that ITV were planning to build a "standalone house" for the series, with Radio Times reporting that a "brand new house built on a huge airfield in the countryside" was in the works.[43][44]

During the 20-second teaser aired in August 2022, it depicted numerous ITV2 logos forming into the shape of a Big Brother eye. However, the host reveal trailer and the official social media accounts feature the same shaped eye with the ITV2 colour scheme of purple.[45][46]

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