Big Brother’s premiere date has been announced by CBS — and it will be later than usual this year.
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CBS has announced the milestone 25th season of Big Brother will premiere Wednesday, August 2, which is about a month later than the summer mainstay usually debuts on the network.
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Last year, Season 24 of Big Brother premiered on CBS on July 6. In 2021, Season 23 debuted on July 7.
Big Brother’s 25th season will premiere with a special 90-minute episode on August 2 beginning at 8PM ET/PT.
Julie Chen Moonves will return as host, and Paramount+ subscribers will be able to catch all the action on the Big Brother Live Feeds.
Next season, a group of brand new houseguests will move into the Big Brother house, which is outfitted with cameras — inside and outside in the backyard — at every turn.
“Expect the unexpected this summer with a season full of twists and turns and throwbacks to the last 24 seasons,” CBS teased.
Following the premiere, Big Brother will air on Sunday nights from 8-9PM, ET/PT) as well as on Wednesday nights from 8-9PM ET/PT.
Live eviction episodes will air on Thursday nights from 9-10PM on the East Coast with a tape delay on the West Coast.
More details about the upcoming season, including its cast of houseguests and big twists, of Big Brother will be announced soon.
While unannounced by CBS, Big Brother’s 25th season was likely pushed back from the summer franchise’s usual earlier launch date due to the ongoing Hollywood writers’ strike.
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The Writers Guild of America launched a strike against the major Hollywood studios on May 2, jeopardizing the production of nearly all the scripted television programming CBS originally planned to air on the Fall 2023 programming schedule it unveiled only weeks ago.
Similar to what happened when the last Writers Guild of America strike occurred in late 2007, reality TV shows are now expected to become vital replacement programming for networks and streaming services for the duration of the strike.
The last writers strike began in November 2007 and ended more than three months later in February 2008.
Television networks attempted to fill their schedules with numerous replacements that included everything from imports of non-American scripted TV dramas to a variety of additional unscripted programming like the first-ever winter season of Big Brother.
Season 24 of Big Brother ended with beauty-pageant winner Taylor Hale winning the grand prize of $750,000 over runner-up Monte Taylor.
Taylor, a 27-year-old personal stylist from West Bloomfield, MI, won Big Brother in a landslide 8-1 jury vote over Monte, a 27-year-old personal trainer from Bear, DE.
Taylor made Big Brother history for two reasons. Not only was she crowned the first Black female winner of a regular Big Brother season, (Tamar Braxton won Season 2 of Celebrity Big Brother), but she’s also the first winner to receive the honor of “America’s Favorite Houseguest” in the same season.
Taylor received an additional $50,000 for being named “America’s Favorite Houseguest.”
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Elizabeth Kwiatkowski is Associate Editor of Reality TV World and has been covering the reality TV genre for more than a decade.