Big Brother is coming to Canada on the Slice Network, which will broadcast its own version of the international franchise. Global TV airs the CBS version of the show, so Canadians haven’t been deprived of the format, and sadly, their new version will mimic the CBS version instead of using another model. A press release …
Police are investigating after a contestant on Brazil’s version of Big Brother was expelled from the house for possibly sexually assaulting a houseguest while she was unconscious, although he has called it “a huge misunderstanding.” Footage of the incident that’s on YouTube and was broadcast on live, pay-per-view TV, shows houseguest Monique Amin unconscious in …
Three finalists for Grande Fratello, the Italian version of Big Brother, “were threatened by a group of masked far right-wing protestors demanding cheaper housing for low-income families,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. Members of Fiamma Tricolore (Tri-colored Flame) “used knives to puncture the clear plastic bubble that housed the Rome set in which the three …
Serbia’s Big Brother was cancelled because of the death of three evicted cast members. Stevan Zečevic, Zorica Lazić and Elmir Kuduzović died in a car accident Dec. 28, and the show’s producers and network decided to cancel the remainder of the series and “split the 100,000 euro (some 147,000 dollars) award between all the remaining …
A man who was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow houseguest on Big Brother Africa 2 won the show’s prize, and the woman he allegedly assaulted came in second. Richard Bezuidenhout from Tanzania placed first, while Nigerian Ofunneka Molokwu placed second. Late last month, married houseguest “Bezuidenhout lay down next to the comatose young woman …
Germany attempted its own version of The Truman Show with an indefinitely-running Big Brother, but the show’s low ratings have led producers to end it in February. Big Brother: The Village, produced by Endemol, “began in March on a purpose-built set outside Cologne that covered 5,000 square metres,” the BBC reports. Still, it “will end …
The Philippines’ edition of Big Brother, known as Pinoy Big Brother, got in trouble because it showed kissing and houseguests dancing in a bikini. The show has previously been warned “to make [the show] more wholesome.” But it crossed the line and the Movie & Television Review & Classification Board took action. The MTRCB said …