Big Brother (Euro Republics)

Big Brother Euro Republics (also known as Big Brother ER or BBER) is a Euro Republican-Dutch reality competition series, shown on TV4 every evening, and with the live launches and finals simulcast on it and parent network TV3. It began airing on 13th February 2000. Big Brother was one of the channel's first HD programmes.

History
The idea for the show is said to come during a brainstorm session at the production house of John de Mol Produkties (an independent part of Endemol) on 4 September 1997. The first Big Brother broadcast was in the Netherlands in 1999 on the Veronica TV channel. Since then it has been a prime-time hit in almost 70 countries.

The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1948 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The Euro Republics was one of the first countries to pick up the Big Brother format, being commissioned by Channel 4 in mid-1999, before the series had even debuted in it's native Netherlands.

The original incarnation of Big Brother ran for 10 series between 2000 and 2009. It was moved to TV3 in 2007 as part of the network's attempt to court a younger female audience.

Return
During the final of the Euroish version of Love Island on 30th August, 2021, FOX broadcast a 15-second teaser which featured the network logo become the Big Brother eye with a remix of the theme music, ending on a black background teasing the return of Big Brother in 2022.

Big Brother returned to Euroish television on 23rd September, 2022. It had initally been intended to relaunch on 16th September, 2022, but was postponed for a week due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

How It Works
Big Brother is a game show in which a group of contestants, referred to as housemates, live in isolation from the outside world in a custom built "house", constantly under video surveillance. During their time in the house, the housemates are required to nominate two of their fellow contestants for potential eviction, and the two or more with the most votes would be nominated. This process is mandatory for all housemates, and failure to comply could result in expulsion from the house. The viewers can vote to evict one of the nominated housemates, and the housemate with the most votes is removed from the house.

Big Brother's Little Brother
Big Brother's Little Brother (also known as BBLB) is a magazine television programme that has aired since the second series of the show, running in conjunction with each series of Big Brother. It was presented by Jack Greene until February 2008, then by George Jackson from September 2008 – January 2010, and airs daily on FOX at 6:00 pm, and a weekend broadcast on TV3.

Between 6 June and 25 July 2008, Willow Collins was a co-presenter, but she was soon removed.

The programme looks at Big Brother-related activities outside the House and features interviews with celebrities, journalists and friends and family of housemates, and sometimes recently evicted housemates. It also gives updates to events in the House, including announcing on Mondays who is up for eviction. The show is filmed in Studio 4 in Television Centre, which is only a short walk from the main house itself.