Expect the unexpected. After a summer of alliances, intrigues and inevitable backstabbing, Big Brother Season 24 finally chooses its newest winner in September 2022. Even before Taylor Hale defeated Monte Taylor and Matthew “Turner” Turner, CBS producers had their sights set on the season Episode 25 of the reality competition series. Host Julie Chen Moonves announced during the finale that Big Brother has been renewed for another series and that the network has begun casting for Season 25.
Big Brother has long been a staple of summer programming, and only twice in the show's decades-long history has a new season premiered outside of the late June or early July window. The first is the season 9 offshoot Big Brother: Till Death Do Us Do Part , and the second is the season 22 Big Brother: All-Stars , which may be delayed to August 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . When CBS announced in May 2023 that Big Brother 25 would begin airing later in 2023, the ongoing WGA writers' strike was likely the reason the network pushed back the reality show's launch date by one month, which foreshadows an expected scripted TV drought in the fall.
In addition to BB 25, CBS has pushed back the launch date of its new music game show Superfan from June to August, adding to its summer slate of reality shows that also includes The Challenge: America and Secret Celebrity Makeover . The delayed premiere will now push the season finale to the fall, leaving at least one reliable ratings juggernaut to fill the potential slot, with the network also having unscripted mainstays like "Survivor" and "The Amazing Race" on its slate .
For more "big brothers" , there may not be much waiting. If production of scripted content continues to be delayed, another season 3 of Celebrity Big Brother airing in February 2022 or a new all-star series appear to be natural key contenders. Regardless, fans are waiting for news, so here's everything else you need to know about Big Brother Season 25.
Big Brother Season 25 premiere date and schedule
Big Brother Season 25 premieres 90 minutes on Wednesday, August 2 at 8pm ET/PT and will air on Wednesday (8pm ET/PT), Thursday (9pm ET) Live) continues to air weekly three-hour episodes. / delayed PT) and Sunday (8 p.m. ET/PT).
Big Brother Season 25 Cast
All 24 seasons of Big Brother, which first aired in 2000, were hosted by Chen Moonves, even after her husband Les Moonves was released in 2018 amid sexual misconduct allegations. She remained in the role after resigning as CEO of CBS in 2011. This is unlikely to change. In July 2021, she told Entertainment Weekly that she had no intention of leaving the show.
How long does she foresee herself remaining as Big Brother host? "As long as I can get out a sentence," she told Entertainment Weekly , noting that Bob Barker hosted "The Price Is Right" for 35 years. "I love it. I feel like it's my baby and I can't imagine not doing it. I can't imagine this show existing and me not being a part of it. So as long as it's on the air, I'm willing to keep doing it ”
As for who will be the newest guest, don't expect an announcement anytime soon: The full cast for Big Brother Season 24 was officially announced just one day before it premieres on July 6.
As of fall 2022, producers are looking for a new "dynamic group of people who are articulate, funny, show enthusiasm for [the show], and are willing to share their most personal thoughts in an open forum with strangers." The finalists will be whittled down to 40, who must also have "sufficient physical, mental and spiritual abilities to endure approximately 100 days in a monitored home under special conditions," according to the CBS website.
This article will be updated as more details about Big Brother Season 25 are released .
