Big Brother is a Dutch reality competition television franchise created by John de Mol Jr., first broadcast in the Netherlands in 1999, and subsequently syndicated internationally. The show features contestants called "housemates" or "HouseGuests" who live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world. The name is inspired by Big Brother from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the housemates are continuously monitored during their stay in the house by live television cameras as well as personal audio microphones. Throughout the course of the competition, they are voted out until only one remains and wins the cash prize.
Hollywood Squares is an American game show in which two contestants compete in a game of tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes. The show piloted on NBC in 1965 and the regular series debuted in 1966 on the same network. The board for the game is a 3 × 3 vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by a celebrity seated at a desk and facing the contestants. The stars are asked questions by the host and the contestants judge the truth of their answers to gain squares in the right pattern to win the game.
The Apprentice is a reality talent game show franchise originally aired in 2004 in the United States.
Big Brother Brasil is the Brazilian version of the Big Brother reality franchised television show based on the original Dutch television series of the same name, that was created in 1997 by John de Mol. It is the second one with more finished seasons and the only one with more than 20 years of uninterrupted annual transmission in the same channel.
Big Brother Australia is an Australian reality show based on the international Big Brother format created by John de Mol.
Grande Fratello is the Italian version of the reality television franchise Big Brother. Begun in September 2000, it has gone on to become a cultural phenomenon in Italy. There have been twenty-one completed seasons as of 2021, sixteen regular seasons and six celebrity seasons.
Veliki Brat is a Serbian version of the global reality show franchise Big Brother. The show is recorded and produced in Belgrade by Emotion Production.
Big Brother is a reality show on TV2. It was the Hungarian version of the original Dutch Big Brother series by Endemol in 1999.
Big Brother is the German version of the international reality television franchise Big Brother created by producer John de Mol in 1997. Following the premise of other versions of the format, the show followed a number of contestants, known as housemates, who are isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom-built house. Each week, one of the housemates is evicted by a public vote, with the last housemate remaining winning a cash prize.
Big Brother Africa is the African version of the international reality television franchise Big Brother created by producer John de Mol in 1997. The show was first aired in 2003 for one season on M-Net and broadcast to audiences in 42 African countries. In 2007, the show was back from four-year hiatus, until it got cancelled after season nine in 2014.
Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, also known colloquially as the Dschungelcamp, is a German reality television show, based on the British reality television show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. The show is produced by ITV Studios Germany and began airing on 9 January 2004 on RTL, and until now have been broadcast 14 seasons.
Big Brother Albania is the Albanian version of the international reality television Big Brother created by producer John de Mol in 1997. The show follows a number of contestants, known as housemates, who are isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom-built house. Each week, one of the housemates is evicted by a public vote, with the last housemate remaining winning a cash prize.
Big Brother 1 is the first season of the Croatian reality television series Big Brother that premiered on 18 September 2004 and ending on 26 December 2004, and ran for 100 days. It received high ratings and proved to be one of the rare successes for RTL Televizija in its first six months on Croatian television markets.
Celebrity Big Brother was a special celebrity edition of the Croatian version of the international reality television franchise Big Brother. It started on 7 March 2008 and was supposed to end on 28 March 2008. The show hosted by Antonija Blaća.
Veliki Brat 2011 was the fourth season of the Serbian production of the Big Brother reality television series Veliki Brat. This season was notable for being the first to feature houseguests from Croatia, and in doing so it holds the record for largest number of unique nations represented with five. Along with Serbia and Croatia, the other three nations represented were Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia. The program is known as Big Brother in Croatia due to a former Croatian Big Brother series that aired for five seasons which was not affiliated with Veliki Brat.
Antonija Brlečić, better known under her maiden surname, is a Croatian TV host and a former contestant of first Croatian season of Big Brother. She is known for her eviction from the Big Brother house one week before the show's final. She became a regular host since the second season and has since hosted every season of the show. Other than Big Brother, she hosted the first two seasons of Croatian version of Idols franchise, X Factor Adria, Fear Factor, the culinary show Večera za 5, and Uhvati Bingo Ritam. She works for RTL Televizija and Narodni radio.
Survivor Croatia is a Croatian reality game show based on the international Survivor format. Following the premise of other versions of the Survivor format, the show features a group of contestants, referred to as "castaways" as they are marooned in an isolated location. The castaways must provide food, water, fire, and shelter for themselves. The contestants compete in various challenges for rewards and immunity from elimination. The contestants are progressively eliminated from the game as they are voted off the island by their fellow castaways, or eliminated through challenges. The final castaway remaining is awarded the title of "Sole Survivor" and the grand prize.
Big Brother VIPs 2 was the second celebrity spin-off season of the Belgian version of Big Brother aired in the Flemish Region of Belgium on Kanaal Twee.
Big Brother is the Dutch & Belgian cooperation version of the international reality television franchise Big Brother produced by Endemol. The show aired in Netherlands on RTL5 and in the Flemish Region of VIER/Play4 and has had a total of two seasons. The first season of the show aired in 2021.
Big Brother VIP, also known as Big Brother Albania VIP or Big Brother VIP Albania, is a reality television spin-off series of the Albanian version of Big Brother Albania, based on the Dutch show Big Brother and created by producer John de Mol. The first season premiered on 5 October 2021 on Top Channel, hosted by Arbana Osmani. The show follows a number of celebrity contestants, known as housemates, who are isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom built house. Each week, one of the housemates is evicted by a public vote, with the last housemate remaining winning a cash prize of €100,000. Ballet dancer Ilir Shaqiri was announced as the first winner of Big Brother VIP in the show's final episode on 18 February 2022.
