Bigg Boss (Telugu TV series)

Bigg Boss
Show's Seventh Season Logo with host Nagarjuna
Presented by	Jr NTR (Season 1) Nani (Season 2) Nagarjuna (Season 3 - present)
Country of origin	India
Original language	Telugu
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	714(as of 17 December 2023)
Production
Production locations	Lonavala (Season 1) Annapurna Studios (Season 2 - present)
Camera setup	Multi-Camera (76 cameras with size variations and high quality)
Running time	90 minutes (approx.)
Production company	Endemol Shine India
Original release
Network	Star Maa Disney+ Hotstar
Release	16 July 2017 (2017-07-16) – present

Bigg Boss is an Indian Telugu-language television reality show of the Bigg Boss franchise which airs on Star Maa and streams on Disney+ Hotstar in India. It follows the format of the Dutch reality show Big Brother, which was first developed by Endemol in the Netherlands.

Starting in 2017, the show has rolled out seven seasons so far; Jr NTR and Nani hosted Season 1 and 2 respectively, while Nagarjuna is hosting the show from Season 3 onwards. In Season 2 and 6 features general public along with celebrities as a housemates. ^[1]

Overview

Bigg Boss is based on the Dutch series Big Brother format developed by John de Mol. A number of contestants known as "housemates" live in a purpose-built house and are isolated from the rest of the world. Each week, housemates nominate two of their fellow housemates for eviction, and the housemates who receive the most nominations would face a public vote. Eventually, one housemate would leave after being "evicted" from the House. In the final week, there were five housemates remaining, and the public voted for who they wanted to win. Unlike other versions of Big Brother, the Indian version uses celebrities as housemates, In season two, Bigg Boss team had selected three common people as contestants from the auditions.

Rules

While all the rules have never been told to the audience, the most prominent ones are clearly seen. The housemates are not permitted to talk in any other language except Telugu.

They always have to wear a lapel and They cannot leave the House premises at any time unless they are evicted or decided by Bigg Boss. They can not discuss the nomination process with anyone. They are not allowed to sleep without the permission of Bigg Boss.

House

The house for season one was set up at Lonavala. ^[2] From season two onwards, the house was set up in Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad. ^[3] The house is well-furnished and decorated. It has a variety of modern amenities, but just one or two bedrooms and four toilet bath rooms. There is a garden, pool, activity area and gym in the House. There is also a Confession Room, where the housemates may be called in by Bigg Boss for any kind of conversation, and for the nomination process. The jail was added from season two onwards in the house and in season three, courtyard part was added in the house. In season four newly special living area and lounge room were added by replacing activity and courtyard part in the house.

Broadcast

Bigg Boss is aired on Star Maa and also available on Disney+ Hotstar. Everyday episodes contain the main happenings of the previous day. Every Sunday episode mainly focuses on an interview of an evicted contestant by the host. The unseen episode will be available as Bigg Boss Buzzz on Star Maa Music and Disney+ Hotstar.

Series details

Series	Host	House Location	Episodes		Originally aired			Housemates	Days	Launch TRP Ratings	Finale TRP Ratings	Prize Money	Winner	Runner up
					First aired	Last aired	Network
1	Jr. NTR	Lonavala	71		16 July 2017 (2017-07-16)	24 September 2017 (2017-09-24)	Star Maa & Disney+ Hotstar	16	70	16.18 TVR [4]	14.23 TVR [5]	₹50 lakh (US$63,000)	Siva Balaji	Aadarsh Balakrishna
2	Nani	Hyderabad	113		10 June 2018 (2018-06-10)	30 September 2018 (2018-09-30)		18	112	15.0 TVR [6]	15.05 TVR [6]	₹50 lakh (US$63,000)	Kaushal Manda	Geetha Madhuri
3	Nagarjuna		106		21 July 2019 (2019-07-21)	3 November 2019 (2019-11-03)		17	105	17.92 TVR [7]	18.29 TVR [5]	₹50 lakh (US$63,000)	Rahul Sipligunj	Sreemukhi
4			106		6 September 2020 (2020-09-06)	20 December 2020 (2020-12-20)		19	105	18.5 TVR [8]	21.7 TVR [9]	₹25 lakh (US$31,000) [lower-alpha 1]	Abijeet	Akhil Sarthak
5			106		5 September 2021 (2021-09-05)	19 December 2021 (2021-12-19)		19	105	18 TVR [11]	18.4 TVR [12]	₹50 lakh (US$63,000) [lower-alpha 2]	VJ Sunny	Shanmukh Jaswanth
6			106		4 September 2022 (2022-09-04)	18 December 2022 (2022-12-18)		21	105	8.86 TVR [14]	8.17 TVR [15]	₹10 lakh (US$13,000) [lower-alpha 3]	L. V. Revanth	Shrihan Shaik
7			106		3 September 2023 (2023-09-03)	17 December 2023 (2023-12-17)		19	105	18.1 TVR [17]	21.7 TVR [18]	₹35 lakh (US$44,000) [lower-alpha 4]	Pallavi Prashanth	Amardeep Chowdary

  Female Contestants   Male Contestants

Notes

1. However, the winner was awarded only ₹25 lakh after the 2nd runner-up opted to walk out with ₹25 lakh. ^[10]
2. The winner awarded with ₹50 lakh, a bike and a plot with worth ₹25 lakh. ^[13]
3. However, the winner was awarded only ₹10 lakh, a car and a plot with worth ₹25 lakh, after the runner up opted to walk out with ₹40 lakh. ^[16]
4. However, the winner was awarded with ₹35 lakh, ₹15 lakh worth diamond jewelry and a luxurious car, after the 3rd runner up opted to walk out with ₹15 lakh. ^[19]

Housemate pattern

Clique	Season 1	Season 2	Season 3	Season 4	Season 5	Season 6	Season 7
Film & TV Star	Aadarsh Balakrishna	Amit Tiwari	Ali Reza	Abijeet	Hamida Khatoon	Arjun Kalyan	Amardeep Chowdary
	Archana Shastry	Bhanu Sree	Hema	Akhil Sarthak	Lahari Shari	Baladitya	Arjun
							Ashwini Sri
	Dhanraj	Kaushal Manda	Himaja	Avinash	Maanas	Chanti	Gautham Krishna
	Diksha Panth					Faima Sheikh
	Hari Teja	Kireeti Damaraju	Mahesh Vitta	Divi Vadathya	Priyanka Singh	Inaya Sultana	Kiran Rathod
	Jyothi					Keerthi Bhat	Pooja Murthy
	Mumaith Khan	Nandini Rai	Punarnavi Bhupalam	Karate Kalyani	Shailaja Priya	Marina Abraham	Priyanka Jain
	Navdeep	Pooja Ramachandran	Ravi Krishna	Kumar Sai	Siri Hanmanth	Rohit Sahni	Rathika Rose
	Prince Cecil					Shani Salmon
	Sameer Hasan	Samrat Reddy	Rohini Reddy	Monal Gajjar	VJ Sunny	Sri Satya	Shakeela
	Sampoornesh Babu	Tanish	Varun Sandesh	Swathi Deekshith	Swetha Varma	Sudeepa Pinky	Shobha Shetty
	Siva Balaji	Tejaswi Madivada	Vithika Sheru	Syed Sohel Ryan	Uma Devi	Vasanthi Krishnan	Sivaji
					Vishwa Raj		Subhashree
TV Host	None	Syamala	Shilpa Chakravarthy	Ariyana Glory	Lobo Khayyum	Neha Chowdary	None
			Sreemukhi	Lasya Manjunath	Ravi Kiran
TV News Reader	Kathi Karthika	Deepthi Nallamuthu	Jaffar Babu	Devi Nagavalli	None	Arohi Rao	None
			Siva Jyothi	Sujatha
Singer/Music Artists	Kalpana Raghavendar	Geetha Madhuri	Rahul Sipligunj	Noel Sean	Sreerama Chandra	L. V. Revanth	Bhole Shavali
	Madhu Priya	Roll Rida					Damini
Radio Jockey	None	None	None	None	Kajal Seelamsetty	Surya Narayana	None
Model	None	None	None	None	Jaswanth	Raja Shekar	Prince Yawar
Film Critic/ Humanist	Mahesh Kathi	Babu Gogineni	Tamanna Simhadhri	None	None	None	None
Choreographer	None	None	Baba Bhaskar	Amma Rajasekhar	Anee	Abhinayashree	Sandeep
					Nataraj
Film Director	None	None	None	Surya Kiran	None	None	None
Social Media Personalities	None	Deepthi Sunaina	Ashu Reddy	Alekhya Harika	Sarayu Roy	Geetu	Nayani Pavani
				Gangavva	Shanmukh Jaswanth	Shrihan Shaik	Pallavi Prashanth
				Mehaboob Shaikh			Teja
Commoner	None	Ganesh	None	None	None	Adi Reddy	None
		Nutan Naidu
		Sanjana Anne
Total	16	18	17	19	19	21	19
Winner  Runner-up  Finalist

Bigg Boss Non-Stop

Main article: Bigg Boss Non-Stop

The series is also set to roll out a digital version of the show called Bigg Boss Non-Stop, which is also going to be hosted by Nagarjuna and broadcast by Disney+ Hotstar for 24×7 coverage. ^{[20] [21] [22]}

Reception

Season 1

Main article: Bigg Boss (Telugu season 1)

Bigg Boss Telugu programme is regarded as the most expensive Telugu television show. ^[23] The launch of season 1 opened with 16.18 TVR and became as the most watched Telugu television show. ^[24]

Season 2

Main article: Bigg Boss (Telugu season 2)

The launch of season 2 opened with 15.05 TVR.

Season 3

Main article: Bigg Boss (Telugu season 3)

The launch of season 3 opened with 17.9 TVR, which is bigger than the previous seasons. ^[25] The grand finale of season 3 of duration four and half hours scored 18.29 TVR being the highest ever rating achieved by the Bigg Boss Indian franchise. The last hour of telecast, featuring Chiranjeevi as chief guest, alone garnered 22.4 TVR. ^[26]

Season 4

Main article: Bigg Boss (Telugu season 4)

The launch of season 4 opened with 18.5 TVR ^[8] higher than previous seasons. On Week 7, Samantha Akkineni hosted the show, while main host Nagarjuna is in Manali for his movie shooting and the episode was also extended to 3 hours, from the usual 1½ hours and the episode opened with 11.4 TVR,^{[ citation needed ]} which was higher trp among all the weekends. The grand finale of season 4 became most watched and created a record with viewership as it garnered highest TRP rating of 21.7 TVR among all seasons of Bigg Boss editions. ^[27]

Season 5

Main article: Bigg Boss (Telugu season 5)

The launch of fifth season has received about 17.7 TVR in general and 18 TVR with HD viewership and also, the latest rating proves that show's popularity has remained intact. ^[11] The grand finale episode had secured 18.4 TVR and millions of views on Disney+ Hotstar. ^[12]

Season 6

Main article: Bigg Boss (Telugu season 6)

The launch episode opened with 8.86 TVR, while finale episode received 8.17 TVR and recorded has lowest TRPs in the history of the reality TV series in Telugu. The week's average TVR for this season failed to surpass the bar set by its predecessors, too. ^{[28] [29]}

Season 7

Main article: Bigg Boss (Telugu season 7)

The grand finale of season 7 garnered TRP ratings of 21.7 TVR. ^{[30] [31]}

Side shows

Bigg Boss Buzzz

Bigg Boss Buzzz is an Indian Telugu-language Television talk show with evicted housemates of reality television series Bigg Boss Telugu. From season 3 onwards, the show features evicted housemates interview with previous season contestant as a host on every Monday episode and also unseen portions of episodes that were not aired on television will be aired on Star Maa Music.

Season	Title	Host	Notes
3	Bigg Boss 3 Buzzz	Tanish	2nd Runner-up of Season 2 [32]
4	Bigg Boss 4 Buzzz	Rahul Sipligunj	Winner of Season 3 [33]
5	Bigg Boss 5 Buzzz	Ariyana Glory	3rd Runner-up of Season 4 [34]
6	Bigg Boss 6 Buzzz	Shiva	2nd Runner-up of BB Non-Stop 1 [35]
7	Bigg Boss 7 Buzzz	Geetu	Contestant of Season 6 [36]

BB Cafe

BB Cafe is an review based show about the reality television series Bigg Boss Telugu. From season 6 onwards, The show features previous seasons contestants as host and will discusses all the topics of Bigg Boss Episodes. The show will continue to give more clarity on war, love and other interesting topics between the contestants and it premiers on Star Maa Music.

Season	Title	Host	Notes
6	BB Cafe	Ariyana Glory	3rd Runner-up of Season 4 and BB Non-Stop 1

Related shows

• Bigg Boss Mahotsavam
• Bigg Battle: Kings vs Queens
• Bigg Boss Intilo Maa Parivaar
• BB Jodi Telugu
• BB Shining Stars

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External links

• Official Website