Big Brother is a 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.
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 Jr.. 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 Brasil 1, known at the time only as Big Brother Brasil was the debut season of Big Brother Brasil, the Brazilian version of the international reality show Big Brother, which premiered on January 29, 2002 on Rede Globo.
Big Brother Brasil 3 was the third season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 14, 2003 on the Rede Globo.
Big Brother Brasil 4 was the fourth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 13, 2004 with the season finale airing April 6, 2004 on the Rede Globo television network.
Big Brother Brasil 7 was the seventh season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 9, 2007 with the season finale airing April 3, 2007 on the Rede Globo television network.
Big Brother Brasil 9 was the ninth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 13, 2009 with the season finale airing April 7, 2009 on the Rede Globo television network.
Big Brother Brasil 8 was the eighth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 8, 2008 with the season finale airing March 25, 2008 on the Rede Globo television network.
Big Brother Brasil 10 was the tenth season of Big Brother Brasil. It began on January 12, 2010, and ended on March 30, 2010, on the Rede Globo television network. The show was produced by Endemol Globo and presented by the news reporter Pedro Bial. The season was officially confirmed in 2008 as part of a millionaire contract between international Endemol and Rede Globo. The prize award was R$1,500,000 without tax allowances. The winner was a 37-year-old physical education teacher, Marcelo Dourado, from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, who won with 60% of 154,878,460 votes cast, a worldwide record. He had previously appeared on Big Brother Brasil 4, when he finished in seventh place. Anamara Barreira and Elieser Ambrosio returned to compete as veterans in Big Brother Brasil 13, where they were placed 8th and 10th respectively.
Marcelo Pereira Dourado is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and personal trainer.
Big Brother Brasil 11 was the eleventh season of Big Brother Brasil, which premiered January 11, 2011 with the season finale airing March 29, 2011 on the Rede Globo television network.
Big Brother Brasil 12 was the twelfth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 10, 2012 with the season finale airing March 29, 2012 on the Rede Globo television network.
Big Brother Brasil 13 was the thirteenth season of Big Brother Brasil, which premiered January 8, 2013, and the season finale airing March 26, 2013, on the Globo television network.
Big Brother Brasil 14 was the fourteenth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 14, 2014, with the season finale airing April 1, 2014 on the Rede Globo television network.
Big Brother Brasil 16 was the sixteenth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 19, 2016 with the season finale airing April 5, 2016 on the Rede Globo. The show was produced by Endemol Globo and it was the last presented by journalist Pedro Bial, replaced by Tiago Leifert in 2017, after leaving the sports department, 1 year before the premiere of the talk show Conversa com Bial.
The seventh season of the reality game show Pinoy Big Brother, subtitled Lucky aired on ABS-CBN for 235 days from July 11, 2016 to March 5, 2017, replacing We Will Survive, the first and second season of Jane the Virgin and We Love OPM and was replaced by Wildflower, Love in the Moonlight and I Can Do That.
Big Brother Brasil 17 is the seventeenth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 23, 2017 on the Rede Globo. The show is produced by Endemol Globo and presented by Tiago Leifert.
Ana Paula Machado Renault is a Brazilian journalist, columnist and television personality.
Big Brother Brasil 20 was the twentieth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered on TV Globo on January 21, 2020. The show was produced by Globo and hosted by Tiago Leifert, who returned for his fourth season as the host.
Big Brother Brasil 22 was the twenty-second season of Big Brother Brasil, which premiered on TV Globo on January 17, 2022. The show is produced by Globo and presented by Tadeu Schmidt, he who makes his debut as the new host of the series.
