CBS has announced it has renewed Big Brother for a seventeenth and eighteenth season that will air in Summer 2015 and 2016 respectively.
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"With its one-of-a-kind format, coupled with its passionate, socially engaged fan base, no other show comes close to duplicating it."
In addition, Big Brother: After Dark has been renewed for a third season on TVGN, which is co-owned by CBS and will relaunch as a new cable network called POP next year.
Big Brother: After Dark's 2015 edition will be its tenth overall season, as the show premiered with Big Brother's eighth season back in Summer 2007 and aired its first seven seasons on Showtime, the premium cable network CBS also owns.
Big Brother, hosted by Julie Chen, follows a group of strangers living together in a house outfitted with 76 HD cameras and more than 100 microphones recording their every move, 24 hours a day. Each week, the houseguests vote to evict someone from the house. The last player standing wins a $500,000 grand prize.
The reality competition series just crowned its sixteenth-season winner during Wednesday night's 90-minute finale. Derrick Levasseur defeated runner-up Cody Calafiore in a 7-2 jury vote.
Big Brother is produced by Fly on the Wall Entertainment in association with Endemol U.S.A.
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