Big Brother's currently-airing 23rd season will come to a close in September, and CBS has announced the show's official finale date.
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Big Brother's final Season 23 episode will air immediately after a regular Survivor 41 broadcast airing from 8-9PM ET/PT.
In a departure from recent years, Big Brother's finale will not immediately follow the premiere of Survivor's new season.
Instead, Season 41 of Survivor is set to premiere one week earlier with a two-hour episode on Wednesday, September 22 at 8PM ET/PT.
When CBS previously aired Survivor's premiere and Big Brother's finale on the same night, both episodes were 90 minutes long.
Big Brother premiered on July 7 and is already heading into its first Power of Veto competition and eviction of the summer.
At the first Nomination Ceremony of the summer, Brandon "Frenchie" French, 34-year-old farmer from Camden, TN who currently resides in Clarksville, TN, decided to put both Alyssa Lopez, a 24-year-old swimwear designer from Sarasota, FL, and Kyland Young, a 29-year-old account executive from San Bernardino County, CA, on the chopping block.
Big Brother host Julie Chen Moonves announced a new "Wild Card Competition" last week in which one member from each team of players is selected each week to compete for safety.
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The winner of the competition gets to spin a wheel determining how many other houseguests on his or her team will be safe for the week, but if the spin only lands on No. 1 or No. 2, the winner must pick favorites to protect.
Big Brother will continue to air three episodes every week on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday nights from 8-9PM ET/PT this summer, with the Thursday-night episodes featuring a live eviction.
RELATED LINK: 'BIG BROTHER' SHOWMANCES NOWBig Brother follows a group of strangers living together in a house together that's outfitted with 94 HD cameras and 113 microphones, recording their every move 24 hours a day.
Each week, a Big Brother houseguest or two will be voted out of the house, and the last houseguest remaining will win the show's biggest grand prize ever of $750,000.
The large grand prize ties into Big Brother's theme this season of gambling and taking risks in the hope of receiving big rewards.
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