Big Brother (German TV series)
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John de Mol | |
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Opening theme | "Big Brother Germany TV Theme" |
Country of origin | Germany |
Original language | German |
No. of seasons | 14 |
Production | |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | EndemolShine Germany |
Original release | |
Network | RTL Zwei |
Release | 28 February 2000 12 September 2011 | –
Network | sixx |
Release | 22 September 22 December 2015 | –
Network | Sat.1 |
Release | 10 February 18 May 2020 | –
Related | |
Promi Big Brother |
Big Brother is the German version of the international
Big Brother premiered on 28 February 2000 and ran for eleven seasons on RTL Zwei (formerly spelled RTL 2 and RTL II) before the network cancelled it in September 2011.[2][3] Big Brother returned on 22 September 2015 on sixx, and lasted for one season.[4] After a 5-year break, Sat.1 rebooted the series on 10 February 2020.[5][6] Three years later, in October 2023, it was announced by EndemolShine Germany and Sat.1 that Big Brother would return for his fourteenth season on 2024.[7]
The show also featured a 24-hour live feed, in which fans could view the inside of the house at any time on the German pay channel Premiere and Sky until the twelfth season. In the Sat.1 iteration of the show, however, there was no 24-hour live stream offered from the inside of the house.[8]
After a two-year hiatus, the show was bought and revamped by
Format
Big Brother Germany is based on the international
Should their stay inside the house become difficult for them to bear, a housemate is allowed to voluntarily leave at any time during the game. In the event of a withdrawal from the house, a replacement housemate usually enters in their place.
In the final week of each season, the viewers vote for which of the remaining people in the house should win the prize money and be crowned the winner of Big Brother.
Changes of the Concept
Since the start of its first season in February 2000, Big Brother Germany went through numerous changes in its concept. Here are some significant examples of the progress of modifying the rules of the original game:
- "Only the housemates have to decide which of them gets nominated.": Besides in season 7 the viewers could decide for only 1 time which of them gets nominated.
- "None of the housemates know each other before entering the house.": changed in season 3 with a couple in a romantic relationship entering the house.
- "The prize money is a certainty": changed in season 4 by letting the final four housemates doing challenges and giving them a quarter of the original prize money for every succeeded challenge.
- "The complete household lives together in one group": changed in season 4 by dividing the house into two parts with a "rich" and a "poor" area and splitting the household into two competing teams. Season 6 gets three houses where the housemates have to live in.
- "All the housemates live together in one house": changed in season 6 with building a whole "Big Brother village" including five houses and a farm. In season 13 were two houses the "Glasshouse" and the "Blockhouse".
- "The show runs for three months": changed in season 5 with expanding the show to one year.
- "The show is supposed to run for a certain time": changed in season 6 with the announcement that the show would run as long as the ratings were acceptable, it actually lasted 363 days.
- "Only the winner receives prize money": changed in season 6 with the creation of three areas for the housemates where they had to work and earn money, which was given to them when they got evicted (housemates who left the house voluntary did not receive any money).
- "The housemates get no information from outside": changed in season 5 where the housemates were allowed to watch the RTL2 News after winning a game and in order to learn about a terrorist attack. In season 13 the viewers can write comments for the housemates and the comments are regularly shown to the house.
Prize money
The winner of Big Brother Germany receives a cash prize for being the last remaining housemate:
- In DM250,000.
- In DM250,000.
- In 100,000.
- In Big Brother 5, the winner received after 365 days in the Big Brother House €1,000,000.
- From Big Brother 10, the winner received €250,000.
- In 100,000.
- In Big Brother 13, the winner received €100,000.
Theme
Some seasons include a theme.
Season | Theme |
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1 | — |
2 | Back to Basics |
3 | — |
4 | The Battle |
5 | 365 Days - 1 Million Euro |
6 | The Village |
7 | Who are you really? |
8 | Rich vs. Poor |
9 | Heaven and Hell/Reloaded |
10 | Everyone got a secret |
11 | The Secret |
12 | Back to Basics |
13 | Big Brother 20 |
14 | — |
Smoking in the house
Unlike in many other Big Brother houses, in the Big Brother Germany house smoking is allowed outdoors and indoors. This is because Germany has no smoking ban.
Series details
Series | Days | Housemates | Winner | Runner-up | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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First aired | Last aired | Network | |||||||
14 | 100 | 17 | TBA | TBA | TBA | 4 March 2024 | 10 June 2024 | Sat.1 Joyn |
Broadcasting
Big Brother Germany was broadcast by RTL Zwei from season 1 until 11, sixx for season 12 and Sat.1 from season 13.
Season | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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Highlights Shows (8:15 pm – 9:00 pm) | The Decision Shows (8:15 pm – 9:15 pm) | Highlights Shows (10:15 pm – 11:00 pm) | Highlights Shows (8:15 pm – 9:00 pm) | |||
2
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Highlights Shows (8:15 pm – 9:00 pm) | The Decision Shows (9:15 pm – 11:15 pm) | Highlights Shows (8:15 pm – 9:00 pm) | ||||
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4
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Highlights Shows (7:00 pm – 7:45 pm) The Decision Shows (9:15 pm – 11:15 pm) |
Highlights Shows (7:00 pm – 7:45 pm) | |||||
5
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Highlights Shows (7:00 pm – 8:00 pm) The Decision Shows (9:15 pm – 11:15 pm - One night a week) | ||||||
6
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7
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Highlights Shows (7:00 pm – 8:00 pm) The Decision Shows (9:15 pm – 11:15 pm) |
Highlights Shows (7:00 pm – 8:00 pm) | — | ||||
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10
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11
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Highlights Shows (7:00 pm – 8:00 pm) The Decision Shows (9:15 pm – 11:15 pm) |
Highlights Shows (7:00 pm – 8:00 pm) | |||||
12
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Highlights Shows (10:10 pm – 11:10 pm) | The Decision Shows (8:15 pm – 10:15 pm) | Highlights Shows (10:10 pm – 11:10 pm) | ||||
13
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Highlights Shows (7:00 pm – 7:55 pm) The Decision Shows (8:15 pm – 10:15 pm) |
Highlights Shows (7:00 pm – 7:55 pm) | — | ||||
14
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Live Launch (8:15 pm – 10:15 pm) Weekly Live Shows (10:55 pm – 11:55 pm) |
Highlights Shows (9:00 pm – 9:35 pm) |
Spin-off shows
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Presenters
Season | Presenter(s) | Co-presenter(s) | ||||||||
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1 | Percy Hoven | Thorsten Wember | Sophie Rosentreter | |||||||
2 | Oliver Geissen | Gudrun Loeb | Aleksandra Bechtel | |||||||
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4 | Aleksandra Bechtel | — | ||||||||
5 | Ruth Moschner | — | Christian Möllmann | Oliver Petszokat | ||||||
6 | Oliver Petszokat | Jochen Bendel | ||||||||
7 | Charlotte Karlinder | — | Jürgen Milski | |||||||
8 | Miriam Pielhau | |||||||||
9 | — | Alida Kurras-Lauenstein | ||||||||
10 | Aleksandra Bechtel | — | ||||||||
11 | Sonja Zietlow[a] | — | ||||||||
12 | Jochen Bendel | |||||||||
13 | Jochen Schropp | Jochen Bendel | Melissa Khalaj | Aaron Troschke | ||||||
14 | — |
- ^ Sonja Zietlow hosted only the Launch Night.
Intros
Season | Song (English translation) | Performer |
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14
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"Leb" (Live) | Die 3. Generation |
2
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"Zeig mir dein Gesicht" (Show Me Your Face) | Berger |
3
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"Nur die Wahrheit zählt" (Only Truth Counts) | Ayman and Naima |
4
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"Alles ändert sich" (Everything Changes) | Oli P. feat. Lukas |
5
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"Alles was du willst" (Everything You Want) | Lex |
6
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"Deine Welt" (Your World) | (Own composition) |
7
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"Ich seh was, was du nicht siehst" (I See Something You Do Not See) | Senta-Sofia |
8
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"Chose to Be Me" | Sunrise Avenue |
9
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"Everybody" | Mousse T. |
10
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"Schöne neue Welt" (Brave New World) | Culcha Candela |
12
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" Sparks "
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Neon Hitch |
13
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"Follow the Leader" | Cosby |
Reception and popularity
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Big Brother was a social phenomenon when it began in 2000. At some point in the first season it hit a 70% rating share. Despite massive popularity, ratings in the third season started to decline. RTL II decided to take the show off the air for one year (2002).
The program returned in 2003 with a completely modified format and lower expectations. Much higher ratings and sponsors' interest resulted in the following season. The fifth season reached up to high expectations of the producers. The high success of the fifth season resulted in a back-to-back season, which was supposed to run for at least a few years. However, ratings started to decline and the show was hiding in the shadow of its former glory. The producers decided to end the show after its first year on air.
A Year-and-half later, in 2007, RTL II decided to return to the old, original format of the program, marking the seventh season as "Back To Basics". Despite this, the renewed format was not a ratings hit, but it reached up to the producers' low expectations.
The producers tried to renew the format for the eleventh season, because of the tenth season-low achievements (The finale of the tenth season had 1.39 million viewers). Viewing figures however decline in the eleventh season, but producers made an impression of success with duration and prize extension. The ratings in the eleventh season rarely reached a 10% share.
References
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- ^ "Sat.1 bringt "Big Brother" 2020 zurück ins TV-Programm". 26 June 2019.
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- ^ "Big Brother Live-Stream: 24 Stunden-Kanal kommt bei Sat.1 nicht zurück". 10 January 2020.
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- ^ "Big Brother 2020: sixx ist wieder mit Late Night Show dabei". 11 January 2020.