Big Brother Canada is a Canadian television reality game show based on the Dutch show of the same name, and the English-Canadian version of the Big Brother franchise.
Following the format originated by the American version of the show, the show features a group of contestants, known as "HouseGuests" who live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world. 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, the houseguests compete in challenges to win power and safety before voting to evict each other from the house – eliminating them from the competition. The last remaining houseguest wins the competition and is awarded the grand prize. The series is named after the fictional totalitarian dictator from George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The series was originally produced by Endemol and Insight Productions for Shaw Media and Corus Entertainment and hosted by Arisa Cox (who also acted as executive producer between 2021 and 2024), with the first season premiering on February 27, 2013, on Slice. From the third season, the show aired on Global. The series was put on hiatus following the conclusion of the fifth season, but fan support saw the series renewed for a sixth season.. The twelfth and final season of this iteration aired in early 2024, with the series cancelled in June 2024.
In 2026, a revival of the franchise was announced, to be produced by Groupe Entourage for Bell Media, hosted by Andrea Bain. The revival is set to premiere in the spring of 2027. The rebooted series is set to act as a sister show to the French-Canadian celebrity edition, titled Big Brother Célébrités, with both being produced by Entourage for CTV and Noovo, out of the same house and production facilities in Montreal.
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