Pinoy Big Brother 8

Pinoy Big Brother 8 is the upcoming eighth edition and 14th overall season of the Philippine series, Pinoy Big Brother.

Developments
On the final night of Pinoy Big Brother: Lucky 7, the hosts Toni Gonzaga, Bianca Gonzales and Robi Domingo hinted for a new upcoming season during the closing spiel of the show by saying It has been the longest and biggest season of Pinoy Big Brother, so far!.

Pinoy Big Brother's official Facebook page also posted a photo of the crew with the Season 7 housemates during the PBB Thanksgiving Party with a caption; ''On behalf of the people behind PBB, Thank you for all of your support. See you next season!''.

In September 2017, an alleged Season 8 casting auditions had spread on Facebook stating that there will be auditions on October 15th 2017, The ABS-CBN and Pinoy Big Brother management quickly denied such auditions and and condemned such fake accounts.

On March 28, 2018, Pinoy Big Brother hinted for a "BIG" announcement coming through their Twitter account.

PBB: Road to Season 8
On August 31, 2018, As part of the promotional teaser for this season, Pinoy Big Brother announced the PBB: Balikbahay (Back to the House) on Youtube. It will be a series of videos featuring memorable moments and highlights from the past 13 seasons from the very first season up to the 13th edition.

Teaser and Logo Reveal


On October 20, 2018, the first ever teaser for the season was finally released. The teaser contained highlights from the past series and winning moments of all the Big Winners. It also featured Big Brother's voice at the end by saying "Did you miss my voice?". The teaser also featured a montage of the series' past season logos until the new one was revealed.

The season's official logo was revealed in the teaser. The new logo features a flat, simple and minimalist design. Unlike last season, the logo shifted back to a mechanical eye while retaining the house element in the logo. The font changed subtly and the word "otso" which means "eight" in Filipino language was highlighted.

The eye features elements of the Philippine flag as well as its colors.

ABS-CBN StarHunt: The Grand Auditions
On March 29, 2018, ABS-CBN officially announced that the network would bring a new process for casting auditions. The producers revealed that they would be launching general casting audition event for all of the network's talent and reality competition series, describing it as a "one stop shop" type of casting process.

The Star Hunt Grand Auditions would be choosing contestants for several upcoming seasons of various ABS-CBN shows. The shows included for the casting auditions were ABS-CBN's reality shows such as Pinoy Big Brother 8; singing reality shows such as The Voice of the Philippines, Tawag ng Tanghalan, I Can See Your Voice; talent shows such as Pilipinas Got Talent,, Little Big Shots; Dance shows such as Dance Kids, the new Philippine version of World of Dance; as well as life stories for the country's longest running drama anthology show Maalaala Mo Kaya. ABS-CBN's Entertainment Production Director, Laurenti Dyogi, confirmed that they will be the ones who will put the accepted auditionees to which show they would most likely belong depending on their talents and personalities.

Casting Auditions will be held in various provinces in the Philippines as well as in some countries with sizeable Filipino community overseas. The Casting Auditions for Star Hunt are separated into three categories; Kids, Teens and Adults.

For the online registration, the auditionees could visit the official website https://starhunt.abs-cbn.com/.

Star Hunt: Grand Audition Show
On August 20, 2018, the StarHunt: Grand Audition Show premiered on ABS-CBN. The show follows a reality-documentary series format, wherein every weekday from Mondays to Fridays, each episode features inspiring life stories of several auditionees of any age group and their journey throughout the four stages of auditions. The show would also reveal which certain auditionee would appear on which ABS-CBN show they would be chosen to appear.

The show is hosted by four Pinoy Big Brother alumni; Teen Edition 1 winner, Kim Chiu; Teen Edition Plus runner-up, Robi Domingo; Double Up winner, Melisa Cantiveros; and All In's Alex Gonzaga.

The House
On September 7, 2018, a sneak peak of the house renovation for this season was revealed by Director Laurenti Dyogi on his youtube vlog, Vlog#19. In the vlog entry, he revealed that for this season, the floor plan layout of the house will have a massive transformation from the past seasons and only the pool area remained noticeable.

It would be the first time since Pinoy Big Brother: Double Up that the series would have a total reconstruction of the house's interior layout.

Trivia

 * This will be the first season of Pinoy Big Brother to have housemates chosen from a general casting process of ABS-CBN.
 * The season is the first season to include a Filipino word in its title and logo.