Big Brother Poland (franchise)

Big Brother Poland (franchise)
Country	Poland
Language(s)	Polish
Television Network(s)	TVN (2001-2002) TV4 (2007-2008) TVN7 (2019)
Host	Grzegorz Miecugow (2001-2002) Martyna Wojciechowska (2001-2002) Andrzej Sołtysik (2001-2002) Karina Kunkiewicz (2007) Kuba Klawiter (2007-2008) Małgorzata Kosik (2008) Agnieszka Woźniak-Starak (2019) Gabi Drzewiecka (2019)
Series Run	March 3, 2001 - May 26, 2002 September 2, 2007 - June 1, 2008 March 17, 2019 - December 15, 2019

Wielki Brat is the Polish version of the international reality series, Big Brother.

How it Works

Based on the original Dutch version created by Endemol, the show sees a number of "housemates", divided by gender, social backgrounds and geographical locations, locked up together in a house, where the viewing public can watch them twenty-four hours a day, and vote them out of the house as they choose.

The housemates can visit the "Dairy Room" at any time during the day, either to talk to psychologists if they need to, talk to "Big Brother", or to nominate.

The title is inspired by the George Orwell novel 1984. The novel tells of a Big Brother, head of the totalitarian state of Oceania that constantly monitors its inhabitants by the camera in an attempt to suppress their free will. The tag line of the novel is "Big Brother is watching you", which inspired the show, as it is Big Brother who now has total control over the situation in the house.

The housemates live in a house 24 hours a day, bugged by numerous cameras and microphones which capture their every move. Every week the housemates participate in tasks that determine their food budget for that week, or could even affect that week's nominations. The overall goal is to be the final surviving housemate and claim the prize fund. A PlayStation game based on this version was released in 2003.

Series

Season	Channel	Season Run	Days	Housemates	Winner	Runner-Up(s)
Big Brother Poland 1	TVN	March 3, 2001 - June 17, 2001	107	15	Janusz Dzięcioł	Manuela Michalak
Big Brother Poland 2		August 26, 2001 - December 16, 2001	113	18	Marzena Wieczorek	David Rubasiński
Big Brother Poland 3		March 3, 2002 - May 26, 2002	85	17	Piotr Borucki	Andrzej Galica
Big Brother Poland 4	TV4	September 2, 2007 - December 16, 2007	106	21	Jola Rutowicz	Kasia Lenartowicz
Big Brother Poland 5		March 2, 2008 - June 1, 2008	92	27	Janusz Strączek	Klaudia Olczak
					Jarek Jakimowicz	Jola Rutowicz
Big Brother Poland 6	TVN7	March 17, 2019 - June 16, 2019	92	21	Magda Wójcik	Bartłomiej Boruc
Big Brother Poland 7		September 13, 2019 - December 15, 2019	94	23	Kamil Lemieszewski	Martyna Lewandowska