Bigg Boss (franchise) is the Indian version of the popular reality franchise Big Brother.
How it Works
Big Brother is a reality television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are 10-17 participants. The housemates try to win a cash prize by avoiding periodic evictions from the house.
History
The idea for the show is said to come during a brainstorm session at the production house of John de Mol Produkties (an independent part of Endemol) on 4 September 1997. The first Big Brother broadcast was in the Netherlands in 1999 on the Veronica TV channel. It was picked up by Germany, Portugal, USA, UK, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland and Italy the following year and became a world-wide sensation. Since then it has been a prime-time hit in almost 70 countries. The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1948 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Franchises
Hindi
| Bigg Boss Hindi Seasons | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Channel | Host | Premiere Date | Finale Date | Days | Housemates | Winner | Runner(s)-Up | ||||
 Bigg Boss 1 (Hindi) | SET | Arshad Warsi | November 3, 2006 | January 26, 2007 | 86 | 15 | | |||||
 Bigg Boss 2 (Hindi) | Colors TV | Shilpa Shetty | August 17, 2008 | November 22, 2008 | 98 | 15 | | |||||
 Bigg Boss 3 (Hindi) | Amitabh Bachchan | October 4, 2009 | December 26, 2009 | 84 | 15 | | ||||||
 Bigg Boss 4 (Hindi) | Salman Khan | October 2, 2010 | January 8, 2011 | 99 | 16 | | ||||||
 Bigg Boss 5 (Hindi) | Sanjay Dutt | October 2, 2011 | January 7, 2012 | 98 | 18 | | ||||||
 Bigg Boss 6 (Hindi) | Salman Khan | October 7, 2012 | January 12, 2013 | 97 | 19 | | ||||||
 Bigg Boss 7 (Hindi) | September 15, 2013 | December 28, 2013 | 105 | 20 | | |||||||
 Bigg Boss 8 (Hindi) | September 21, 2014 | January 3, 2015 | 105 | 19 | | | | | | None | ||
 Bigg Boss Halla Bol | January 3, 2015 | January 31, 2015 | 28 | 10 | | |||||||
 Bigg Boss 9 (Hindi) | October 11, 2015 | January 23, 2016 | 105 | 20 | | |||||||
 Bigg Boss 10 (Hindi) | October 16, 2016 | January 30, 2017 | 105 | 18 | | |||||||
 Bigg Boss 11 (Hindi) | Colors TV MTV India | October 1, 2017 | January 14, 2018 | 105 | 19 | | ||||||
 Bigg Boss 12 (Hindi) | September 15, 2018 | December 30, 2018 | 106 | 20 | | |||||||
Bengali
| Bigg Boss Bangla Seasons | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Channel | Host | Premiere Date | Finale Date | Days | Housemates | Winner | Runner(s)-Up |
 Bigg Boss Bangla 1 | ETV Bangla | Mithun Chakraborty | June 17, 2013 | September 14, 2013 | 90 | 15 | | |
 Bigg Boss Bangla 2 | Colors Bangla | Jeet | 2016 | 97 | 15 | | | |
Kannada
| Bigg Boss Kannada Seasons | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Channel | Host | Premiere Date | Finale Date | Days | Housemates | Winner | Runner(s)-Up |
 Bigg Boss Kannada 1 | ETV Kannada | Sudeep | March 24, 2013 | June 30, 2013 | 99 | 15 | | |
 Bigg Boss Kannada 2 | Suvarna TV | June 29, 2014 | October 5, 2014 | | | |||
 Bigg Boss Kannada 3 | Colors Kannada | October 25, 2015 | January 31, 2016 | 98 | 18 | | | |
 Bigg Boss Kannada 4 | Colors Kannada Colors Super | October 9, 2016 | January 29, 2017 | 113 | | | ||
 Bigg Boss Kannada 5 | Colors Super | October 15, 2017 | January 28, 2018 | 106 | 19 | | | |
 Bigg Boss Kannada 6 | October 21, 2018 | January 27, 2019 | 98 | 20 | | | ||
Malayalam
| Bigg Boss Malayalam Seasons | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Channel | Host | Premiere Date | Finale Date | Days | Housemates | Winner | Runner(s)-Up |
 Bigg Boss Malayalam 1 | Asianet | Mohanlal | June 24, 2018 | September 30, 2018 | 98 | 18 | | |
Marathi
| Bigg Boss Marathi Seasons | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Channel | Host | Premiere Date | Finale Date | Days | Housemates | Winner | Runner(s)-Up |
 Bigg Boss Marathi 1 | Colors Marathi | Mahesh Manjrekar | April 15, 2018 | July 23, 2018 | 98 | 18 | | |
 Bigg Boss Marathi 2 | May 26, 2019 | September 1, 2019 | 98 | 15 | Current Season | |||
Tamil
| Bigg Boss Tamil Seasons | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Channel | Host | Premiere Date | Finale Date | Days | Housemates | Winner | Runner(s)-Up |
 Bigg Boss Tamil 1 | Star Vijay | Kamal Haasan | June 25, 2017 | September 30, 2017 | 98 | 19 | | |
 Bigg Boss Tamil 2 | June 17, 2018 | September 30, 2018 | 105 | 17 | | | ||
 Bigg Boss Tamil 3 | June 23, 2019 | TBD | ||||||
Telugu
| Bigg Boss Telugu Seasons | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Channel | Host | Premiere Date | Finale Date | Days | Housemates | Winner | Runner(s)-Up |
 Bigg Boss Telugu 1 | Star Maa | Jr. NTR | July 16, 2017 | September 24, 2017 | 71 | 16 | | |
 Bigg Boss Telugu 2 | Nani | June 10, 2018 | September 30, 2018 | 112 | 18 | | | |
| Bigg Boss Telugu 3 | Akkineni Nagarjuna | 2019 | TBD | |||||
Trivia
References
| Big Brother Franchises | ||
|---|---|---|
| Africa | Africa · Angola · Nigeria · South Africa | |
| Americas | Argentina · Brazil · Canada (Quebec) · Colombia · Ecuador · Mexico · Pacific · Panama · Peru · United States (Spanish) | |
| Asia-Pacific | Arab States · Australia · China · India (Hindi · Kannada · Bengali · Tamil · Telugu) · Indonesia · Israel · Philippines · Russia · Thailand · Vietnam · Turkey | |
| Europe | Albania · Balkans · Belgium · Bulgaria · Croatia · Czech Republic · Denmark · Finland · France (Loft) · Germany · Greece · Hungary · Italy · Lithuania · Netherlands · Norway · Poland · Portugal (Secret) · Romania · Scandinavia · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain · Sweden · Switzerland · United Kingdom · Ukraine | |
| Virtual | Second Life | |
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