Bigg Boss (franchise)

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	Rahul Roy					Carol Gracias
Bigg Boss 2 (Hindi)	Colors TV	Shilpa Shetty	August 17, 2008	November 22, 2008	98	15	Ashutosh Kaushik					Raja Chaudhary
Bigg Boss 3 (Hindi)		Amitabh Bachchan	October 4, 2009	December 26, 2009	84	15	Vindu Dara Singh					Pravesh Rana
Bigg Boss 4 (Hindi)		Salman Khan	October 2, 2010	January 8, 2011	99	16	Shweta Tiwari					Khali Singh Rana
Bigg Boss 5 (Hindi)		Sanjay Dutt	October 2, 2011	January 7, 2012	98	18	Juhi Parmar					Mahek Chahal
Bigg Boss 6 (Hindi)		Salman Khan	October 7, 2012	January 12, 2013	97	19	Urvashi Dholakia					Imam Siddique
Bigg Boss 7 (Hindi)			September 15, 2013	December 28, 2013	105	20	Gauhar Khan					Tanisha Mukherjee
Bigg Boss 8 (Hindi)			September 21, 2014	January 3, 2015	105	19	Ali Quli Mirza	Dimpy Ganguly	Gautam Gulati	Karishma Tanna	Pritam Singh	None
Bigg Boss Halla Bol			January 3, 2015	January 31, 2015	28	10	Gautam Gulati					Karishma Tanna
Bigg Boss 9 (Hindi)			October 11, 2015	January 23, 2016	105	20	Prince Narula					Rishabh Sinha
Bigg Boss 10 (Hindi)			October 16, 2016	January 30, 2017	105	18	Manveer Gurjar					Bani Judge
Bigg Boss 11 (Hindi)	Colors TV MTV India		October 1, 2017	January 14, 2018	105	19	Shilpa Shinde					Hina Khan
Bigg Boss 12 (Hindi)			September 15, 2018	December 30, 2018	106	20	Dipika Kakar					S. Sreesanth
Bigg Boss 13 (Hindi)			September 29, 2019	February 16, 2020	141	21	N/A

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	Aneek Dhar	Rudranil Ghosh
Bigg Boss Bangla 2	Colors Bangla	Jeet	2016		97	15	Joyjit Banerjee	Priya Paul

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	Vijay Raghavendra	Arun Sagar
Bigg Boss Kannada 2	Suvarna TV		June 29, 2014	October 5, 2014			Akul Balaji	Srujan Lokesh
Bigg Boss Kannada 3	Colors Kannada		October 25, 2015	January 31, 2016	98	18	Shruthi	Chandan Kumar
Bigg Boss Kannada 4	Colors Kannada Colors Super		October 9, 2016	January 29, 2017	113		Pratham	Kirik Keerthi
Bigg Boss Kannada 5	Colors Super		October 15, 2017	January 28, 2018	106	19	Chandan Shetty	Diwakar
Bigg Boss Kannada 6			October 21, 2018	January 27, 2019	98	20	Shashikumar	Naveen Sajju
Bigg Boss Kannada 7	Colors Kannada		October 13, 2019	January 26, 2020	106		TBD

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	Sabumon Abdusamad	Pearle Maaney
Bigg Boss Malayalam 2			January 5, 2020	None

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	Megha Dhade	Pushkar Jog
Bigg Boss Marathi 2			May 26, 2019	September 1, 2019	99	17	Shiv Thakre	Neha Shitole

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	Aarav Kizar	Snehan
Bigg Boss Tamil 2			June 17, 2018	September 30, 2018	105	17	Riythvika	Aishwarya Dutta
Bigg Boss Tamil 3			June 23, 2019	October 6, 2019	105	17	Mugen Rao	Sandy Master

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	Sivabalaji Manoharan	Aadarsh Balakrishna
Bigg Boss Telugu 2		Nani	June 10, 2018	September 30, 2018	112	18	Kaushal Manda	Geetha Madhuri
Bigg Boss Telugu 3		Akkineni Nagarjuna	July 21, 2019	October 28, 2019	100	17	Rahul Sipligunj	Sreemukhi Rathod

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 (Való Világ) · Italy · Lithuania · Netherlands · Norway · Poland · Portugal (Secret) · Romania · Scandinavia · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain · Sweden · Switzerland · United Kingdom · Ukraine
Virtual	Second Life