Bigg Boss (franchise)

Bigg Boss (franchise)
Country	India
Language(s)	Bengali Hindi Kannada Malayalam Marathi Tamil Telugu
Television Network(s)	SET (2006-2007) Colors TV (2008-) ETV Bangla (2013) ETV Kannada (2013) Asianet Suvarna (2014) Colors Kannada (2015-2017, 2019-) Colors Bangla (2016) Colors Super (2016-2019) Star Maa (2017-) Star Vijay (2017-) Asianet (2018-) Colors Marathi (2018-) Voot (2021-2022) Disney+ Hotstar (2022) JioCinema (2022-)
Host	Arshad Warsi (2006-2007) Shilpa Shetty (2008) Amitabh Bachchan (2009) Salman Khan (2010-) Sanjay Dutt (2011-2012) Mithun Chakraborty (2013) Sudeep (2013-) Farah Khan (2015) Jeet (2016) Jr. NTR (2017) Kamal Haasan (2017-2024) Mahesh Manjrekar (2018-2023) Mohanlal (2018-) Nani (2018) Akkineni Nagarjuna (2019-) Karan Johar (2021) Silambarasan (2022) Anil Kapoor (2024-) Riteish Deshmukh (2024-) Vijay Sethupathi (2024-)
Series Run	November 3, 2006 -

Bigg Boss 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	Season Run	Days	Housemates	Winner	Runner-Up
Bigg Boss 1 (Hindi)	SET	Arshad Warsi	November 3, 2006 - January 26, 2007	85	15	Rahul Roy	Carol Gracias
Bigg Boss 2 (Hindi)	Colors TV	Shilpa Shetty	August 17, 2008 - November 22, 2008	98		Ashutosh Kaushik	Raja Chaudhary
Bigg Boss 3 (Hindi)		Amitabh Bachchan	October 4, 2009 - December 26, 2009	84		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)		Salman Khan 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		19	Urvashi Dholakia	Imam Siddiqui
Bigg Boss 7 (Hindi)			September 15, 2013 - December 28, 2013	105	20	Gauahar Khan	Tanishaa Mukerji
Bigg Boss 8 (Hindi)			September 21, 2014 - January 3, 2015		19	No Winner
Bigg Boss Halla Bol		Farah Khan	January 3, 2015 - January 31, 2015	29	10	Gautam Gulati	Karishma Tanna
Bigg Boss 9 (Hindi)		Salman Khan	October 11, 2015 - January 23, 2016	105	20	Prince Narula	Rishabh Sinha
Bigg Boss 10 (Hindi)			October 16, 2016 - January 30, 2017	106	18	Manveer Gurjar	Bani Judge
Bigg Boss 11 (Hindi)			October 1, 2017 - January 14, 2018		19	Shilpa Shinde	Hina Khan
Bigg Boss 12 (Hindi)			September 15, 2018 - December 30, 2018		20	Dipika Kakar	Sreesanth Nair
Bigg Boss 13 (Hindi)			September 29, 2019 - February 15, 2020	140	21	Sidharth Shukla	Asim Riaz
Bigg Boss 14 (Hindi)			October 3, 2020 - February 21, 2021	144	23	Rubina Dilaik	Rahul Vaidya
Bigg Boss OTT 1 (Hindi)	Voot	Karan Johar	August 8, 2021 - September 18, 2021	42	13	Divya Agarwal	Nishant Bhat
Bigg Boss 15 (Hindi)	Colors TV	Salman Khan	October 2, 2021 - January 30, 2022	121	24	Tejasswi Prakash	Pratik Sehajpal
Bigg Boss 16 (Hindi)			October 1, 2022 - February 12, 2023	135	17	Altaf Shaikh	Shiv Thakare
Bigg Boss OTT 2 (Hindi)	JioCinema		June 17, 2023 - August 14, 2023	59	15	Elvish Yadav	Abhishek Malhan
Bigg Boss 17 (Hindi)	Colors TV		October 15, 2023 - January 28, 2024	106	21	Munawar Faruqui	Abhishek Kumar
Bigg Boss OTT 3 (Hindi)	JioCinema	Anil Kapoor	June 21, 2024 - August 2, 2024	43	17	Sana Makbul	Naezy Shaikh
Bigg Boss 18 (Hindi)	Colors TV	Salman Khan	October 6, 2024 - January 19, 2025	107	23	Karanveer Mehra	Vivian Dsena

Bengali

Bigg Boss Bangla Seasons
Season	Channel	Host	Season Run	Days	Housemates	Winner	Runner-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	April 4, 2016 - July 10, 2016	98		Joyjit Banerjee	Priya Paul

Kannada

Bigg Boss Kannada Seasons
Season	Channel	Host	Season Run	Days	Housemates	Winner	Runner-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		18	Shruthi Priyadarshini	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	99	20	Shashi Kumar	Naveen Sajju
Bigg Boss Kannada 7	Colors Kannada		October 13, 2019 - February 2, 2020	113		Shine Shetty	Kuri Prathap
Bigg Boss Kannada 8			February 28, 2021 - May 9, 2021	118		Manju Pavagada	Aravind KP
			June 23, 2021 - August 8, 2021
Bigg Boss Kannada: Mini Season			August 14, 2021 - September 5, 2021	6	15	No Winner
Bigg Boss Kannada OTT 1	Voot		August 6, 2022 - September 16, 2022	43	16	Roopesh Shetty	Rakesh Adiga
Bigg Boss Kannada 9	Colors Kannada		September 24, 2022 - December 31, 2022	99	18	Roopesh Shetty	Rakesh Adiga
Bigg Boss Kannada 10			October 8, 2023 - January 28, 2024	113	19	Karthik Mahesh	Drone Prathap
Bigg Boss Kannada 11			September 29, 2024 - January 26, 2025	120	20	Hanumantha Lamani	Trivikram

Malayalam

Bigg Boss Malayalam Seasons
Season	Channel	Host	Season Run	Days	Housemates	Winner	Runner-Up
Bigg Boss Malayalam 1	Asianet	Mohanlal	June 24, 2018 - September 30, 2018	99	18	Sabumon Abdusamad	Pearle Maaney
Bigg Boss Malayalam 2			January 5, 2020 - March 20, 2020	76	22	Season Discontinued
Bigg Boss Malayalam 3			February 14, 2021 - May 20, 2021	96	18	Manikuttan James	Sai Vishnu
			August 1, 2021
Bigg Boss Malayalam 4			March 27, 2022 - July 3, 2022	99	20	Dilsha Prasannan	Mohammed Blesslee
Bigg Boss Malayalam 5			March 26, 2023 - July 2, 2023		21	Akhil Marar	Reneesha Rahiman
Bigg Boss Malayalam 6			March 10, 2024 - June 16, 2024		25	Jinto PD	Arjun Syam
Bigg Boss Malayalam 7			2025

Marathi

Bigg Boss Marathi Seasons
Season	Channel	Host	Season Run	Days	Housemates	Winner	Runner-Up
Bigg Boss Marathi 1	Colors Marathi	Mahesh Manjrekar	April 15, 2018 - July 22, 2018	99	18	Megha Dhade	Pushkar Jog
Bigg Boss Marathi 2			May 26, 2019 - September 1, 2019		17	Shiv Thakare	Neha Shitole
Bigg Boss Marathi 3			September 19, 2021 - December 26, 2021			Vishhal Nikam	Jay Dudhane
Bigg Boss Marathi 4			October 2, 2022 - January 8, 2023		19	Akshay Kelkar	Apurva Nemlekar
Bigg Boss Marathi 5		Riteish Deshmukh	July 28, 2024 - October 6, 2024	71	17	Suraj Chavan	Abhijeet Sawant

Tamil

Bigg Boss Tamil Seasons
Season	Channel	Host	Season Run	Days	Housemates	Winner	Runner-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	106	17	Riythvika Kasayam	Aishwarya Dutta
Bigg Boss Tamil 3			June 23, 2019 - October 6, 2019			Mugen Rao	Sandy Master
Bigg Boss Tamil 4			October 4, 2020 - January 17, 2021		18	Aari Arjunan	Balaji Murugadoss
Bigg Boss Tamil 5			October 3, 2021 - January 16, 2022		20	Raju Jeyamohan	Priyanka Deshpande
Bigg Boss Ultimate	Disney+ Hotstar	Kamal Haasan Silambarasan	January 30, 2022 - April 10, 2022	71	16	Balaji Murugadoss	Niroop Nandakumar
Bigg Boss Tamil 6	Star Vijay	Kamal Haasan	October 9, 2022 - January 22, 2023	106	21	Mohamed Azeem	Vikraman Radhakrishnan
Bigg Boss Tamil 7			October 1, 2023 - January 14, 2024		23	Archana Ravichandran	Manichandra Mani
Bigg Boss Tamil 8		Vijay Sethupathi	October 6, 2024 - January 19, 2025		24	Muthukumaran Jegatheesan	Soundariya Nanjundan

Telugu

Bigg Boss Telugu Seasons
Season	Channel	Host	Season Run	Days	Housemates	Winner	Runner-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	113	18	Kaushal Manda	Geetha Madhuri
Bigg Boss Telugu 3		Akkineni Nagarjuna	July 21, 2019 - November 3, 2019	106	17	Rahul Sipligunj	Sreemukhi Rathod
Bigg Boss Telugu 4			September 6, 2020 - December 20, 2020		19	Abijeet Duddala	Akhil Sarthak
Bigg Boss Telugu 5			September 5, 2021 - December 19, 2021			VJ Sunny	Shanmukh Jaswanth
Bigg Boss Non-Stop	Disney+ Hotstar		February 26, 2022 - May 21, 2022	85	18	Bindu Madhavi	Akhil Sarthak
Bigg Boss Telugu 6	Star Maa		September 4, 2022 - December 18, 2022	106	21	LV Revanth	Shrihan Shri
Bigg Boss Telugu 7			September 3, 2023 - December 17, 2023		19	Pallavi Prashanth	Amardeep Chowdary
Bigg Boss Telugu 8			September 1, 2024 - December 15, 2024		22	Nikhil Maliyakkal	Gautham Krishna
Bigg Boss Telugu 9			2025