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Big Brother
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Vinony's link graph records 972 inbound references to Big Brother, and connects out to JioHotstar, Balkans and Canal RCN.
Vinony files it under Banijay franchises, Big Brother (franchise) and Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from November 2025.
Vinony links it to 41 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Created by
- John de Mol Jr.
- Original work
- Big Brother (Netherlands)
- Owner
- Banijay Entertainment
- Years
- 1999–present
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- media franchise
- Named after
- Big Brother
- Owned by
- Banijay Entertainment
- Genre
- reality television
- Country of origin
- Netherlands
- Creator
- John de Mol Jr.
- Production company
- Endemol
- Official website
- www.endemol.com/programme/big-brother
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- original broadcaster
- Veronica
- topic's main category
- Category:Big Brother (franchise)
- Commons category
- Big Brother (franchise)
- distributed by
- Endemol
- start time
- 1999-09-16
- hashtag
- BB
- short name
- BB
- topic has template
- Template:Big Brother
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Encyclopedic overview
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Big Brother is a reality competition television franchise created by John de Mol Jr., first broadcast in the Netherlands in 1999 and subsequently syndicated internationally beginning in 2000. The show features contestants called "housemates" or "HouseGuests" who live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world. The show has been cited as having had widespread influence on the status of television and celebrity.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Big Brother” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.