Grande Fratello, the Italian version of reality television franchise Big Brother, began in September 2000, and has gone on to become a cultural phenomenon in Italy. There have been twelve completed seasons as of 2013.
Based on the Original Dutch Version created by Endemol, the show sees a number of different 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 to.
The Housemates can visit the "Confessional" 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 Nineteen Eighty-Four. The novel tells of a Big Brother, head of the totalitarian state of Oceania that constantly monitors its inhabitants via 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
Andy & Melissa is a reality soap on SBS 6 about Andy van der Meijde and his girlfriend Melisa Schaufeli. Andy van der Meijde was a top football player for several top European teams for many years. He currently lives with Malisa Schaufeli. Melisa Schaufeli previously appeared in the reality shows Paradise Hotel and De Gouden Kooi. Melisa also appeared twice in Playboy. Currently, Melisa owns a hair salon. While working in the salon, she receives help from an au pair who looks after the children. Melisa has a son (Nino) from a previous relationship and has two children with Andy: Lilly and Rox. In Andy and Melisa, we get a glimpse into their lives.
Sommarkrysset is a Swedish television program that is broadcast live from the Gröna Lund amusement park in Stockholm during summer. It was first shown on June 3, 2005.
The program consists of live performances by famous artists in front of a live audience while viewers can call in and win a certain amount of money. To have the chance to win this money, the viewer first has to figure out a word which is derived by entering the answers to questions on a piece of graph paper with 5x5 squares like a crossword.
The program is produced by Baluba Television after a TV-format created by Baluba.
The Lotto draw is usually broadcast live with Ulrika Bengtsson as a presenter, although others have presented the draw at times. Over a longer period, Annika Duckmark has been a regular presenter.
Ellen presents some of the best moments from her talk show throughout the past few years, featuring Sean "Diddy" Combs, Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Lopez, and Billie Eilish.
Based on the successful UK series, some of the country's most beautiful people compete to launch their modeling careers with $100,000 in cash and that hard-to-get agency contract. In a first for the network, Bravo viewers will vote to determine the outcome each week.
Eight male dance crews that represent South Korea will compete to be the No. 1 team. The dancers will showcase various genres of street dance, including hip hop, waacking, Old School, locking, krumping, and breakdancing.
Find out what your favorite stars are crazy about right now! In this program, celebrities share their recent hobbies and also show you what their daily lives are like!
Architectural salvage expert Drew Pritchard looks back at the most eccentric characters, the hardest hagglers and the most extraordinary places he's hunted for antique treasure. Drew gives us the inside track on his wheeling and dealing, the stories behind his picks, as well as top tips about salvaging and how to get the best deals.
Jamie Oliver goes on a mission to change the way people think about vegetables, demonstrating a collection of vibrant, hearty and healthy vegetarian dishes that everyone can add to their kitchen.
A look at treasure quests across the globe—from pirates such as Blackbeard and outlaws like Jesse James, to Aztec gold, priceless historical artifacts from American history and sunken treasure ships—revealing new details and clues from past searches.
R U Next? (알 유 넥스트?) is a 2022 South Korean girl group reality survival show created by Belift Lab. It premiered on June 30, 2023 and broadcasted every Friday at 8:50 p.m. KST on JTBC.
The "Secret Army" series is a reasoning and inference group game whose fictional story is taken from the popular series of the same name with the theme of the events of World War II: a battle between the partisans and the Nazi German army to save the pilots. The story of this scenario is as follows: during the Second World War, ten actors in different roles of partisans, Colonel Kessler, Gestapo, pilot, Reinhard, etc. gather at the Candid Cafe in Belgium in 1945 for a real game. and do real
Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack was a special series of Celebrity Big Brother, a spin-off series of the British reality television programme Big Brother. It was broadcast on E4 from 3 January - 28 January 2008. A number of closely associated programmes also aired on the same channel. Dermot O'Leary - who had hosted Big Brother's Little Brother since 2001 - was the main host of Celebrity Hijack, and it was his final series of Big Brother.
The series was announced on 8 October 2007 by Channel 4 and that it would be replacing Celebrity Big Brother in January 2008, due to the widely publicised racism controversy in Celebrity Big Brother 5. In 2009, Celebrity Big Brother returned to Channel 4 and no further series' of Celebrity Hijack were produced.
The premise of the series saw one celebrity a day taking control, with the help of Big Brother; organising their own tasks, making their own rules and talking to the housemates in the Diary Room. They were in charge of a set of housemates, ranging in age from 18–21 yea