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EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4’s director of programs Ian Katz has said he would consider bringing back Big Brother, and revealed that youth channel E4 is conducting a major hunt for a new reality show. In an exclusive interview with Deadline, Katz said he would not dismiss out of hand an approach from Endemol Shine Group…

EXCLUSIVE: Viacom’s Channel 5 has raided the BBC again for on-screen talent — this time poaching the cooking duo known as the Hairy Bikers for a chocolate-making competition in partnership with Nestlé. Deadline can reveal that David Myers and Simon King will make their first major non-BBC show for Channel 5, in a…

Banijay has agreed a €2BN ($2.2BN) takeover of Endemol Shine Group, marking the end of a protracted sales process for the giant production company behind shows including Black Mirror. It comes 18 months after Deadline broke the news that Endemol Shine was set to go on the block. France-based Banijay emerged as the…

Cassandra Waldon, the first US resident of the Big Brother house, died Sept. 25 from injuries sustained in a car accident. She was 56.Waldon worked for the United Nations in Rome, Italy, and was struck by a car there two months ago. She never regained consciousness from the head injury she sustained. Big Brother…

CBS’ Big Brother (1.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 4.41 million viewers) was the highest-rated show in primetime Thursday, a night filled with specials, pennant-stretch baseball and a bit of NFL overrun. The 9 PM Thursday edition of Big Brother was predictably up, by a tenth, over Wednesday’s 8 PM episode…

Kodi Lee took the big prize last night as the winner of America's Got Talent's 14th season, but there wasn't much of a victory dance for the Simon Cowell show or NBC. With a 1.5 rating among adults 18-49, AGT fell 29% from its Season 13 finisher of September 19, 2018 to hit an all-time finale low. While the 10.08…

Big Brother, widely considered to have kick-started the international reality formats business, turns 20 today. The show first launched on September 16, 1999 on RTL's Dutch network Veronica with nine housemates moving into a purpose-built house in Holland equipped with 24 cameras. Some 471 series and 28,391 episodes…

The gang at BH90210 graduated from the first season of their revival on a decent note Wednesday, ticking up from last week with a preliminary 0.7 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 1.91 million viewers. Despite last night’s gain, the series’ numbers gradually declined from its series premiere, which started…

UPDATE, 12:47 PM: The NFL's 100th season is officially underway and last night's Green Bay Packers' winning kickoff game against the Chicago Bears looks to have gotten things off on the right foot. The match-up snagged an audience of 22.0 million for NBC from 8:23 – 11:30 PM on Thursday. That's up 15.7% over the…

It seems that BH90210 is not making the grade for Fox. The meta (and wildly soapy and self-aware) revival of the classic Aaron Spelling primetime teen soap continues to slip since its strong debut. The latest episode Wednesday fell a tenth from last week with a 0.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 1.92…

EXCLUSIVE: Big Brother is returning for another season on CBS next year and so is Julie Chen Moonves as the host of the long-running reality show. The former The Talk co-host has inked a deal with the Viacom-merging company to do Season 22 of Big Brother, I've learned. The next installment is slated to air next…

ABC’s primetime college football season opener featuring No. 4-ranked Oklahoma against Houston drew a night-leading 1.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 5.34 million viewers, proving to be a worthy opponent to CBS’ Big Brother (0.9, 4.10M) on Sunday. Big Brother dipped two-tenths compared with last week’s…