Once again, NBC’s America’s Got Talent won Tuesday in primetime, beating Big Brother‘s season premiere on CBS to become the ratings head of the household. The popular talent competition garnered 9.97 million viewers and 1.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, while the Season 21 premiere of Big Brother took in…

CBS has slotted a two-night premiere for the Julie Chen Moonves-hosted Big Brother. The summer reality series will return with hourlong episodes on Tuesday, June 25 and Wednesday, June 26 at 8 PM. Following the two-night premiere, Big Brother will air Sunday, June 30 at 8 PM with its regular three-weekly-episode…

Season 31 of The Amazing Race will leave the starting line more than a month earlier than scheduled. CBS said today that the new iteration will premiere at 9 PM Wednesday, April 17; it had been set for May 22. With that move, the network has banished LeBron James’ Million Dollar Mile from its Wednesday timeslot to…

Big Brother is returning in Israel following the success of a celebrity version. This marks a boon for Endemol Shine, which has faced some challenges with the twenty-year old reality format including last year’s cancellation of the show on Channel 5 in the UK. Despite this, Endemol Shine's Chief Creative Officer Peter…

Julie Chen tweeted she’s back to work on CBS’ Big Brother franchise. “So excited to be back on this stage,” she tweeted. “Who else is ready for the second season of #BBCeleb?! RT if you’re counting down to the premiere on Monday January 21!” Responses to her tweet were split, with about half falling into the “It…

CBS has confirmed what had been speculated. Julie Chen Moonves will be back as host of Big Brother: Celebrity Edition when it returns for a second season on January 21. As Deadline previously reported, sources close to Chen Moonves had said she planned to continue hosting Big Brother and its Celebrity counterpart for…

The auction for production and distribution giant Endemol Shine is heating up, with one report saying the Big Brother outfit could sell for north of $3B. ITV has withdrawn from the race, leaving French TV group Banijay and Endeavor among the final players in the market for one of Europe’s biggest content creators…

Big Brother (1.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demo, 6.19 million viewers) was Thursday’s most watched broadcast program at 9 PM, besting its Big 4 time-slot competition combined in the demo. It was Thursday’s only original primetime program on the broadcast nets. CBS The Big Bang Theory repeat (1.2, 7.54M) dominated 8…

Two questions loomed over tonight’s live Big Brother episode: Will she? Or won’t she? The answer: Yes, Julie Chen once again added her married name, Moonves, to address the audience at the beginning and end of the show. That marks the third time that’s happened in what’s fast becoming a regular routine for the host…

EXCLUSIVE: Her sexual misconduct-accused husband may have been knocked off his lofty perch as CBS CEO, but Julie Chen Moonves intends to stick around fronting Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother, at least for now. Heading toward next week's Season 20 finale, the ex-The Talk co-host has told individuals at the…

Julie Chen sang the same tune on Wednesday night’s episode of Big Brother. Upon her return to the reality competition, Chen greeted viewers saying “Good evening, I’m Julie Chen Moonves”, which is her way of showing support for her husband Les Moonves, who is faced with numerous sexual misconduct accusations. Clearly…

Panelists on CBS daytime gabfest The Talk very noticeably did not talk about colleague Julie Chen’s dramatic return to the network Thursday night. The Talk episode was taped in advance of Chen’s return. Competing daytime talker The View was happy to take up the slack. Panelists on that ABC show discussed at length…