I said I wasn't going to do this but here we are.
Big Brother UK is back on after a 5 year absence and its the currently the only English speaking version of Big Brother I am aware of that still follows the original format with the public voting the Housemates out which makes for a completely different, some would say 'boring' game. I do not find it boring myself, I find it really entertaining and 'smart' as production doesn't dumb things down for us and also lets things go at a slower pace. And with six hours worth of show a week (vs three in the USA), there is a lot to see.
So the new season, called Season 1 - NOT Season 20, kicked off on Sunday with a 90 minute episode and its on nightly except Saturday and the first eviction is this Friday. Here is some more basic info (always subject to change and I can't promise I'll return to update this):
The regular show is on at 9pm (GMT) which is 4pm ET and is 60 minutes. They also have a 65 minute talk show "Late & Live" on from 10-11:05pm and some nights they will show some live feeds online after "Late & Live." You technically can watch all of these using one of the methods I'll present below but I personally am mainly sticking to the regular show.
At this point I am going to carefully walk around the elephant in the room which is those that have issues with people from outside the UK watching content that is, in theory, meant to be exclusive to the UK viewing audience. My personal take is that I am a huge fan of the show and I am also a fan of the same show in the USA, and Canada, and Australia, I don't think I hurt the shows popularity in any country, as a matter of fact I feel like I actually increase interest in the show in every country!
So on with the ways you can watch Big Brother UK. Understand it is not my intention to be your tech support, I am going to give you some tools and if you can't sort them out, reach out to your closest computer geek for help.
The easiest way to watch will likely be over at the website videobrother.net - on that site they have the Season listed as "Season 20" and they have been posting both the regular show (eg EP03a) and the "Late & Live" shows (eg EP03b-BBLL). Honestly as long as they keep posting them that might be the way to go. (Update - not sure I can continue to suggest this as there is a lot of pop up ads you have to navigate)
The next way would be a private playlist on Daily Motion I have created and, hopefully, will keep up-to-date. For the short term I will link to individual episodes but eventually I may just ask that you get an account on Daily Montion (free) and then you can see the playlist. Here are the current episodes, I will add to this list when I can - hopefully within a day of each airing:
- BBUK 2023 s01e01 pt 1
- BBUK 2023 s01e01 pt 2
- **** 10/14/23 I've move the rest to an old blog post - you can go there and bookmark it to catch the rest of the show including Late and Live episodes.... click here......
