Big Brother Africa 3 Online

The concept is simple – a 24/7 show documents the doings of a group of players living in complete isolation from the outside world, and in competition with each other.

First dreamed up in 1997 by billionaire media mogul and former Endemol CEO, John de Mol, Big Brother enjoys the reputation of being the most popular reality TV show of all time.

The first ever Big Brother was aired in the Netherlands in September 1999, to instant success. Big Brother has since been staged in virtually every other part of the world, claiming prime time viewing in almost 70 countries.

The concept is simple – a 24/7 show documents the doings of a group of players living in complete isolation from the outside world, and in competition with each other, their every waking and sleeping moment recorded by cameras and microphones.

Though each country has introduced variations to the format, the core concept has stayed the same: no TV, radio, telephone, internet or other media are available to the Housemates, not even writing materials. For the duration of the show, the housemates’ only contact is with each other – barring requests for a psychologist, doctor or dentist – and, of course, with Big Brother.

Big Brother makes the rules, punishes those who disobey them, and rewards those who please him. He keeps the Housemates guessing from the minute the doors close behind them until the very last second before the winner is announced.

Each week the Housemates are given a shopping budget to buy their necessities – but this can swell or dwindle depending on how they do in the weekly Tasks set by Big Brother.

Essentially, Big Brother is a popularity contest. Week on week, the Housemates have to vie for favour – each other’s, but most importantly, yours. The voting public eliminates contestants one by one, and the last Housemate standing wins a $100 000 (US) cash prize.

The African continent has witnessed three successful seasons of Big Brother since 2001. Ferdinand Rabie emerged winner in the first series: Big Brother South Africa. In 2006, Endemol SA produced a version of the series in Nigeria, ultimately won by 26 year-old Katung Aduwak.

Later in 2006, the first Pan-African version of the smash franchise was launched, and proved to be a sensation. Zambia’s Cherise Makubale snatched the grand prize.

By popular demand, Big Brother Africa returned in 2007. The second season was won by the Tanzanian loverboy, Richard Bezuidenhout, whose on-air relationship with Angola’s Tatiana Durao caused continental commotion on a scale no other screen couple – factual or fictional – had ever commanded.

Now the absorbing 24/7, one-ring circus is back on screen, and soon to be the talk of Africa once more. No-one – not the Housemates, not the public, not even Big Brother – can predict what’s going to happen this time. And that’s what keeps us coming back for more...

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