Big Brother

Posted at 12:48 22 Aug

Jade Goody doc should be a 'reminder', charity says

The spike in cervical screenings after Jade Goody's diagnosis did not last long, a charity says.

Posted at 22:37 29 Jul

NI's reality TV stars - from Tyrone Tom to Dr Leah

Niamh Campbell

BBC News NI

With Love Island ending on Monday, we look back at some of NI's biggest reality TV names.

Posted at 0:03 6 Jun

Why 1984 still matters

Why Nineteen Eighty-Four still matters

It's 70 years since George Orwell published the dystopian classic which introduced us to Big Brother.

Posted at 17:57 5 Mar

Big Brother break-in YouTubers sentenced

One of the pair dropped his trousers then jumped into a hot tub used by housemates, a court hears.

Posted at 14:12 20 Feb

Big Brother star claimed benefits in house

Sallie Axl "should be ashamed" of claiming housing benefit while on the show, a judge says.

Posted at 17:05 18 Jan

'Daily' homophobic abuse for Big Brother winner

Steve Holden

Newsbeat music reporter

Cameron Cole came out on last year's final series but says he gets abuse online and in person.

Posted at 13:34 3 Jan

It's Only a Game

Paul Jackson explores how Big Brother became the TV phenomenon of a new millennium.

Paul Jackson explores how locking strangers in the Big Brother house became the TV phenomenon of a new millennium.

The show, which spawned the reality genre, proved that showing ordinary people could make great TV, thereby democratising the celebrity process. And viewers, who watched in their millions, could change the story as it went on. 

Includes insights from John De Mol, the Dutchman who dreamt up The Golden Cage (which later became Big Brother); Tim Gardam, the man who brought it to Channel 4 in July 2000; and former contestants Anthea Turner and Nick Bateman.

Producer: Paul Kobrak

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.

Posted at 13:05 27 Dec 2018