{"id":13694,"date":"2024-06-06T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigbrotherus.com\/?p=10195"},"modified":"2024-06-06T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:43:09","slug":"does-big-brother-26s-later-start-mean-a-shorter-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijas.com\/bbusa\/does-big-brother-26s-later-start-mean-a-shorter-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Big Brother 26\u2019s later start mean a shorter season?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CBS announced its summer schedule early last month, including its signature summer reality TV show\u2014and overall Big Brother<\/strong>, which will return just over a week before the Paris Olympics\u2019 opening ceremonies.<\/p>\n

In 2023, because of dual Hollywood strikes,\u00a0Big Brother<\/strong>\u00a0didn\u2019t premiere until Aug. 2, and then continued into November, way too late for a show that\u2019s supposed to fade away along with summer humidity and be the kind of thing you can forget happened, like\u00a0killing a fisherman.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this year\u00a0Big Brother<\/strong> returns to being more normal: BB26 will premiere July 17 and 18. Still, that\u2019s almost two weeks later than\u00a0BB24<\/strong>\u2019s July 6 premiere. Does that mean a shorter season, too?<\/p>\n

Pre-pandemic\u2014and ever since\u00a0the wretched BB15<\/a>\u2014Big Brother<\/strong>\u00a0followed a pretty regular schedule: premiering in late June, concluding in mid-to-late September, and running more than 90 days. (The weird years of 2020 and 2023 were exceptions.) For example:<\/p>\n