Have you ever seen that there’s a lot of actuality tv on the printed networks this fall? Dancing With the Stars is again after a stint on Disney+. Survivor and The Wonderful Race have each been supersized to 90 minutes. And Large Brother — often a summer time staple — is now extending all the best way into November.
In fact, most of that’s as a result of writers’ and actors’ strikes that introduced scripted manufacturing to a standstill. And with the SAG-AFTRA walkout nonetheless in impact, one has to marvel when authentic scripted sequence will probably be again on the printed airwaves. And if networks like CBS haven’t any reveals with initials like NCIS, FBI, or CSI to placed on the air, what’s their plan B?
With that in thoughts, we requested host Julie Chen Moonves if we’d see one other winter version of Superstar Large Brother. The truncated version has aired thrice since its debut in 2018 — with two of the seasons performing as counter-programming to the Winter Olympics. Once we requested CBS again in January if there have been any plans for future movie star editions of the franchise, the community instructed EW there have been none — however that was months earlier than Hollywood shut down.
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With a lot uncertainly nonetheless swirling round broadcast schedules in 2024, we requested Chen Moonves a couple of potential early 2024 movie star season, and the host instructed us she had been asking the exact same factor. “I’ve been poking round with the producers asking the identical query,” she says. “I feel the SAG strike may place Large Brother to be in demand, however they haven’t made the decision but.”
Chen thinks the present may appeal to all method of well-known faces, even when a strike continues to be in impact, noting, “Now we are able to e book the celebrities. That is one thing that they’ll take part in, like with Dancing With the Stars. They’re obtainable now and other people wish to work.”
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Actors had been certainly permitted to look on the present season of Dancing With the Stars with the union noting in a press release that “Our members showing on Dancing With the Stars are working underneath the Community Code settlement, which is a non-struck contract. They’re required to go to work, aren’t in violation of SAG-AFTRA strike guidelines, and we help them in fulfilling their contractual obligations…. This system is a SAG-AFTRA non-dramatic manufacturing underneath a separate settlement that isn’t topic to the union’s strike order.”
Even when the union modified its stance or actors would wish to steer clear, the present may nonetheless appeal to athletes, musicians, comedians, and different actuality stars — who often comprise the majority of a Superstar Large Brother season anyway. However Chen is definitely pitching a unique type of shortened winter installment. “I do not suppose a celeb run will occur,” the host says. “However possibly we may have a month’s value that’s particular in its personal manner. Perhaps you convey again Legends, for these are the actual Large Brother celebrities.”
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The idea of a Large Brother Legends season was first floated to EW by none aside from season 13 champ Rachel Reilly in June of 2022. “I feel the Large Brother fan base would like to see Rachel, Janelle, Danielle Reyes and Vanessa play collectively,” Reilly instructed EW then. ” This is able to be my DREAM COME TRUE!… Perhaps we are able to save that for a ‘better of’ season within the Superstar Large Brother spot. I feel we may all make it occur throughout a three-week season. Trace… trace, CBS.”
Now, it appears Chen is singing the identical tune. “They might play a quick, one-month model,” the host says. “Or possibly we get three months value beginning in January or February. Even when the strike ended proper now, nothing’s going to enter manufacturing till January, so possibly you do want a month’s value of Large Brother simply to fill.”
With the possible lack of scripted programming at the beginning of the 12 months, some form of winter season of Large Brother nearly makes an excessive amount of sense to not occur. And if they can not entice the likes of Rachel, Dan Gheesling, Taylor Hale, Dr. Will and others to return, Chen Moonves thinks in that case a celeb version may certainly work. And if that had been to occur, whom would she wish to see in the home? “In my unrealistic dream season, it might be Tom Brady, Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, Snoop Dogg, Martha Stewart — that complete group.”
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