{"id":43439,"date":"2025-09-25T22:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/43439\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T22:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:14:13","slug":"big-brother-fans-disappointed-as-new-season-wont-broadcast-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/43439\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother fans disappointed as new season won&#8217;t broadcast in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/news\/entertainment\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Onic Entertainment<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/68d544f5b4b22.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    (Instagram\/@bbcuk)<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Fans are not happy&#8230;\n        <\/p>\n<p data-end=\"201\" data-start=\"79\">Big Brother fans have been left frustrated after Virgin Media Ireland confirmed it won\u2019t be showing the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"313\" data-start=\"203\">The broadcaster has aired the ITV reality series in Ireland since 2015, after securing the rights that year.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"537\" data-start=\"315\">But ahead of the 2025 edition, Virgin Media revealed it will no longer carry the show. Posting on X, the official account stated: \u201cIn case you\u2019ve heard otherwise:\u2014Virgin Media will not be airing Big Brother this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"687\" data-start=\"539\">\u201cWe know there\u2019s been some confusion, and we appreciate your understanding. We\u2019re focusing on fresh new content we think you\u2019ll love. Stay tuned!\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Virgin Media will not be airing Big Brother this season. We know there\u2019s been some confusion, and we appreciate your understanding. We\u2019re focusing on fresh new content we think you\u2019ll love. Stay tuned! ^Rachel<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virgin Media Ireland (@VirginMediaIE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VirginMediaIE\/status\/1970840236482773393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 24, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">Virgin Media Two, which was previously the home of Big Brother, will instead be airing the Love Island GamesGames in its place.<\/p>\n<p data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">The American series, hosted by Ariana Madix, sees contestants from various Love Island international series compete in a series of challenges as they attempt to find romance again.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/on-air\/ways-to-listen\/?utm_source=Live95&amp;utm_medium=buzz+article&amp;utm_campaign=app_download\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6655efe7844a7.jpg\" style=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Onic Entertainment (Instagram\/@bbcuk) Fans are not happy&#8230; Big Brother fans have been left frustrated after Virgin Media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,608,611,607,610,609,612,43],"class_list":["post-43439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-radio","tag-limerick-today","tag-limericks-live95fm","tag-live-95","tag-live95fm","tag-live95fm-homepage","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}