{"id":780616,"date":"2026-07-23T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780616\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:46:09","slug":"cbs-big-brother-delivers-solid-rating-unlocked-spinoff-scores-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780616\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS\u2019 \u2018Big Brother\u2019 Delivers Solid Rating; Unlocked Spinoff Scores Big"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBig Brother<\/a> is continuing to house solid ratings for CBS<\/a> as its spinoff series Big Brother: Unlocked<\/a> delivered its most-watched episode ever.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe classic reality series, which premiered on July 9, averaged 5M viewers across its premiere week with the first three episodes of Season 28, per Nielsen. This was up 14% from last year, which saw it average 4.34M.<\/p>\n

\n\tUsing live-plus-three day multiplatform ratings, the show also grew 13% with adults aged between 18 and 49 and was up 18% with adults 25-54.<\/p>\n

\n\tCBS also got a bit spicy, claiming that during its premiere window, Big Brother outperformed its former paramour Love Island on Peacock by 58% per episode. The dating show, which aired its first three seasons on CBS, averaged 3.15M for its premiere week, per the network.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis comes as the Julie Chen Moonves-hosted series, created by John De Mol, landed its most-watched premiere episode in five years.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 28 of Big Brother introduced a time travel theme with 14 new Houseguests alongside surprise appearances from reality vets Angela Murray, Rachel Reilly\u00a0and Rick Devens.<\/p>\n

\n\tSurvivor winner Dee Valladares entered the game during the premiere of Big Brother: Unlocked.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat move helped the spinoff series, which is hosted by Jerry O\u2019Connell, Taylor Hale and Derrick Lavaseur, score its most-watched episode ever, averaging 3.44 million viewers up 46% from its premiere last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tBig Brother: Unlocked features analysis as well as additional footage not aired during Big Brother. It launched last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tBig Brother is produced by Fly on the Wall Entertainment in association with Endemol Shine North America. Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan exec produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big Brother is continuing to house solid ratings for CBS as its spinoff series Big Brother: Unlocked delivered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[990,100670,991,88,92],"class_list":["post-780616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-big-brother","tag-big-brother-unlocked","tag-cbs","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}