{"id":867837,"date":"2026-10-02T04:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867837\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T04:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:04:08","slug":"big-brother-renewed-for-seasons-29-30-on-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867837\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big Brother&#8217; Renewed For Seasons 29 &#038; 30 On CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/big-brother\/\" id=\"auto-tag_big-brother\" data-tag=\"big-brother\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big Brother<\/a> USA wrapped another season on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs\" data-tag=\"cbs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>, and host <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/julie-chen-moonves\/\" id=\"auto-tag_julie-chen-moonves\" data-tag=\"julie-chen-moonves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Chen Moonves<\/a> announced the network had renewed the competition series for two more seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter announcing the winner of Season 28, Moonves confirmed the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/reality-tv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_reality-tv\" data-tag=\"reality-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reality TV<\/a> competition had been picked up for Seasons 29 and 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe most current season hit a milestone, becoming the first primetime series to reach 1,000 original episodes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBig Brother follows a group of strangers who live in a house under 24\/7 surveillance as they scheme and form alliances to make it to the end for a chance to win a $750,000 cash prize. The runner up of the season also wins $75,0000, while America votes for their favorite houseguest and awards them $50,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBig Brother Season 28\u2019s cast included Ashley Trail (24), Barrett Pfeiffer (27), Chuck Anyanwu (27), Drew Campbell (22), Haley Thogmartin (29), Jason de Puy (35), Kamuela \u201cKamu\u201d Kirk (32), LaTrice Verrett (57), Lyric Medeiros (25), Mallory Aurichio (24), Melody Morris (24), Rome Seymour (28) and Taylor Brown (27). The competition also added a trio of icons to the cast:\u00a0BB26\u00a0alum\u00a0Angela Murray\u00a0(52),\u00a0Survivor\u00a0star\u00a0Rick Devens\u00a0(42), and Dee Valladares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCBS recently revealed that\u00a0Big Brother\u00a0viewers have watched 14.8 billion minutes of twists, blindsides, and unforgettable moments throughout Season 28, up +9% from last summer. The summer staple also saw year-over-year audience growth, averaging 5.1 million viewers in seven-day multiplatform viewing, up +8% from last summer, while ranking as the summer\u2019s most social program across all television programs (excluding sports).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBig Brother also earned two Guinness World Record titles \u2013 Most Episodes of a Primetime TV Series and Most Episodes of a Competitive Reality TV Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big Brother USA wrapped another season on CBS, and host Julie Chen Moonves announced the network had renewed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[990,991,88,51988,604,92],"class_list":["post-867837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-big-brother","tag-cbs","tag-entertainment","tag-julie-chen-moonves","tag-reality-tv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867837","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=867837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}