Big Brother (UK)

Big Brother is a reality television series broadcast in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Channel 4, and also available on S4C in Wales and E4, in which a number of contestants live in isolation from the outside world in a custom built house trying to avoid eviction by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run. It is produced by Brighter Pictures, a part of Endemol. The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopia in which Big Brother is the all-seeing omnipotent leader of Oceania. The main shows are hosted by Davina McCall and narrated by Marcus Bentley. The show premiered on Channel 4 on 18th July 2000.