CBS Renews Big Brother

Posted Feb 1, 2007 by Walt Belcher

Updated Feb 1, 2007 at 03:50 PM

This just in:

CBS has picked up the reality series “BIG BROTHER”, hosted by Julie Chen, for an eighth installment to be broadcast this summer.

    Last season’s “BIG BROTHER: ALL-STARS ” featured 20 All-Star houseguests. After 71 days and 1,704 hours, Mike “Boogie” Malin, a 35-year-old restaurateur originally from Concord, N.H., was crowned the winner and claimed the $500,000 prize.

“BIG BROTHER 8” will follow the relationships and conflicts of players who live together in a house outfitted with dozens of cameras and microphones recording their every move 24 hours a day.  One by one, the Houseguests will vote each other out of the house.  At the end of three months, the last remaining Houseguest will receive the grand prize of $500,000.  It will debut in the summer.