Big Brother (UK) - Schedule

Schedule

Each highlight show features the events that happened in the previous day in the house. On the Live Eviction Shows, the housemates are evicted the same day as the results are shown, and the highlight show from the next day will often show their eviction again (without the interview.) The highlights show was originally aired in an 11pm half-hour slot when the first series was launched before being moved to 10pm halfway through. The show retained this 10pm half-hour slot until it was extended to fifty minutes during Big Brother 5 and 6. The seventh series saw the launch of hour-long shows at 9pm. During the Channel 4 era, the show was repeated on E4 later in the day during the afternoon. Friday's half-hour live episode was repeated Saturday mornings on Channel 4's T4 and then repeated Saturday evening on E4 and in the T4 and E4 repeats, housemate entrances and exits were generally edited so that they go dark to light, and also they slow down some of the action. This however can cause severe ghosting in the picture. It is possible this was done to lower the risk of flashing cameras to people who sufferer from photosensitive epilepsy, even though Channel 4 does not broadcast with low brightness. Since then the scheduling had been erratic, with 10pm highlights shows extended to seventy minutes and 8pm, 9pm and 9.30pm shows kept to one hour. Each night's show was repeated the next morning on Channel 4, during their breakfast schedule.

The Channel 5 highlights show is generally shown at 10pm, with the Friday night eviction at 9pm, followed by the live eviction show and interview at 11pm. Through the week, the highlights show is repeated at 12.15pm on Channel 5, followed by another repeat on 5* at 4pm. Times vary for the weekend repeats.

In all cases, the repeat showing is a repeat of the previous evening's show that is slightly censored in compliance with the pre-watershed broadcasting regulations.