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Aired summer 2015 · The celebrity-guest twist

BB Takeover

The summer the producers handed weekly twist authority to a rotating cast of celebrity guests, each landing in the BB studio to drop a new mechanic into the game. The Takeover device pulls the show's pacing in five directions at once, and the cast — seventeen houseguests including a mid-season twin reveal — never quite settles into the rhythm a Big Brother summer wants. A season the franchise tried, learned from, and quietly walked back. Useful for the experiment.

Filmed
Studio City, California
Premiered
Jun 24, 2015
Episodes
37
Format
17 houseguests · weekly guest-driven twists
a rotating celebrity installs the week's wrench
Host
Julie Chen
On this page4 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02Where it sits in the canon
  3. 03Adjacent in the canon
  4. 04Also appears in
01The take

Tried once, walked back.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #22 slot.

Slot #22 of 27 in the Big Brother Editor's Canon. Twenty-second, ranked below Exes in the House because a season split five ways by rotating celebrity guests never settles into anything as legible as a single unrepeatable twist, even a rough one. BB Takeover still sits ahead of Camp Comeback, though, because whatever the Takeover format's problems, they're problems with the twist itself — a mechanic the franchise tried, disliked, and dropped. That's a cleaner kind of canon failure than what put Camp Comeback in a lower slot, where the issue isn't the format's ambition but what the season came to represent once it aired.

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04Also appears in

Cross-references.

Hosts working the roomlist · 19 entriesBig Brother: every summer gets its own twistlist · 25 entriesThe resemblance was never just a fun factlist · 10 entriesBig Brother — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #22