Showtime Re-ups Big Brother: After Dark

LOS ANGELES, January 9:
CBS and Showtime will partner to roll out a second installment of Big
Brother: After Dark next month,
for broadcast on the premium cable network’s SHO2 multiplex channel as a live
three-hour feed from midnight to 3 a.m., seven days a week.

Premiering February 12, Big
Brother: After Dark provides an
exclusive, live televised look inside the Big Brother house after CBS’s prime-time cameras are turned
off.

The first winter edition
of Big Brother will premiere on
CBS February 12, and will air every Tuesday at 9 p.m., Wednesday at 8 p.m. and
Sunday at 8 p.m.

“Big Brother: After
Dark was a big success for us at
bringing an audience to very late-night time periods on SHO2,” said Robert
Greenblatt, the president of entertainment at Showtime Networks. “This began as
an experiment with our friends at Endemol and CBS, and I’m happy that it worked
so well for all of us. I’m amazed at how much curiosity there is about what
goes on in the Big Brother
house after the lights are out, but what better place to present that than on
Showtime, where we have a lot of on-air real estate in the wee hours of the
morning.”

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski