Izuchukwu Okosi
Seven years after the last edition was held in South Africa, Africa’s top reality TV show, Big Brother Africa, will return to the screens in 2022.
MultiChoice’ South African TV network, Mzansi Magic, announced the return of the classic reality television show, ‘Big Brother Africa’, after the hiatus.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelAccording to Mzanzi Magic, casting has begun in earnest for the show, tagged ‘Big Brother Mzansi’, and produced by Randburg-based Red Pepper Pictures (same producers of the Nigerian edition of the show).
Some of Nigeria’s past representatives include Bayo Okoh and Karen Igho (pictured in our featured image).
Confirming the forthcoming show, M-Net’s Executive Head of Programming, Nomsa Philiso, said: “This year marks 20 years since the very first Big Brother on MultiChoice’s M-Net and we are excited to celebrate this milestone by commissioning a new Big Brother season, which will be housed under our Mzansi Magic stable.”
Prior to its hiatus, the show hosted in South Africa, saw contestants from 12 African countries, including Nigeria, and saw the rise to fame of quite a number of celebrated media personalities across the Continent.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
