{"id":9092,"date":"2020-04-07T22:26:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T03:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=9092"},"modified":"2020-04-14T14:25:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T19:25:32","slug":"cbs-to-halt-production-on-season-22-of-big-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/07\/cbs-to-halt-production-on-season-22-of-big-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS to Halt Production on Season 22 of &#8220;Big Brother&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9096\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-brother-house-frown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-brother-house-frown.jpg 556w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-brother-house-frown-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-brother-house-frown-260x147.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-brother-house-frown-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/>The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> announced today that fans will be without new seasons of <strong><em>Big Brother<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Love Island<\/em><\/strong> this Summer. Fortunately, it does have a full season of globe-trotting unscripted series <em><strong>The Amazing Race<\/strong><\/em> ready to go. Following the recent ViacomCBS re-merger, the network will have access to originals from Viacom brands, including Paramount Network, to fill the programming gap.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9094\" style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-brother-news.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9094 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-brother-news-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-brother-news-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-brother-news-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-brother-news-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-brother-news-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-brother-news-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-brother-news-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/big-brother-news.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Chen-Moonves welcomes the first 8 houseguests of last year&#8217;s season of Big Brother.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With so many productions shut down, I highly suspect the 22nd season <em><strong>Big Brother<\/strong><\/em> will be rescheduled for later in 2020, or maybe early 2021.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2096872846\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hollywood Reporter announced today that fans will be without new seasons of Big Brother and Love Island this Summer. Fortunately, it does have a full season of globe-trotting unscripted series The Amazing Race ready to go. Following the recent ViacomCBS re-merger, the network will have access to originals from Viacom brands, including Paramount Network, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv_news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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