'Big Brother' Starts Season 20 on CBS June 27

Summer reality staple Big Brother kicks off season 20 with a two-night premiere on CBS June 27 and June 28. Sixteen contestants will vie for the title. Julie Chen hosts.

The first live eviction show July 5 falls on the series premiere date, 18 years before.

CBS All Access gives subscribers the chance to meet the houseguests early, sharing a live stream of their interviews starting June 18.

Big Brother follows a group of people living together in a house with 94 HD cameras and 113 microphones recording their every move. Each week, one of the 16 is voted out of the house. The last remaining houseguest gets $500,000.

Big Brother is produced by Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan for Fly on the Wall Entertainment, in association with Endemol Shine North America.

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Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.