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Big Brother 26 (American season)
Big Brother 26 (2024) is the 26th US CBS season, themed around the AI character AINSLEY, with 16 houseguests, the AI Arena three-nominee twist, and Chelsie Baham winning 7-0 over Makensy Manbeck.
Big Brother 27 (American season)
The 2025 season of Big Brother, featuring the Hotel Mystère theme, aired on CBS and saw sixteen Houseguests compete for $750,000, culminating in Ashley Hollis's victory.
Big Brother 28 (American season)
Big Brother 28, the 2026 American CBS season with a Time Trip theme, ran July 9 to October 1 with 17 houseguests including reality veterans the Icons; Rick Devens won 6-1 over Taylor Brown.
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Big Brother and the Holding Company, formed in San Francisco in late 1965, is the psychedelic rock band that launched Janis Joplin; its 1968 album Cheap Thrills topped the Billboard chart for eight weeks.
Big Brother Brasil
Big Brother Brasil (BBB) is a reality competition show produced by Brazil's Globo network, the Brazilian adaptation of the Dutch Big Brother format, airing since 2002.
Big Brother Canada
Big Brother Canada is the Canadian adaptation of the Big Brother reality format, also called BBCAN. Twelve seasons aired 2013-2024 on Slice and Global; Bell Media ordered a 2027 revival for CTV and Crave hosted by Andrea Bain.
Big Brother Canada season 12
Big Brother Canada season 12 (BBCAN12), the 2024 Global season of Big Brother Canada. Two All-Stars, Anthony Douglas and Victoria Woghiren, joined 12 rookies; Bayleigh Pelham won 6-1 over Anthony; 29 episodes; Todd Clements won Favourite Player.
Big Brother Canada season 3
Big Brother Canada season 3 (2015) is the Global-aired third season of the Canadian reality series, won by Sarah Hanlon 7-2 over Godfrey Mangwiza, featuring the franchise's first triple eviction and a jury-elimination finale twist.
Big Brother Naija
Big Brother Naija (BBNaija), formerly Big Brother Nigeria, is Nigeria's version of the Big Brother reality franchise: housemates live in a filmed, isolated house and are evicted by public vote. Debuting 2006, revived 2017 on Africa Magic, hosted by Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, with Season 11's ₦160 million prize and winner Temi Nkem.
Big Brother Naija season 11
Big Brother Naija season 11, tagged Show Ya Sef, is the 2026 eleventh edition of Nigeria's Big Brother reality show: 24 housemates, ₦160 million prize, hosted by Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, won by Temi Nkem on 4 October 2026.
Big Brother: Over the Top
Big Brother: Over the Top was a 2016 online-only Big Brother season on CBS All Access (now Paramount+), 65 days, 13 houseguests, audience voting, winner Morgan, $250,000 prize, no jury, hosted by Julie Chen.
Big Brother: Reindeer Games
Big Brother: Reindeer Games is CBS's six-episode holiday special (December 11–21, 2023) with nine returning houseguests in elimination competitions; Nicole Franzel won the $100,000 prize.
Big Brother: Unlocked
Big Brother: Unlocked is a CBS bi-weekly companion series to the US Big Brother, hosted by winners Taylor Hale and Derrick Levasseur, premiering July 25, 2025 on CBS and Paramount+ with unseen footage, interviews, and guest panelists.
Big Brovaz
Big Brovaz: South London hip hop/R&B sextet (Cherise, Dion, Nadia, Flawless, J-Rock, Randy) produced by Skillz and Fingaz; "Nu Flow" hit UK No. 3 in 2002 and the group won 2003 MOBO Best Newcomer.
Big Brown Steam Electric Station
Big Brown Steam Electric Station was a two-unit, lignite-fired power plant near Fairfield, Texas, operated by Luminant; the first large lignite station in Texas when it opened in 1971, it was retired in 2018.
Big Bud 747
Big Bud 747 (16V-747): one-of-a-kind 1977 articulated 4WD farm tractor built by Ron Harmon's Northern Manufacturing in Havre, Montana, for the Rossi Brothers. Detroit Diesel 16V92T V16, 760 hp originally, 1,100 hp now; only one built, world's largest farm tractor.
Big Business
Big Business is a 1988 Touchstone comedy directed by Jim Abrahams, starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin each in dual roles as twins swapped at birth between a wealthy New York family and a rural West Virginia one, who collide at the Plaza Hotel over a corporate sale.
Big Cajun II Power Plant
Big Cajun II Power Plant, also written Big Cajun 2, is a three-unit generating station in New Roads, Louisiana, burning Powder River Basin coal and natural gas since 1981.
Big cat
Big cat: informal term for large felids, chiefly the five Panthera species (tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, snow leopard); Pantherinae diverged from Felinae about 10.8 million years ago; roaring tied to hyoid anatomy; tigers endangered with about 5,700 left.
Big Cat Rescue
Big Cat Rescue, founded 1992 by Carole Baskin and Don Lewis in Tampa, Florida, was a nonprofit exotic cat sanctuary that rescued over 230 cats, championed the Big Cat Public Safety Act, and relocated its last cats to Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in 2023 before selling its 67-acre grounds.
Big Chute Marine Railway
The Big Chute Marine Railway is a boat lift on the Trent-Severn Waterway near Coldwater, Ontario, carrying vessels out of the water over a granite ridge.
Big City Greens
Big City Greens is an animated Disney Channel comedy series, premiering in 2018, about 10-year-old Cricket Green, whose family moves from the country to the big city.
Big City Greens season 5
Fifth season of the Disney Channel animated series Big City Greens, renewed in 2024 and premiered August 21, 2026, with Anna O'Brian as new executive producer and guest stars including Stephen King and Luke Combs.
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation, 2024 Disney Channel/Disney+ animated musical film, the franchise's first feature, following Cricket Green's tricked family space vacation that endangers Big City.
Big Country
Big Country: Scottish rock band formed in Dunfermline in 1981 by ex-Skids guitarist Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson, famed for bagpipe-like twin guitars and the 1983 platinum album The Crossing with In a Big Country; renamed Big Country Redux in 2026.
Big Crunch
The Big Crunch is a hypothetical end of the universe in which cosmic expansion stops and reverses, and all matter collapses back into a hot, dense final state.
Big Daddy (1999 film)
Big Daddy is a 1999 American comedy directed by Dennis Dugan, starring Adam Sandler as a lazy law school graduate who adopts a five-year-old boy to impress his girlfriend.
Big Daddy (Notorious B1 song)
"Big Daddy" (1993) is a single by Notorious B1, a Mississippi rapper on Dragon Productions' Mississippi Doug$ Boyz album, sampling Mtume's "Juicy Fruit"; it is known for his unresolved claim that Biggie's "Juicy" and name were taken from him.
Big Daddy Kane
Big Daddy Kane (Antonio Hardy, born 1968, Brooklyn) is an American rapper and Juice Crew member, a Golden Age hip-hop icon known for "Ain't No Half-Steppin'", the Gold albums Long Live the Kane (1988) and It's a Big Daddy Thing (1989), and a 1991 Grammy for "Back on the Block".
Big data
Big data describes datasets, defined by volume, velocity, variety, and variability, that overwhelm traditional approaches and require scalable architectures, as defined by NIST and processed with tools like MapReduce and Hadoop.