Big Brother (Greek season 6)
Big Brother Greece 6 was the sixth season of the Greek reality television series "Big Brother". The show returned after a nine-year hiatus and began airing on 29 August 2020 on Skai TV and ended after 113 days on 18 December 2020, nineteen years after the first season aired. It was the first season of "Big Brother" to air on Skai TV. The show also simulcast live in Cyprus on Sigma TV like in the last season. This season was originally scheduled to start on 15 March 2020. But was postponed until further notice  by Skai TV due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Greece. Harry Varthakouris presented the show. Andreas Mikroutsikos was the opinionist. The winner received €100,000. Anna-Maria Psycharaki was announced as the winner of the season, with Sofia Danezi as the runner-up. Production. In October 2019, it was announced by Endemol Shine Group that Skai TV bought the rights to air the show in 2020. After an open call for participants, a record 10,000 submissions were received by Skai TV. Premiere postponed. Season 6 of "Big Brother Greece" was scheduled to begin airing on 15 March 2020 , however, due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Greece, on the day of the scheduled premiere day, Skai TV announced that they put housemates and employees' safety and health at the top priority, therefore temporarily postpone the premiere of the show until further notice. Live show. In February 2020, Harry Varthakouris was announced as the host for the live shows. Andreas Mikroutsikos took part in the live shows as an opinionist. In each live show, there is a psychologist as the second opinionist. In the premiere show and the first live eviction show, the opinionist was Dimitra Zafira. Since  the second live eviction show, the opinionist was Elpida Georgakopoulou. There were one or two celebrities as the opinionist in live eviction shows. In the fifth live show, it was Grigoris Gountaras, in the sixth live show it was Giorgos Tsalikis. In the eleventh live show, they were Giorgos Papadopoulos and Natali Kakava. In the twelfth live show, they were Margie Lazarou and Vasilis Grigoropoulos. In the thirteenth live show, they were Natali Kakava and Nikos Georgiadis. Broadcasting. The premiere show aired on Saturday 29 August 2020, but it was pre-recorded a day prior. The highlights shows were broadcast  from Mondays to Thursdays from 11:00 pm to 01:00 am. The live eviction shows were broadcast on Fridays at 09:00 pm to 01:00 am. Live streaming. Viewers can watch 23 hours a day live from the "Big Brother" house, on the official website "skaitv.gr". The live streaming started after the end of the second episode on Monday 31 August. On Monday 7 September 2020, Skai TV permanently stopped the live streaming, due to the unacceptable disrespectful sexist comments about rape from housemate Antonis Alexandridis, which also caused huge controversy in the outside world. After one week, on 14 September the  live streaming returned on YouTube, but after 3 weeks Skai TV reclosed the live streaming. House. The house was located in Koropi, Attica. It's a state-of-the-art space of 700 ㎡ with a 12-meter pool. In the house, there are 56 cameras and 50 microphones installed. To make it, 20 containers with specialized technical equipment arrived from the Netherlands and worked nightly for two months with more than 400 people, 25 different garages. Format. Weekly task. Every week "Big Brother" put to the housemates in tasks to earn money to buy food for themselves. The housemates  are doing tasks daily and if they won, they would earn 100€. If they lost, they won nothing. House Captain. Every week, a House Captain would be chosen. The Captain is given luxuries, such as the "Captain Room", it's a personal bedroom for their own. Also, the house captain is immuned for a week. Power of Veto. The housemates are selected to compete in the Power of Veto competition. The winner of the Veto competition wins the right to either revoke the nomination of one of the nominated Housemates or leave them as is. Hot seat. Every week in  the live shows, a housemate sits in the hot seat, where this is in a room. Andreas Mikroutsikos and the viewers from social media are asking the housemate some questions. Blue Room. Since week 5, in the live eviction shows, a special guest goes in the house. This can be someone from the family of the housemate or in the room can go Andreas Mikroutsikos, where he speaks with the housemates for what is going on in the house. Twin twist. This season of "Big Brother Greece" introduced a twin twist like in the fifth and seventeenth season of the  American version. The twist was that a set of twins were switching spots in the house, intending to make it to the first week. Christos Varouxis' twin brother, Panagiotis Varouxis enter the house in secret at the end of the premiere. The twins, Christos V. and Panagiotis, both played as Christos V. and would switch places at various times in the Captain room. Their secret mission is that they must make the other housemates thinking that they are one person. After one week, the twist was revealed to the other housemates and then the twins played together as a single  Housemate. Since Week 5, "Big Brother" allowed them to play individually in the game. Housemates. On the first day, eighteen housemates entered the house. After the first week, two new housemates entered the house. On week 3, a new housemate entered the house. Ratings. Official ratings are taken from AGB Hellas.