Big Brother Canada Is Coming Back in 2027

Big Brother Canada is coming back. Two years after Global pulled the plug, Bell Media has ordered a new season for CTV and Crave, filming in Montréal in Spring 2027 with a new host and a new production company. Thirty episodes. Everything about it is different except the name.

• Announced: 4 June 2026, at Bell Media’s upfronts in Toronto.
• When: production begins Spring 2027.
• Where to watch: CTV, streaming on Crave.
• Host: Andrea Bain. Arisa Cox is not returning.
• Filming in: Montréal, not Toronto.
• Length: thirty 60-minute episodes.
• Live feeds: not announced either way. More on that below.

What was announced

Bell Media announced the Big Brother Canada revival on the morning of 4 June 2026, during its upfronts in Toronto. It came as part of a wider deal with Banijay Rights that hands Bell the whole Big Brother franchise in Canada.

Three things were announced at once, and the second and third are as significant as the first.

• A new season of Big Brother Canada for CTV and Crave, produced by Entourage, filming in Montréal from Spring 2027.
• Big Brother US moves to CTV and Crave in Canada from Summer 2027. Canadian viewers will be watching the American season somewhere new.
• All twelve previous seasons of Big Brother Canada go onto Crave. The entire back catalogue, in one place, for the first time.

Bell’s reasoning was about where reality television actually performs now. Justin Stockman, the company’s VP of global content, pointed at competition formats doing well on streaming and holding up live on television at the same time — and at owning both CTV and Crave meaning they get both.

What is different this time

Almost everything. This is not Big Brother Canada picking up where it left off — it is the format restarting under new ownership with new people.

• New network. The show started on Slice in 2013, moved to Global in 2015, and now goes to CTV. Third network in three eras.
• New city. Twelve seasons were made in Toronto. Thirteen is being made in Montréal.
• New production company. Insight Productions made every previous season. Entourage takes over — the company behind the French-language Big Brother Célébrités and The Traitors Canada.
• New host. Andrea Bain replaces Arisa Cox, who hosted all twelve seasons and was an executive producer from 2021.
• New executive producers. Eric Young and Nathalie Brigitte Bustos, in place of the Insight team that ran it from the start.

Put that list together and something becomes obvious: nobody making this season has made this show before.

Entourage’s Big Brother experience is Big Brother Célébrités — the French-language Québec version, a celebrity format, made in Montréal. That is a different show with a different cast profile and a different audience, and it is the only Big Brother any of the new team has run. The host has never hosted it. The executive producers have never produced it. The city has never made it.

What actually carries over from twelve seasons is the name and the format licence.

The economics make sense. Célébrités is already built in Montréal, so there is a house, a crew and an infrastructure to share, and that is a reasonable way to revive a show that was cancelled partly on production costs. But sharing a setup with the French celebrity version is not a neutral decision about where to park the cameras. It shapes what the show is.

Worth watching as details come out: whether this is Big Brother Canada rebuilt, or Big Brother Célébrités in English with civilians in it. The house and the format will answer that long before the first eviction.

Who is Andrea Bain?

Andrea Bain has co-hosted CTV’s daytime panel show The Social since 2023. Before that she hosted The Goods on CBC, and a run of lifestyle programming for Slice and HGTV including Live Here Buy This and Three Takes. She has worked as an entertainment journalist for both Global News and CTV News, and published a book, Single Girl Problems, in 2018.

Her own reaction, posted the day it was announced: “I am beyond thrilled to announce that Big Brother Canada is returning to CTV in Spring 2027, and I’ll be your hostess with the mostess.”

She signed off with “Now excuse me while I scream into a pillow and happy dance around my condo. LET’S GO, CANADA!!!”, which is at least the right energy for the job.

Replacing Arisa Cox is a harder task than the CV suggests. Cox hosted every episode across twelve seasons and eventually produced the show as well. She was as much a part of Big Brother Canada’s identity as the eye.

The live feeds question

This is the one that matters, and the announcement said nothing about it.

Big Brother Canada had 24/7 live feeds for its first ten seasons. In February 2023, ahead of season 11, Global announced they were being replaced by Digital Dailies — curated, uncut footage published to the show’s website, chosen by producers rather than streamed live. Season 12 kept the same arrangement and the press release did not mention feeds at all.

Sixteen months after that second season without feeds, Corus cancelled the show.

We wrote this here the day the change was announced, in February 2023:

I could be wrong but I don’t see the show surviving without the feeds. How can it? We’ll finally find out if the feeds actually help the shows ratings or just gives production a headache.

We called them edited slop at the time and we are not taking it back.

The reason this matters more than a viewing preference is what the feeds actually do. They are what makes Big Brother a thing people follow daily instead of watch weekly. They are where the strategy lives, where the alliances are visible, and where every site, podcast and group chat covering the show gets its material. Take them away and the fandom around the show has nothing to do between episodes — and a show that people only think about three hours a week is a show with soft ratings and nervous sponsors.

There is reason for cautious optimism this time. The show is going to Crave, a streaming platform, rather than sitting on a broadcaster with a website bolted to it. Streaming a live feed is closer to what Crave already does than it ever was for Global. And Bell has just bought the American version too, which comes with feeds as standard.

But nothing has been said. Until it is, this is the open question hanging over the whole revival.

How it came back

Corus cancelled Big Brother Canada on 27 June 2024, after twelve seasons and 333 episodes, citing shifting audience trends, advertising conditions and production costs.

The campaign to bring it back started almost immediately. A fan named Jayda Bannister launched a petition within weeks of the first rumours, and the noise never entirely stopped across the two years that followed.

Whether a petition moves a media company is debatable. What is not debatable is that a format nobody wanted does not get picked up by a second broadcaster twenty-four months after being killed by the first. Something kept it visible enough to be worth buying.

Which is worth remembering now, given there is a second thing this audience wants and has not been given yet.

What we still do not know

• Whether there are live feeds. The only question that changes what this season is.
• A premiere date. “Spring 2027” and “production begins Spring 2027” are not the same thing, and the gap between them could be months.
• The cast. Casting details were promised at a later date and nothing has been released.
• The prize. Season 12 ran the biggest in the show’s history at over $200,000 including sponsor money. No word on whether that survives the move.
• Whether returning players are involved, or whether this is a clean reset with an all-new cast.
• What the format looks like under a production company that has only made the French-language version.

We covered Big Brother Canada from the first season on Slice through the feed years, and we stopped when there was nothing left to cover. If the feeds come back, so do we.