Big Brother is back!

The Word Cup ends on July 11, thus paving the way for the fifth season live screening to start for 91 days on DStv Channel 198 for DStv Premium and Compact subscribers. Contestants will once again be drawn from 14 countries - Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Big Brother Africa season five will be produced by Endemol and filmed on location in Johannesburg. This year, the house will feature 53 cameras and 100 microphones ensuring that, as always, Big Brother is watching!

M-Net Africa Managing Director Biola Alabi said that Big Brother fans in over 40 countries across the continent are going to get a show that is more edgy, more tactically challenging and more intensely strategic than ever before.