Big Brother (Serbian TV series)

During the regular airing of each season, a daily highlights show is broadcast. The highlights show is simply referred to as Veliki Brat. From 2006 to 2011, the highlights shows' runtime was 45 minutes, while the later seasons' runtime was 75 minutes. Once a week there is a live eviction show, which is filmed in front of a live audience and is broadcast live. The eviction show incorporates the highlights shows along with eviction and interview of the housemate the public has voted to leave the house.

The eye logo for season one was a reused version of the eye from Big Brother UK 6. For other seasons the same eye logo was used, but in different colours, and for the celebrity editions, a star is inserted where the eye pupil should be.

The opening titles are also taken from the Big Brother UK 6, but with a different theme tune over the titles. The theme tune is written by Marko Milicević, then credited as Marko Hollywood.

A modified version of the Big Brother UK 11 titles and logo have been used for the 2011 Serbian season.

The house is located in Belgrade, in the urban neighborhood of Košutnjak. The house itself has not been remodeled since it was built in 2006, but the interior is redesigned for every season. Originally, it consisted of two bedrooms, one living room, a kitchen and a dining room, a diary room, a bathroom, a storage room, a garden and extra rooms which are sometimes used as task rooms or secret rooms for new housemates. For the third season, the wall between male and female bedroom was knocked down, so there was only one big bedroom. During the same season another room was added, the relaxation room (also known as the "make out" room).

The diary room is actually called "ispovedaonica", which is Serbian for confessional. The main difference between the diary room interviews in Veliki Brat and other Big Brother season (including the UK edition) is in Big Brother's "voice". Unlike most of the diary room interviews, in which the voices of the producers can be heard, in Veliki Brat the producers' voices are processed, giving the illusion that Big Brother always speaks in the same robotic way.

Veliki Brat very much follows the way Big Brother UK is produced. For example, when a housemate is talking about another housemate in the Diary Room, the camera will cut to a clip of the housemate who is being talked about while one can still hear the speech of the housemate in the diary room.

Between clips of the past 24-hour highlights, quick bumpers show events related to the title sequence.

When introducing a new day, the narrator will say the day number, time and if there has been any previous matters that relate to the episode. The narrator, throughout the episode, will say the time and what certain housemates are doing. The only difference between the UK and Serbian versions in this aspect is that the UK narrator, Marcus Bentley, is male and the Serbian narrator is female. When the time and day are shown, it is shown on the same background as the UK version, but in different colours depending on the series.

In early January 2013, Croatian broadcaster RTL announced that they would be airing a fifth season of the show, and that producers from Emotion, the production company that owns the licence for the Serbian franchise of the show, would also be involved, therefore making it a joint venture much like the last broadcast season.[1] Producers from Emotion said that they were interested in having the auditions in Slovenia as well as the other previous locations,[2] which would set the number of participating countries to a new high of 6, making it the first TV series to include all of the former Yugoslav countries. It is expected to follow the new format of Big Brother UK.

After a 2-year hiatus, the fifth season of Veliki Brat premiered on 5 September 2015.