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Big Brother Africa will be back for a fifth season from Sunday, 18 July on DStv 198 for 91 days, and I can tell you that it will consist out of an all-star cast composed out of contestants from the previous four Big Brother Africa seasons.
M-Net has just announced that the reality show will be back for a fifth season - something I've known for about 3 weeks now since some production crew at Sasani Studios blabbed that they're working on another new Big Brother Africa. What M-Net is not yet saying, is that the contestants in this new season will be those eye-popping contestants out of the previous four seasons who had viewers glued.
''With the volume of interaction Big Brother Africa received from fans, it was clear that Big Brother Africa 5 was definitely on the cards,'' says Biola Alabi, M-Net Africa managing director. ''We've been developing what we believe will be thrilling new format changes.'' Channel 198 will be available to both DStv Premium as well as DStv Compact subscribers.
M-Net is coy about the contestants, only saying they're now ''head-hunting contestants from a database of previous entries submitted for the show''. I can tell you that they're actually planning on bringing back the best contestants from the previous four Big Brother Africa seasons, as production crew told me two weeks ago to make for an explosive new season. The Nigerian I.K. Osakioduwa will be back as the presenter of Big Brother Africa 5 and according to M-Net viewers will this time also be able to choose between two parallel streams of video/audio coming out of the house.
