Big Brother (Greek TV series) season 6 explained

Season Number:	6
Bgcolour:	00008B
Module1:	Presenter: Harry Varthakouris Num Days: 113 Num Housemates: 21 Winner: Anna-Maria Psycharaki Runner Up: Sofia Danezi
Num Episodes:	81
Network:	Skai TV

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

This season was originally scheduled to start on 15 March 2020.^[3] But was postponed until further notice by Skai TV due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Greece.^[4]

Harry Varthakouris presented the show. Andreas Mikroutsikos was the opinionist. The winner received €100,000.^[5]

Anna-Maria Psycharaki was announced as the winner of the season, with Sofia Danezi as the runner-up.^[6]

Production

In October 2019, it was announced by Endemol Shine Group that Skai TV bought the rights to air the show in 2020.^[7] 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.^[8] 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,^[9] in the sixth live show it was Giorgos Tsalikis.^[10] 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.^[11] 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 m² 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.^{[12] [13]}

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.^[14]

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.

Live Show	Housemate(s)
1	Sofia
2	Ramona & Rania
3	Christina
	Themis
4	Vladimiros
5	Themis
6	Christos M.

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.

Live Show	Housemate(s)	Guest
5	Afroditi	Her Mother
6	Afroditi & Sofia	Mikroutsikos
7	Raisa	Her Mother
	Anna-Maria & Sofia	Mikroutsikos
8	Anna-Maria & Raisa
9	Anna-Maria	Her Mother
	Christos V. & Panagiotis	Mikroutsikos
10	Christos M.
	Anna-Maria & Ramona
	Dimitris K.	His Mother
11	Dimitris P.	Mikroutsikos
12	Zak
	Sofia	Two Friends

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.^[15] 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.

Name	Age on entry	Hometown	Occupation	Day entered	Day exited	Status
Anna-Maria Psycharaki	36	Crete	Lawyer	1	113
Sofia Danezi	31	Thessaloniki	Singer	1	113
Dimitris Pyrgidis	36	Thessaloniki	Businessman	1	113
Zak loannidis	30	Athens	Personal trainer	1	113
Grigoris Tsekouras	31	Mykonos	Civil engineer	1	113
Themis Kanellos	18	Piraeus	YouTuber	1	106
Christos Varouxis	22	Pyrgos, Elis	Hotel worker	1	106
Dimitris Kechagias	28	Athens	Boat subletting company	1	99
Ramona Morosanou	37	Romania	Beauty artist and photo model	1	92
Raisa Konti	23	Albania	Waitress	1	85
Christos Makridis	46	Skydra	Deputy mayor	1	78
Panagiotis Varouxis	22	Pyrgos, Elis	Tourism Business	8	64
Christina Orfanidou	35	Thessaloniki	Professional poker player	1	57
Afroditi Gerokonstanti	31	South Africa	Plus-sized model	1	50
Vladimiros Nikola	22	Cyprus	Personal trainer and model	8	43
Rania Karagianni	28	Veria	Farmer	1	36
Nikos Zekos	26	Kilkis	Breeder	15	29
Nikolas Papapavlou	37	Pangrati	Gay activist	1	22
Vasiliki Hanou	53	Athens	Household	8	15
Antonis Alexandridis	31	Crete	Bartender	1	10
Jay Prodan	24	Bangladesh	Restaurant owner	1	8

Nominations table

Twin twist and 2-in-1 housemate, their nominations counted as one. (Week 2 - 4)

		Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12	Week 13	Week 14	Week 15	Week 16 Final		Nominations received
		Sofia	Sofia Afroditi	Sofia	Afroditi Sofia	Afroditi Christina	Themis	Zak Dimitris K.	Raisa Christina	Banned	Christos M. Ramona	Ramona Ramona	Ramona Zak	Ramona Zak	Dimitris K. Zak	No Nominations			44
Sofia		Raisa	Rania	Ramona	Nikos Rania	Rania Ramona	Ramona	Ramona Christos V.	Ramona Panagiotis	Christos V. Panagiotis	Ramona Christos V.	Ramona Ramona	Ramona Grigoris	Dimitris P. Christos V.	Themis Themis	No Nominations			41
Dimitris P.		Nikolas	Vasiliki Afroditi	Nikolas Sofia	Afroditi	Vladimiros Grigoris	Vladimiros	Sofia Dimitris K.	Zak	Themis Sofia	Anna-Maria Grigoris	Sofia	Sofia Dimitris K.	Dimitris K. Anna-Maria	Grigoris Grigoris	No Nominations			8
Zak		Raisa	Rania	Rania		Christos M. Rania	Christos M.	Anna-Maria Christina	Anna-Maria	Christos V. Panagiotis	Anna-Maria Ramona		Anna-Maria Ramona	Ramona Anna-Maria	Sofia Anna-Maria	Finalist			13
Grigoris			Rania	Rania Sofia	Rania	Christos M. Rania	Christos M.	Christina Panagiotis	Panagiotis	Christos V. Panagiotis	Ramona Christos V.	Ramona Ramona	Ramona Raisa	Ramona Dimitris P.	Dimitris P. Dimitris P.	Finalist			15
Themis		Antonis	Rania	Nikos	Nikos Rania	Rania Christos M.	Christos M.	Anna-Maria Christos V.	Christos V. Panagiotis	Panagiotis Christos V.	Anna-Maria Christos V.	Christos M.	Anna-Maria Ramona	Anna-Maria Christos V.	Sofia Dimitris P.	No Nominations	Evicted (Day 106)		5
		Jay	Vasiliki	Sofia	Sofia Sofia	Sofia Raisa	Raisa	Sofia Afroditi	Raisa Christina	Sofia Dimitris K.	Grigoris Zak	Sofia Sofia	Sofia Dimitris K.	Dimitris K. Anna-Maria	Sofia Grigoris	No Nominations	Evicted (Day 106)		23
		Raisa		Anna-Maria		Christos M. Rania	Christos M.	Christos M. Anna-Maria		Christos V. Panagiotis	Anna-Maria		Ramona Raisa	Christos V. Dimitris P.	Anna-Maria Anna-Maria	Evicted (Day 99)			19
Ramona		Jay	Christina	Christina Sofia	Sofia Christina	Sofia Grigoris	Raisa	Sofia Dimitris K.	Raisa Christina	Sofia Zak	Anna-Maria Grigoris	Sofia	Sofia Anna-Maria	Anna-Maria Grigoris	Evicted (Day 92)				35
Raisa		Sofia Ramona	Sofia Zak	Sofia	Nikos Rania	Ramona Christos V.	Ramona	Ramona Christos V.	Ramona Christos V.	Panagiotis Christos V.	Anna-Maria Dimitris P.	Zak	Anna-Maria Zak	Evicted (Day 85)					12
		Nikolas Afroditi	Vasiliki Afroditi	Sofia Nikolas	Sofia	Grigoris Vladimiros	Vladimiros	Afroditi Dimitris K.	Zak Dimitris K.	Dimitris K. Grigoris	Grigoris Zak	Grigoris	Evicted (Day 78)						47
	Panagiotis	Non- Housemate	Vasiliki	Sofia	Sofia Sofia	Rania Christos M.	Vladimiros	Sofia Afroditi	Raisa Christina	Sofia Dimitris K.	Evicted (Day 64)								11
Christina		Nikolas Jay	Vladimiros Zak	Nikos	Nikos Ramona	Ramona Rania	Ramona	Anna-Maria Ramona	Ramona Christos V.	Evicted (Day 57)									10
Afroditi			Rania	Rania	Rania Rania	Rania Christos M.	Christos M.	Anna-Maria Christos M.	Evicted (Day 50)										12
Vladimiros		Not in House	Ramona	Ramona	Nikos Rania	Rania Ramona	Christos M.	Evicted (Day 43)											7
Rania		Nikolas Jay	Grigoris Vasiliki	Nikolas Sofia	Afroditi Sofia	Grigoris Vladimiros	Evicted (Day 36)												25
Nikos		Not in House		Nikolas Sofia	Afroditi Sofia	Evicted (Day 29)													8
Nikolas		Dimitris P.		Nikos	Evicted (Day 22)														9
Vasiliki		Not in House	Rania	Evicted (Day 15)															4
Antonis		Themis Nikolas	Ejected (Day 10)																1
Jay		Sofia	Evicted (Day 8)																4
Notes		1, 2, 3	4, 5	5	5, 6	7, 8	9, 10	none		11	12, 13	14	none		15	16	17
House captain				Afroditi				Raisa	Sofia					Sofia		none
Challenge winner		Christina Rania	none				none									Grigoris Zak	none
Nominated (pre-veto)		Nikolas	Rania Vasiliki	Nikolas Sofia	Afroditi Nikos Rania Sofia	Christos M. Grigoris Ramona Rania	Afroditi Anna-Maria Christos M. Ramona Sofia Vladimiros	Sofia	Christina Raisa	Panagiotis Sofia	Grigoris Ramona	Ramona Sofia	Ramona Sofia	Christos V. Dimitris P. Ramona	Dimitris P. Grigoris Sofia	none
Veto winner		Sofia	Rania		Dimitris K.	Grigoris		Zak	Panagiotis	Zak	Zak			Sofia	Christos V.
Against public vote		Anna-Maria Jay	Anna-Maria Vasiliki	Dimitris K. Nikos Nikolas Rania	Afroditi Nikos Rania	Christos M. Ramona Rania	Afroditi Christos M. Ramona Sofia Vladimiros	Afroditi Ramona Sofia	Christina Panagiotis Raisa Ramona	Panagiotis Sofia	Ramona	Ramona	Dimitris K. Raisa Sofia Zak	Dimitris P. Ramona	Dimitris K. Grigoris Sofia	Dimitris P. Sofia Themis	Dimitris P. Grigoris Sofia Zak
Ejected		none	Antonis	none
Evicted											Eviction cancelled						Grigoris (out of 5)	Zak (out of 4)
																	(out of 3)	Sofia (out of 2)
																	Anna-Maria to win

Notes

• : Identical twins Christos V. and Panagiotis took turns playing as a single housemate during the first week for a secret mission. They secretly switched places between living inside the house and being in the Captain's Room. Both twins pretended to be Christos V.. On the first live eviction show on Day 8, the secret was revealed to the house and Panagiotis was allowed to live inside the house under his own identity.
• : Christina and Rania won the immunity challenge, therefore, were safe for the week.
• : Sofia received the veto for choosing the bed with the number 13.
• : On Day 10, Antonis was ejected from the house for making unacceptable disrespectful comments about rape.^[16]
• : The twin brothers Christos V. and Panagiotis nominated together.
• : Aphrodite and Nikos were the two housemates nominated for eviction. However, it was later revealed that there would be a third person to be nominated on Friday's live show. During the live show, the housemates had to vote for a third housemate to be nominated for eviction. The housemate that received the most nominations would be the third nominee. There was a tie between Rania and Sofia, so they were both nominated. Dimitris K., who had the power of Veto, was able to save one of the four nominees. He chose to save Sofia. In the end, Aphrodite, Nikos and Rania were nominated for eviction.^[17]
• : On Week 5, Big Brother split Christos V. and Panagiotis, who played as one housemate, from now on they both play alone as two individual housemates.
• : The housemates participated in a challenge where one of the two winners would get immunity and the other the Power of Veto. Dimitris K. and Grigoris won the challenge. Dimitris K. got the immunity and Grigoris got the Power of Veto.
• : Afroditi and Sofia were automatically nominated as a punishment for breaking the rules. They couldn't be saved by the Power of Veto.
• : Big Brother gave the power to the captain, Dimitris K., to nominate one of the housemates. He nominated Anna-Maria.
• : Anna-Maria was automatically nominated as a punishment for breaking the rules. She couldn't nominate, couldn't be saved by the Power of Veto and couldn't compete for the Veto. She also couldn't be the House Captain for next week.
• : Big Brother gave Dimitris K., the captain of the week, the power for one of his votes to count as a double vote. He gave the double vote to Christos V..
• : On Week 10, Big Brother decided that none of the housemates would be evicted.
• : During the 10th live show, the housemates voted the first housemate that they wanted to be against the public vote next week.
• : Dimitris K. was automatically nominated as a punishment for breaking the rules. He couldn't be saved from the Power of Veto and also wasn't able to compete for the Veto.
• : On Week 15, there was no Captain and Veto. All housemates played 6 games in two rounds. The two winners from each round would automatically make it to the finale, and the rest would be nominated for eviction automatically. Zak won the first round and Grigoris the second.
• : For the final week, the public voted for the winner.

Ratings

Official ratings are taken from AGB Hellas.^[18]

Week	First air date	Last air date	Timeslot (EET)	Share Household (in %)						Weekly average	Season average
				Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1			Saturday 09:00pm–01:00am	27.8					25.2	17.8
			Monday to Thursday 11:00pm–01:00am Friday 09:00pm–01:00am	25.4	24.3	23.7	22.5	27.5			rowspan="16"
2				23.7	23.0	21.0	24.7	19.1	22.3
3				17.6	19.8	18.0	17.2	15.3	17.6
4	21 September 2020	25 September 2020		16.0	14.9	13.9	16.0	15.0	15.2
5	28 September 2020	2 October 2020		15.3	18.2	14.5	16.2	14.5	15.7
6	5 October 2020	9 October 2020		17.9	19.0	16.8	18.6	13.8	17.2
7	12 October 2020	16 October 2020		17.1	21.1	18.0	18.2	18.0	18.5
8	19 October 2020	23 October 2020		14.5	17.2	18.6	20.4	17.5	17.6
9	26 October 2020	30 October 2020		20.3	18.5	21.5	20.6	16.0	19.4
10	2 November 2020	6 November 2020		17.8	18.5	18.2	19.7	15.7	18.0
11	9 November 2020	13 November 2020		17.3	16.6	19.7	20.9	17.4	18.4
12	16 November 2020	20 November 2020		16.5	12.4	17.8	16.6	13.8	15.4
13	23 November 2020	27 November 2020		16.0	14.6	17.4	17.7	16.9	16.5
14	30 November 2020	4 December 2020		13.2	15.9	20.3	17.6	15.7	16.5
15	7 December 2020	11 December 2020		17.3	15.0	16.1	15.4	16.2	16.0
16	14 December 2020	18 December 2020		15.6	12.7	15.0	15.2	20.4	15.8

External links

• Official website on skaitv.gr

Notes and References

1. Web site: BIG BROTHER: Πρεμιέρα, Σάββατο 29 Αυγούστου, στον ΣΚΑΪ. skai.gr. 28 August 2020. Greek.
2. Web site: Μάθαμε πότε κάνει πρεμιέρα στο ΣΙΓΜΑ το "Big Brother". ilovestyle.com. 9 March 2020. Greek.
3. Web site: Το BIG BROTHER κάνει πρεμιέρα 15/3 - Η ανακοίνωση και όλες οι λεπτομέρειες. tvnea.com. 6 March 2020. Greek.
4. Web site: Αναβολή πρεμιέρας "Big Brother": Προτεραιότητα η ασφάλεια παικτών και εργαζομένων. skai.gr. 15 March 2020. Greek.
5. Web site: Το Big Brother της νέας εποχής έρχεται στον ΣΚΑΪ. Πρεμιέρα Κυριακή 15 Μαρτίου. skai.gr. 6 March 2020. Greek.
6. Web site: Big Brother τελικός: Αυτή είναι η μεγάλη νικήτρια! (Photos-Videos). gossip-tv.gr. 19 December 2020. Greek.
7. Web site: Endemol Shine's Big Brother returns to Greece after a decade away. EndemolShineGroup. October 15, 2019.
8. Web site: Χάρης Βαρθακούρης: "Υπέγραψα χθες με τον ΣΚΑΪ για να παρουσιάσω το Big Brother" (video & pics). gossip-tv.gr. 19 February 2020.
9. Web site: Ο Γρηγόρης Γκουντάρας πάει στο "Big Brother" αλλά δεν... κατάλαβε πώς έγινε. newsbeast.gr. 2 October 2020.
10. Web site: Big Brother: Αυτός είναι ο καλεσμένος έκπληξη που θα δούμε στο αποψινό Live. fthis.gr. 9 October 2020.
11. Web site: Big Brother: Τι θα γίνει με το Live streaming; Ποια η απόφαση του ΣΚΑΪ;. gossip-tv.gr. 7 September 2020.
12. Web site: Το TLIFE μπήκε στο σπίτι του Big Brother λίγο πριν την πρεμιέρα! Αποκλειστικές εικόνες και βίντεο. TLife. 21 July 2020.
13. Web site: Το Big Brother έρχεται – Οι πρώτες εικόνες από το σπίτι του Μεγάλου Αδελφού. Zappit. 21 July 2020.
14. Web site: Big Brother: Η ανακοίνωση του Μεγάλου Αδερφού στη Σοφία και η έκπληξη!. gossip-tv.gr. 3 September 2020. Greek.
15. Web site: Big Brother: Η πρώτη μυστική αποστολή και ο παίκτης - έκπληξη (video). gossip-tv.gr. 31 August 2020. Greek.
16. Web site: Big Brother: Ο Κρητικός απολογήθηκε και εκδιώχθηκε από το σπίτι. gossip-tv.gr. 7 September 2020.
17. Web site: Big Brother: Η απόλυτη ανατροπή! Αυτός είναι ο τρίτος υποψήφιος (Pics-Vid). gossip-tv.gr. 25 September 2020.
18. Web site: Ημερήσιο τηλεβαρόμετρο - Top 10. 1 September 2020.