Big Brother (Romanian TV series)

Prima TV acquired the format of Big Brother and announced on 2 December 2002 that it will be launched in the early months of 2003.

[12] A team of eleven people was sent to Budapest for the Hungarian version of Big Brother, for four months to learn how the show will work.

'Big Brother – Revenge') aired on Prima TV, which consisted of several housemates discussing for half an hour what happened during their time in the house and what they plan to do after the show finished.

[46][4][47] News outlets believed that pre-recorded material was used for the first season rather than live recordings; their affirmations would be later confirmed by the show's spokesperson.

The latter claimed that pre-recorded material was indeed used as it was "impossible to broadcast it live due to the bad weather at the time.

To make things worse, the season's grand finale was eclipsed by the screening of the Indian film Yaadon Ki Baaraat on Antena 1.

Their actions were met with backlash by the Orthodox Church, the National Audiovisual Council and several political figures, which criticized the show for "promoting prostitution."

[4] Following the sanctions imposed by the National Audiovisual Council, the breaching of autochthonous regulations and fluctuating ratings, Prima TV "did not see why they should keep a show like this with high production costs."

[51][52] In 2014, Prima TV had announced that they acquired the format of Utopia, which worked similarly the way Big Brother did and that it would air during the fall of that year.