CBS’ first celebrity edition of "Big Brother" will premiere Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 8/7c, airing multiple episodes per week as an “alternative” of sorts to the Winter Olympics coverage.



The celebrity cast will include:

"The Apprentice" and Former White House aide Omarosa
"Real Housewife" Brandi Glanville
Former "Cosby" Kid Keisha Knight Pulliam
Tony-winner Marisa Jaret Winokur
MMA Star Chuck Liddell
Former NBA Star Metta World Peace (aka Ron Artest)
Miss Universe 2015 Ariadna Gutiérrez
Actress and Pro-Poker Player Shannon Elizabeth
E!’s Ross Matthews
Actor/Singer James Maslow (Big Time Rush)

http://tvline.com/2018/01/28/big-brother-celebrity-edition-cast-list-omarosa/

Yawn... have no interest in watching this whatsoever... not a very interesting cast...

"Celebrity Big Brother" Opens Strong
by Matt Webb Mitovich
February 8, 2018


The first-ever celebrity edition of CBS’ "Big Brother" premiered to 7.3 million total viewers and a 1.8 rating, leading Wednesday night in both measures.

The premiere was up 24 percent and a tenth from the typically summertime franchise’s most recent opener, delivering its largest premiere audience since July 2011.

http://tvline.com/2018/02/08/celebrity-big-brother-ratings-premiere-cbs-omarosa/

Omarosa on Celebrity Big Brother is proof that reality TV has become “a fourth branch of government” (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/arts/television/omarosa-manigault-newman-celebrity-big-brother-trump.html)

Omarosa's tearful criticism of President Trump (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bvu4_L-xmM&t=15s) while chatting with Ross “The Intern” Mathews on Celebrity Big Brother was "a Frost/Nixon interview for the Trump era,” says James Poniewozik, “when politics and reality TV have become inseparable and indistinguishable. Television, from Fox and Friends in the morning to Big Brother at night, is now a fourth branch of government.” Poniewozik also points out that there is a “kind of literary symmetry” to Omarosa, the most “Trumpian” competitor, going after her former boss with “the very tools he taught her to use.” “She recognized that the show was a contest not of business acumen but of getting and leveraging attention,” he says. “She created conflict in the belief that chaos yields opportunity. She denied mistakes even when she’d made them on camera. She didn’t win the season, but she won the greater prize of fame.”

ALSO:

Omarosa and Keshia Knight Pulliam discuss their respective loyalties to Trump and Bill Cosby (http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/omarosa-keshia-knight-pulliam-trump-cosby-celebrity-big-brother-1202693277/)
Don’t take Omarosa’s Trump remorse at face value: She’s a master of the reality TV game (https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/2/9/16995340/omarosa-celebrity-big-brother-trump-yikes)
Don Lemon broke into a fit of laughter when a guest suggested they talk about Omarosa since “it’s Black History Month” (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/373115-don-lemon-breaks-into-fit-of-laughter-over-omarosa-on-big)