For over twenty years, Pinoy Big Brother has been a home for its housemates, having premiered the first season of the reality show back on August 21, 2005.
However, things have changed over time, especially when ABS-CBN ended its free-to-air operations on May 5, 2020, like online auditions via Kumu for PBB Connect (2020-2021) and PBB Kumunity Season 10 (2021-2022) amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the demolition of the other half of the PBB House in 2023 (caused by non-renewal of the property lease agreement by ABS-CBN), the growing popularity of PBB during the non-renewal of the broadcast license, through PBB Gen 11, that made a massive online viewership during the Big Night on October 26, 2024, of over 2.26 million peak concurrent viewers and the spike of continous trends involving its housemates after which, including Gen 11 Big Winner Fyang Smith, and two PBB Collab editions that made a partnership between the franchise holder, ABS-CBN, and the collaborator, GMA Network.
And after 20 years and 7 months of providing Pinoy Big Brother within the old house that spanned 19 seasons, Big Brother has decided to move into a new home, as announced recently this afternoon on March 24, 2026, and in an interview on TV Patrol with MJ Felipe, Laurenti Dyogi, head of Star Magic, stated that earlier, the PBB team had considered the possibility of relocating from their old house in Quezon City.
However, due to the two Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Collab Editions that premiered on GMA in 2025 alone, they decided to postpone the move and continue keeping it for these seasons. PBB Celebrity Collab Edition 1.0 premiered on March 9, 2025, as the first Pinoy Big Brother season airing on GMA Network, naming Brent Manalo and Mika Salamanca as the Big Winner Duos of that edition, on July 5, 2025.
Following the end of PBB Collab 2.0 on February 28, 2026, where Lella Ford and Caprice Cayetano were declared as the Big Winners of the final season of PBB inside the 2005 house, he added that the move out from the old house to a soon-to-be-built one, for the future PBB edition.
ABS-CBN will remain the sole license holder for Big Brother in the Philippines, based on the reality show of the same name, which originated from the Netherlands and is produced under Banijay Entertainment.
The DRPS PHCA has also seen several social media posts and Facebook/Instagram stories about the PBB house relocation, including a TikTok video where PBB Gen 11 ex-housemate and actor Binsoy Namoca reunited with co-ex-housemates, Rain Celmar, Kai Montinola, Jasmine Dudley-Scales, and Dylan Yturralde, in a PBB Collab 2.0-styled house.
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