The rumor started with Reality Blurred reporting that Big Brother 19 would air this fall, exclusively on CBS’s streaming service, CBS All Access.
On one hand, I can see a streaming-only Big Brother season as an opportunity on CBS’s part to keep Big Brother live feed subscribers from dropping CBS All Access once Season 18 finishes up.
The live feeds are included with a subscription to the service, and if ever there’s a way to hold Big Brother fans’ subscriptions, it’s by offering us more Big Brother.
The format of the episodes and the extras that could be offered with a streaming-only season are much more flexible, assuming CBS and the Big Brother producers wanted to take advantage of it.