With online auditions still underway until the end of the month.
At the ABS-CBN Annual Stockholders’ Meeting on Wednesday, August 19, Chief Operating Officer Cory Vidanes disclosed more information regarding the recently-announced new season of the reality show Pinoy Big Brother.
“We are launching a new PBB season this year in partnership with GMA,” the executive affirmed during the meeting.
However, this season, which has been given the official title of Pinoy Big Brother: Collab 3.0, will also make history as the upcoming set of contestants will become the first to experience living together inside a new house where the show will be produced moving forward.
This, as the former site right in front of the ELJ Communications Center in Quezon City was closed down for good last April after hosting its last-ever set of contestants during the Celebrity Collab 2.0 season that ended its run last February.
The former house sat on a land that was previously leased by ABS-CBN and became the site where all of the past 18 editions of the hit franchise were produced in the past two decades.
Furthermore, it was also briefly used for another format, Pinoy Dream Academy, as well as a training camp for Star Hunt trainees, which include P-pop groups BINI and BGYO.
“We will be moving to a new PBB house which will be more cost efficient for us,” Vidantes noted, without revealing the location of thebnew PBB house.
Collab 3.0 will be a regular season, with online auditions already open to Filipinos worldwide aged 18 to 35 years old.
Those looking to join the reality show were asked to upload a 1 minute video introducing themselves through a dedicated website until August 31 at 11:59 pm (Philippine time).
Pinoy Big Brother was launched in 2005 amidst the reality and game show frenzy that swept the nation, with Nene Tamayo hailed as its first winner.
After its first season, which became a cultural phenomenon, the program went on to have various editions exclusive to a particular group such as Celebrity and Teens.
In the past decade, however, these editions have since been fused into one — a practice that began with All In in 2014, followed by 737 in 2015, Lucky 7 in 2016, and Kumunity in 2021.
In early 2025, ABS-CBN and GMA inked a partnership deal that paved the way for the groindbreaking Celebrity Collab Edition, which featured cast members from both Star Magic and Sparkle, the respective talent management groups of both networks.
That was quickly followed up with Celebrity Collab Edition 2.0 in October that same year, which saw teen stars from both agencies live under one roof throughout the season.
