Overview
- The series begins its regular Wednesday 9/8c slot on Fox, with next-day streaming on Hulu.
- Fourteen contestants live together in a remote Vancouver mansion as producers promise an authentic in-house experience.
- After a primary challenge that awards power and a preview, housemates select who enters the elimination "End Game."
- Challenges mix callbacks with new phobia-driven stunts, including the shrink-wrap "Sealed Fates" and a teased "Pain Auction."
- The season offers a $200,000 grand prize, and early criticism highlights a harsher tone, prize economics, and welfare concerns.