Dear newsletter subscribers,

Today is the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Big Brother, which I wrote about, and gathered 20 stories about.

While some Big Brother fans worked themselves into a frenzy last week, imagining that the cast was already sequestered and the show would start soon, the reality is that the show has only just started pre-production work on the house, and there's no clear idea when it might actually be able to safely start filming.

Ditto for Survivor; just last week, Jeff Probst said the show does not even have a plan yet for resuming production.