The French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 version of the international reality television

Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 format Big Brother

Big Brother (TV series)

Big Brother is a television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash...

has broadcast in the country since 2001. Unlike most other territories, which use the name Big Brother (or a local equivalent) for their adaptations of the show, France used the name Loft Story for the initial two series of the format, broadcast on M6 in 2001-02, and then Secret Story for a revived version of the format, broadcast on TF1

TF1

TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network...

 since 2007. The Loft Story/Secret Story format is also used in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 (which used Loft Story from 2003 to 2009, Big Brother in 2010 and Secret Story from 2011). In addition, the Secret Story format first used in France has been introduced in the Netherlands (from 2011, five years after the last Big Brother series in the territory) and Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 (from 2010, seven years after Big Brother ceased in the country).

Each season of France's Loft Story/Secret Story has its own page on Wikipedia

Wikipedia

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, as listed below, detailing each series' housemates, events and results.