The Bus is a 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...

 show created by Endemol

Endemol

Endemol is an international television production and distribution company based in the Netherlands, with subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Poland,...

, in which a group of people live together in a large and luxury bus, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras.

Each series lasts for around three months. The contestants try to win a cash prize by avoiding periodic evictions from the bus. The first The Bus broadcast was in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 in 2000 on the SBS 6 TV channel.

The Bus around the world

Country	Local Title	Network	Winners	Main Presenters
Benelux Benelux The Benelux is an economic union in Western Europe comprising three neighbouring countries, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. These countries are located in northwestern Europe between France and Germany...	De Bus	VT4 VT4 VT4 is a Flemish commercial television channel. It is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.The channel began broadcasting on 1 February 1995. The channel initially had no Belgian broadcasting license and was transmitted via London . The channel now broadcasts legally from Zaventem in Belgium...   SBS 6	Season 1, 2000:   Hans	Inge Moerenhout   Ton van Royen
	Busão do Brasil Busão do Brasil Busão do Brasil was a Brazilian reality television show, which premiered July 30, 2010 with the season finale airing October 19, 2010 on the Band television network....	Band Rede Bandeirantes Rede Bandeirantes , officially nicknamed Band or Band Network, is a television network from Brazil, based in São Paulo. Part of the Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação , it aired for the first time in 1967...	Season 1, 2010 Busão do Brasil Busão do Brasil was a Brazilian reality television show, which premiered July 30, 2010 with the season finale airing October 19, 2010 on the Band television network.... : Mário Remo	Edgard Piccoli (Season 1)
	De Bus	SBS 6	Season 1, 2000: Antonette Sterrenburg	Sylvana Simons (Season 1)
	El Bus	Antena 3 Antena 3 (Spain) Antena 3 is a Spanish terrestrial television channel owned by Antena 3 de Televisión. Some of the more popular programmes broadcast by Antena 3 include Aquí no hay quien viva, El Barco, Los Protegidos, Los Simpson and El Internado....	Season 1, 2000: Sonia Oliván	Inés Ballester (Season 1)