CBS: 'Big Brother 11' in the works

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- The reality show "Big Brother" will be back for an 11th edition, CBS announced Monday.

The 10th season of the competition series wrapped up last week with Dan Gheesling, a 25-year-old Catholic school teacher from Dearborn, Mich., winning $500,000.

Gheesling competed for the top prize against a dozen other contestants, who were eliminated over the course of 71 days of isolation from the rest of the world and constant surveillance in the "Big Brother" house.

The 10th edition of the show averaged nearly 7 million viewers this summer, the network said.

The new season is to begin in the summer of 2009.