It's decided - I'm going to actually give Big Brother (C4, 9pm) a chance.
Ever since it launched back in 1923 (that's certainly how long it feels, even if my numbers are slightly out) I've never really got into it until, perhaps three weeks before the end.
I always found there were too many personalities vying for attention, so I left it to the rest of the nation to bin off the freakiest/dullest off the show.
But by last summer, I'd just given up altogether because what Channel Four described as a 'social experiment' had just become a freak show, the contestants chosen purely to cause conflict and/or have sex.
Hopefully, this year, stung by the nasty behaviour which went on in the unacceptable Celebrity version of the show earlier this year (some good did come out of the show - it killed Jade Goody's career) this year's version will return a bit more closely to its original roots.
Certainly, the rumours about who is going in this year seem a bit more subdued: Is it all women? Is there a member of the WI going in? How about the oldest contestant yet? Or the cousin of a Manchester United player?
All of which sounds pretty reasonable. Who knows, perhaps the pressures Channel 4 is facing to justify the existance of Big Brother, not to mention the issues around next week's Diana documentary, could actually create something vaguely watchable. Especially if someone has turn Davina McCall's volume down.
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