BBetter

This may seem farfetched.

BUT.

Big Brother is pretty good this year.

Obviously very few of them are actually likeable, but their relationships with eachother are quite interesting. Markus and Noirin's relationship has been prominent for ages now but is still strangely fascinating, and even the plainer housemates like Sophie (Dogface?) are becoming interesting to observe. Viewing figures may have nose-dived to below half what they normally are, but they are steadily improving again and that's probably because it's actually really interesting this year to watch fourteen oddballs get on with eachother. Kind of feels like a social experiment again, like it did in the old days.

Kudos also on the new eviction format. The celebrity guest who is almost always too Z-list to even appear on a Celebrity series seems pretty pointless, but the addition of a behavioural expert/psychologist to proceedings provides a variation on Davina's good-but-tiresome interview habits.

Of course this slight (SLIGHT) rise in quality is unlikely to bring the show back up to its ratings successes of yore, but at least it's been consistently watchable for the first time in a good few years.

KUDOS FOR ALL.