Review: Big Brother, Channel 4

10:30am Saturday 9th August 2008

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I DON'T want to sound like a broken record, but is anyone actually watching Big Brother anymore?

This series seems to have dragged on for about three years . . . and there's still a houseful of inmates left.

As soon as they kick one out, it seems they're shipping another one in.

The problem with Big Brother nowadays is that they pack so many of them in the house it's hard to summon up enough energy to learn their names, let alone care about any of them.

And it's cruel too — you know most of them will never get that dream TV presenter job they're hoping for.

And as usual all the big characters were voted out early on (Mario, Becca, Luke) so there's nothing left to watch but a bunch of nobodies splashing about in the swimming pool, eating chickpeas, having staged pillow fights and moaning about how they're missing home.

The characters this year seem to be blander than ever, too.

There's Rex, the man with the world's weirdest haircut — a mixture between a 99 ice cream and a cow pat; cookie monster Kathreya whose "crazy" act seems to be wearing a little thin; and Mo who seems to do little but hang around showing off his man-boobs and eating.

And don't even get me started on Rachel, Mikey and Dale.

The only ones actually mildly interesting are albino yank Darnell and outrageous flirt Sara.

Who goes next? Who cares?