This site's first apparent surge in popularity came when I got myself some proper hosting and also when I started regularly commenting on Big Brother 2. So I'm trying to contain my excitement over the launch of Big Brother 3 which is apparently 'as much a part of British summer as Wimbledon'. There's a new house (described elsewhere on the BBC as a rhomboid monstrosity) which will be 15% bigger, more orange than the contestants' fake tans and has a heated swimming pool. Parallax View predicts that in the first two weeks everybody will be saying how much duller the people are than last year before getting gradually hooked on the show's winning combination of tedium, cruelty, gossip and nudity. The fun is rumoured to start May 28.

Related link: Of course wherever Big Brother goes, Big Brother's Little Brother must surely follow, and this means - yes, girls - more diddy Dermot O'Leary (via linkmachinego).