We speculated that Davina may well go into the Big Brother house last night and we were right! Or should I say 'we were right to relay the reports we read elsewhere'? Either way, in she went and... well... we got one of the strangest segment of Big Brother ever.

Now that the Voting Public have finally learned to do the right thing concerning Celebrity Big Brother, and that's to vote out nasty shits as quickly as you can, the show, once again, looks revived (but too late). Last night's CBB7 episode was genuinely very, very funny and a reminder of how good the format can be. Now, we're set for more jollity as rumours abound that Davina is going into the fray.

This summer will see Big Brother bow out on Channel 4. It'll be the last time the show features on the channel... but how should it bow out? Well, instead of pulling out the stops to fill the house full of not-rights and attention seekers, it should fill the house will Greatest Hits...

Just when you think that the Big Brother producers have finally realised what makes the show worth watching (almost), they go and take a massive dump in your soup. Thus far, Celebrity Big Brother 7 has been a relatively jolly affair. Apart from watching Jonas Basshunter show all the sexual mental maturity of a 13-year-old.

Celebrity Big Brother 7 (or, from now on, to save on pressing keys, CBB7) has been losing viewers hand-over-fist since the opening night. For many, the opening night of Big Brother is final enough. You get to sneer and yell for an hour and then, safe in the knowledge that everyone concerned will be boring, never tune in again. Unless you're a TV critic that is...

The death rattle of Big Brother got underway last night with the latest and last instalment of Celebrity Big Brother (Channel 4, Sunday, 3rd January, 9pm). Channel 4's flagship barrel scraping kicked off with a team of people that barely count as celebrities... but that's the same as it ever was, right?

Oh no! What the hell are Heat magazine going to talk about all summer? What are poor old Nuts going to do when looking for TV stars willing to go nipple-to-nipple in their pages? If you haven't heard, Big Brother has been given the chop by Channel 4. It's not altogether a surprise really. I mean, at the last count, only three people were watching. Bearing in mind that the show has a dozen camera operators, that's pretty bleak news. The show has long been in decline and viewing figures have steadily fallen since All That Race Business With Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty. Along with Jade's death, something about the show died with her, with people coming to their own conclusions that, should you go through the mill of the show, chances are, you'll be forced to sell off your corpse to maintain your talentless fortune. Depressing, savage and somewhat true.

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To be perfectly honest, I can't ever see Big Brother 10 ending. It feels like it has been on the box for a thousand years and potential winners will come away from the house screaming like a punched howler monkey, attacking the sign wielding hordes and hurling handfuls of faeces at Davina. Or maybe they'll just end up working for This Morning. Anyway, on Friday the 4th of September 2009, BB10 will finally leave our screens... begging the question: 'Who Do You Want To Win?'

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Just in case anybody's still watching, this week it's the 10th anniversary of the start of Big Brother. Yup, it's finally here, following the inevitable build-up and a series which started out potentially interesting but has turned out to be one of the dullest so far - and quite aside from the realisation that this means the original series of Big Brother began in July (i.e we didn't have to put up with it for the entire summer back in those days.....) the celebrations - which have seen the reappearance of many old faces from houses gone by - have finally provided a reason to watch.

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Many see Big Brother as the death of all that's good and proper about television. It's hard to take that sentiment seriously when the same people usually say things like "well, I never watch television anyway...". Big Brother isn't the death of anything. It just... is. It's popular fluff that people like watching. That said, it doesn't stop Big Brother 10 from being a sure fire way of knowing what it's like to have narcolepsy. This year has been so boring that the show has finally given credence to those that have said "what's the point in watching a bunch of people sat around doing nothing."

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I have a terrible confession to make. The other night I watched Big Brother. Yes, it seems like a terrible admission but it was late and there was nothing enticing on the BBC Channels and Five didn't seem to be showing any of those 'When Sharks Attack....Cops With Cameras' type shows, so it seemed like the logical thing to do at the time. Yet I have never felt so ostracised in all my years of TV watching - or indeed felt I was the only one tuning in. As the show went on friends lined up to inform me they had given up on the show, they didn't care about it, even asking me whether it was still actually on. Now, I know Big Brother isn't been as big a small screen draw as it once was and that viewing figures have dropped, but - surely it's not as unpopular as all that? The way the press and celebrity magazines are carrying on you'd think it was as huge as ever, but apparently not. Surely someone out there must still be watching? Apart from me when there is nothing else on?

We're all used to live Big Brothers popping up in the schedules by now, and Channel 4 managed to sneak one in on Wednesday night (possibly as a way of getting us all to watch Ugly Betty, who knows? Good episode though...). In the past live episodes have presented us with everything from new housemates to shock revelations broadcast live on large plasma screens in the house (the sort that lead to tears and recriminations once the credits have rolled) but this time around it was nothing nearly so complicated. No, this time around the housemates had to take part in what can only be described as live 'speed nominating' - delivering their nominations in 90 seconds flat complete with reasons - and as an extra twist the clock kept ticking, so by the time housemates actually got to the diary room they would already be several seconds down. Nail-biting teleision? Er, no not really.

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News just in: "There is another BB next year. I am presenting it." And so spake Davina McCall on her Twitter account, casually tossed in amongst some chat about a sports day she attended with her kids. Now, I'm not sure if she's supposed to be telling everyone or not... these things are usually kept pretty secret until the last minute... but there it is. Hell, by the time you read this, she may well have deleted it. We can be pretty certain that 2010 will see Big Brother 11 hitting our screens. I for one am quite surprised at this as BB10 has completely failed to set the world alight. It's not clear whether it will be a Celebrity Big Brother or Big Brother Hijack (the latter seems incredibly unlikely) but the news for now is that we haven't seen the last of the Big Brother franchise. What are your views on it? Should next year be the last?

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Entirely as I predicted the other day, the housemate formerly known as Freddie (and now known as Halfwit, a move for which I could in fact kiss the producers) has been nominated for eviction for the second week running. In fact he wasn't just nominated by his fellow housemates, he was named and shamed in spectacular fashion, clocking up eight votes from the others, a considerably huge amount by anyone's standards. What can he possibly have done to annoy them so much? On second thoughts, do I really need to answer that?

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It's pretty obvious to anyone who has tuned into Big Brother 10 that it's hardly been a vintage year. From the live launch to present, the most startling thing that's happened is... what exactly? We've had a very brief row... um... we've had a little kissy-wissy... Saffia was mind-numbingly predictable in her wish to run off and smother her babies and... that's about it. One potential talking point concerns Angel who is showing all the signs of someone having an eating disorder. As yet, I'm not sure anyone is doing much about it. So while she's effectively left to starve and the rest continue to preen and paw, Big Brother will invariably be hatching the most crushingly obvious scheme known to man. I'm pretty certain that BB will be preparing to launch a new housemate at the direction of those that already serve.

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Once again, the tabloids are awash with news of another Big Brother snogfest. This time around it's busty ladyperson Sophie and pretty young man Kris, getting it on while sunbathing and having a tickle underneath the covers. But did they do it? You know, like, really do it? Phwoar, I hope they did. That'd be brilliant. Wouldn't it? Nah, the questions we should be asking is, nowadays, who cares?

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We're less than two weeks in, and already I may be forced to eat my carefully chosen words about the diminishing appeal of Big Brother - for this series is shaping up to be potentially interesting. The past week and a half has already seen three female housemates depart, all through entirely different methods (Beinazir never became a housemate, Sophia was evicted and Saffia just walked - thus putting a permanent end to Sophie/Sophia/Saffia confusion for ever more), others have threatened to walk, while others have engaged in fights, quarrels,spats, personality clashes.....you name it.

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Big Brother 10 is trundling on with the guile and panache of a horse on a bouncy castle. Sophia got voted out for being a little too forthright and on exit, looked weirdly like a Mini Pop. I kept expecting her to break into a high-pitched "My baby takes the morning train...". Of course, she, along with the Mohawked Lisa, have both fallen foul of that very modern disease, which is the misappropriation of honesty. Sophia slagged Saffia for being boring... but at least she did it to her face, like frontstabbing is the honourable version of backstabbing. Lisa loafed about calling Halfwit "a dickhead" and "pathetic" because he... well... wanted to be nice, albeit in a misguided way. And so, the gloves are off and we're set for some car-crash telly... right?

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