Barbelith Underground > Film, TV & Theatre > Big Brother: Revenge of the Sixth.

I think the rule of the even numbered Big Brother being boring will hold true.

That's bollocks. Series 2 was the two-gayer one featuring Brian Dowling getting horribly horribly threatened by the presence of another Gay In The Village. It was much more interesting than the subsequent series. The odds/even thing is a non-rule.

All the housemates seemed to be trying very hard to stand out in their auditions as you would in order to get chosen and will turn out to be far less interesting than the producers hoped.

Yeah, the fools. You'd think they'd go for 12 people who didn't stand out in any way. Of course, the programme's producers could well be showing us a summary of excerpts which they feel summarise each individual into a snappy one-line concept...

I think they (the BB producers) have moved from being evil last year to being pimptastic this year by packing the house with hypersexed heterosexual men and girls that purport to swing both ways.

But they do that every year; studs and bi-swingers are the generic 'filler' of Big Brother and, almost entirely without exception, they consistently disappoint. The theme hasn't moved from "evil" to "pimp"; it's always been "pimp" and it's gradually become more "evil".

We have moved slowly year on year from a few fumbles under the bedclothes to full on intercourse (probably) under a table last year so it is finally time for the British BB orgy. It ain't going to fucking happen though is it.

Of course not. I don't think we've "moved slowly" onwards in terms of sexual stuff, particularly. Last year's supposed full-on penetrative stuff (yeah, rrright) wasn't exactly orgy material; I think it was more down to the Mollusc's unusual persistence in getting her man than any decision on the part of the producers (other than their decision to put her in the house, obviously).

I'm unsure as yet as to whether it's going to be interesting or boring. Last year's was made memorable, for me, by the sexual ambivalence of Spamboy and the maternal/predatory Dan (who, in the final reckoning wasn't predatory enough). On first sight, there's nothing of quite that ilk this year. They've got three homos in the house, sure, but they all seem to be the Brian/Marco gets-on-with-straight-women variety rather than the Dan gets-on-with-straight-men type, which is potentially more interesting. I've a feeling Kemal and Craig might just avoid the hets, hole up with the other Queer Outsiders and talk about love, sex and witchcraft for the next howevermany weeks - and Derek will have sublimated any erotic drive into distinctly Uncle Tom/Groucho Marx politicking.

I hope not. I hope there's at least some sexual frisson that doesn't involve manufactured baps-oot girl-on-girl synthjoy for the watching hetboys (and cameras).