I can’t believe that Big Brother is back on telly. It is a mind-numbingly irritating programme and yet somehow we ended up watching it last night, finding ourselves fascinated by the twist.
This time, Big Brother is a different celebrity each day, and each one can do anything they like to the housemates, presumably short of violating their human rights. And it is this potential for extreme exploitation that makes the show interesting.
After all, what is Jimmy Carr going to do to them? Matt Lucas was very entertaining as he forced the Chairman of the Scottish Youth Parliament to act like a complete nutcase all evening.
Personally I would recreate the Stanford Prison Experiment and see what happens. Or perhaps the Stanley Milgram experiments regarding obedience. Or maybe persuade them that an end of days scenario has occurred and everything has gone offline and they can’t get out.
Which, apart from me not being a Celebrity, is another reason why they won’t let me be Big Brother.
Ooh they should get Derren Brown to do it.
