As I'm sure you're all aware Big Brother is the original TV reality show which locks 11 or so fame hungry no marks into a house and film their adventures 24 hours a day. It has spawned numerous international versions, celebrity spin offs and paved the way for a Tsunami of similar shows giving the producers the sort of legacy that not even a priest to absolve them of.
Like most sane and rational people in the UK I've not been watching the current Channel 4 series. This apparent lack of attention has caused something of a panic in the production office so recently there's a been a rash of adverts and trailers for the show which seemed designed to make my blood boil getting me to watch and more importantly talk about the series.
Today the news has broken that Celebrity Big Brother pantomime villain Jade Goody has been diagnosed with cervical cancer and has been forced to pull out of the Indian version of the show "Bigg Boss". This news is made even more shocking by the fact that Ms Goody only joined the show the day before yesterday and the tests for cancer were carried out four weeks ago.
If sending someone onto a TV show knowing that they had cancer wasn't clue enough that the show was in dire straits it's clear that the desperation has set in deep because even BBC2, Channel 4's broadcast rival is getting in on the act showing a special episode of Diagnosis Murder. In this episode Dr Sloan and his team go undercover to investigate a murder on a TV game show where the contestants were locked in a house and their adventures are filmed 24 hours a day.
Now never being one to disappoint here is my advert;
Big Brother, Channel 4 10pm tonight. Please, please watch because the lesbians clearly have something very important to tell you. I just hope it is something more earth shattering then the news that since it's formation out of Racal military communications in the early 1980's Vodafone has been part of the network of private companies used by the British Security Services to control their community based agents. Or as it's is being put lately; Vodafone is Big Brothers mobile phone company!
Now while everybody's off discussing whether or not it would have been better to keep quiet and let that particular Red Flag fly high I'm off to assess the effect that the news the most hated woman in India has cancer is going to have on that nations booming bio-medical research industry.
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