Big Brother is back for reality overload

I admit to getting a bit choked up at the grand finale of Big Brother last year.

We were saying goodbye to something that has been part of my telly viewing for 10 years. I'd loved it, I'd hated it, but I was rather sad to see it go.

We saw it off in fine style, though, and it felt like closure.

But now it's back, and I'm not quite sure how I feel about that.

It's still being made by the same people, so it ought to be as good. Except it's now on Channel 5, not Channel 4. And Davina McCall won't be hosting - it would be rather embarrassing for her to return after so much fuss was made of her departure and so many tears shed.

Other changes mean we're getting it in the autumn, not the summer, which I think is a major mistake. We have quite enough reality TV then what with Strictly Come Dancing, The X Factor and I'm a Celebrity.

Big Brother is what sees us through the wasteland of August when there's nothing but repeats on telly - although we are, apparently, getting a celebrity version then.

BB should also be on in the summer so we get lots of shots of beautiful young things sunbathing in bikinis and shorts. They'll have to be brave to do that on a nippy October morning.

I think the answer must be to move the Big Brother house Down Under, get Ant and Dec to present it and set the housemates challenges of learning to sing and ballroom dance. Now that would be the ultimate reality show.