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This week marks the start of the new Big Brother (Thur 9pm C4). We're fairly sure this will split our readership (hello, Mrs Trellis of North Wales) right down the middle; BB is a love-it-or-hate-it proposition. TV Troll hated it until undergoing a Damascene conversion last year, so we understand both sides of the relationship with Endemol's postmodern, controversial show. Those on the "it's a sign of the End Times" bandwagon will be utterly horrified by the thought that these idiots, yes, these grinning idiots right here will be looning it up and shagging (fingers crossed) and making complete tits of themselves on every TV screen in the country while their mindless antics are dissected by the broadsheets (in that everything-is-relative, we're down with the kids honest, ironic Pop Culture Studies style they deploy to divert accusations of dumbing down) and splashed across the tabloids ("BB HOUSEMATE GETS UP, HAS A DRINK OF WATER - EXCLUSIVE PICTURES") and we really, truly feel sorry for you, we do. As usual, the producers have promised that BB is going to be meaner than ever and oooh, just wait 'til you see what we have in store for the fame-hungry, soulless drones eager beavers this year and yada yada and golden tickets and urinal cameras and .. whatever, we don't care, just bring on the fresh meat and Davina doing what she does best and Noel Edmonds (?) and the rest. We're thrilled; welcome back! more ›

After initially finding the new to be too British (presumably because the good Doctor wasn't riding around on a motorcyle firing off machine guns) the SciFi channel have pulled a u-turn and are set to begin broadcasting the first season (or 27th season if you like) this March: more ›

What are the Royal Family ? As an anachronistic reminder of our forelock-tugging, hierarchy-beholden, deferential past, they're about as welcome in modern Britain as the sticky can of Stella you find hiding behind the sofa six months after the party. The sticky can of Stella won't demand to be shuttled around the world in grand style with an endless supply of gin, either. As Londonist is always loathe to miss a chance to slag off the royals, clichéd, obvious and a bit mean though the activity is: To the barricades, comrades! Down with the anti-meritocratic monarchy! ... But only after we've watched The Queen's Sister (Sun 9pm C4), a based-on-real-and-possibly-not-so-real events, containing lots of mother's ruin, and lesbian sex. Well, hinted-at lesbian sex. Oooh er, we wonder what the Virgin Queen would think of her descendant's lifestyle; Mark Lawson offers a brilliant analysis of the Windsors' relationship with TV here, with special reference to the depiction of Princess Margaret as a "bisexual nymphomaniac". We're sold. more ›

If ever there was an excuse to buy a new TV for the wife/partner/dog this Christmas then here it is. The BBC has announced it is to begin to test High Definition TV on digital terrestrial TV in London in the next few months. more ›

TV is going monster mad this week, in the run-up to Halloween. There are vampires (The Real Vampire Chronicles, Tue 10.55pm C4 - about Allan Menzies, the maladjusted Anne Rice fan who took his Vampire: The Masquerade LARPing way, way too seriously), demons (The Curse Of The Omen, Wed 11.05pm C4 - investigating the supposed jinx that has struck the cast and crew of the son-of-Satan-in-suburbia film), mummies (Egypt, Sun 9pm BBC1 - featuring, in Londonist's fevered imagination at least, Carter and Carnarvon being chased through a pyramid by King Tut's mummy ... or maybe not; and even if Tutankhamun's burial treasure is in Cairo, our very own British Museum's Egyptian collections are hardly to be sniffed at), serial killers (The Real Silence Of The Lambs, Thur 11pm C4 - about Wisconsinite farmboy-from-hell Ed Gein, his rampant Oedipus complex and his rather unusual taste in home décor), the Mitchell Brothers (EastEnders, Mon 8pm BBC1 - yes, Grant and Phil are back, and they're angry about something, as usual) ... It's monster overload, and will put us nicely in the mood for this Saturday's zombie pub crawl. more ›