News
No need to watch Celeb Big Brother; Digital Spy are all over it
TV News
Matt Looker
24th August 2011
Want to know who just coughed in the Big Brother house? Why wait for Channel 5's nightly airing of the show when Digital Spy gives you up-to-the-minute updates on literally everything.
I've been meaning to write something about the new series of Celebrity Big Brother since it launched last week but I thought I'd wait until there was something worth reporting. It has taken me a long time to realise the fundamental flaw in that plan.
While keeping an eye on Celeb BB news, however, it occurs to me that Digital Spy has taken the complete opposite approach to covering the show, by littering its pages with every nap, hiccup and dump that occurs in the house. That's fine. Whatevs. Both methods of reporting are perfectly valid. But it does seem like their way takes an awful lot more effort.
Check out this snapshot of BB news reported over the past two days:
Sticking 10 people in a room and leaving them to their own devices was never going to be a big draw for high-octane adventure, so why report on every cup of tea, every suntan lotion lather and every magazine page-turn?
To be fair, Digital Spy is an aces source of all things 'entertainment news', and they perhaps shouldn't be completely ridiculed for this onslaught of mundaneness. Celebrity Big Brother is their C-major scale when it comes to trashy TV news and it no doubt gets lapped up in the same way as when SlashFilm reports on every non-news item in the world of comic-book movies.
Still, they should learn something from my favourite part of Big Brother: when they cut out the volume on the mics and all you can hear is the chirruping of crickets in the bushes, because, guess what, NOTHING IS FUCKING HAPPENING.
So there we go. I'll keep allowing the gush of inane news items to flood the internet's top TV sites and try to lift out anything important, which is perhaps asking for too much with this bunch of A-list B-list hepatitis C-list stars. In the meantime, can someone please top up Tara Reid's drug levels before her head just rolls off her shoulders?

New Releases
-
Terminator: Dark Fate
Our Review | All articles
-
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Our Review | All articles
-
Gemini Man
Our Review
-
The Laundromat
Our Review
-
Joker
Our Review | All Articles
Support Us

Follow Us
Recent Highlights
-
Review: The Irishman is a slow burn deconstruction of mafioso mythos
Movie Review
-
Review: Knives Out is a modern-age murder mystery that absolutely kills it
Movie Review
-
Review: The Knight Before Christmas in excuse for rambling film article
Movie Review
-
The crushingly inevitable Star Wars group chat email thing: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Movie Feature
-
Review: Earthquake Bird: who is he, what is his net worth, who is his wife?
Movie Review
Advertisement
And The Rest
-
The Apprentice: season 15, episode 11 recap: "The Lion, The Twit and The Small Globe"
TV Feature
-
The Apprentice: season 15, episode 10 recap: "Absolute Non Scents"
TV Feature
-
The Apprentice: season 15, episode 9 recap: "Urban Lucozade"
TV Feature
-
The Apprentice: season 15, episode 8 recap: "Going Off The Rails"
TV Feature
-
Review: The King is a noble effort, if not majestic, rings Hollow, etc.
Movie Review
-
The Apprentice: season 15, episode 7 recap: "Finn Tonne o' Tools"
TV Feature
-
Review: Le Mans '66 is great Oscar fuel. It has real drive. It's wheelie- ok I'll stop
Movie Review
-
Review: Last Christmas has everything she wants if you watch without prejudice
Movie Review
-
Review: Doctor Sleep feels like a lot of work for very little play
Movie Review
-
The Apprentice: season 15, episode 6 recap: "The Vomit Comet"
TV Feature