This week is a bit boring, soz.

But next week might be quite fun. The [Celebrity] Inner Circle starts on Saturday night with weekdaily episodes minus the celebrities (and some of the prizemoney) starting next Monday – bafflingly they’ve put it on the same night as Weakest Link, either side of Strictly, which for reasons that may become apparent is a choice, but it’s great news for fans of two-to-two-minute-thirty rounds of general knowledge questions and voting. And then next Tuesday young/old travel competition Worlds Apart begins on Channel 4 after Bake Off (and wisely not clashing with Celeb Traitors starting next Wednesday). Both of these will have Show Discussion posts in due course.

We have almost finished watching Alice in Borderland series three on Netflix, the first four episodes were great but episode five is a rather stodgy, albeit with an interesting idea, and I shall look forward to seeing how it ends tonight probably.

Also Big Brother started last night and it’s great to see the return of Big Brother having to get narky with the contestants because they’ve just entered the house and are overexcited and there’s a complex set-piece twist (this one involving a live vote and some plastic eyes podiums lighting different colours) to be getting on with on live television, which is usually the best bit of any launch night.