So! The Krypton Factor returns at 7:30pm tomorrow night (that’s Tuesday), and if you didn’t read our recording review from a while ago (I’ll try and have it up soon) you may wonder what’s in store:

• The semi-final and final was filmed in front of a live and in shot audience. I have no idea if the heats were also filmed in front of an audience.
• Mental Agility is back in The Kube. It’s 45 seconds now. There is more chat afterwards.
• Observation works a bit differently – everyone gets two questions, correct answers earn two points for the round, wrong answers are thrown over and incur a -1 penalty.
• Physical Ability on an all new course. Now, if you’re expecting something like the original assault course from the eighties, you’re going to be rather disappointed – it’s similarly cross-country to last year. But it is a marked improvement on last year – all contestants go together, and once the hill running is over the back half of the course has lots of proper obstacles. So stick with it if it feels a bit boring at the beginning.
• There is no Intelligence round. Yes, I think that’s a silly idea as well.
• General Knowledge has increased to 90 seconds. The old-style question threading that seemed a bit loose last time has been tightened up, if the Grand Final is anything to go by.

It is a bit of a mixed bag really.

Well, Celebrity Big Brother starts in a bit. Why not join us to find out who is in it?

• Stephen Baldwin, contestant on every reality show ever plus is an actor. Wow, they’re going town on these biographies. Ha! Comes in to Marylin Manson’s cover of Personal Jesus (we think?). Oh, Davina’s chatting to everyone before they go in. He’s going to be the “light of truth”. Oh wow, they’ve really gone to town with the look of this with a door INTO HELL.
• Nicola Tappenden aka Nicola T Page 3 model and one time WAG. Doesn’t want to find “housemate skidmarks”.

Nicola and Stephen discuss the kitchen. She thinks it looks like a restaurant kitchen, he’s noticed that it’s “a bit creepy” – it’s stylised like a hospital operating theatre.

Ad break. Ooh, new Compare the Meerkat advert.

• Alex Reid – crossdressing cage fighter and ex of Jordan. Oh, did he used to be in Hollyoaks? Blimey. Oh he seems quite game for this – wants to turn all the boos into cheers.
• Stephanie Beecham off of Dynasty. Hang on! She’s like a proper celeb! Big cheers from the crowd. (Note: it’s quite difficult to tell with the intro strings whether the crowd are booing them before the reveal!) She has no idea how she’s going to survive the house.
• Lady Soveriegn – “Grime MC”. They appear to have pixellated her sticking her fingers up on a poster. Doesn’t want to be stuck with anyone old-fashioned, or a chav.

Apparently after the break someone’s going to be making an entrance with a song and dance, and we will get our knickers in a twist. COME ON LIONEL BLAIR!!!

• Sisqo – of Thong Song fame. Oh God, he’s singing The Thong Song in his entrance, presumably so that people know who he is.
• Dane Bowers – BUGGIN’! Singer. Ex- of Jordan (what odds Peter Andre for the set, here?). He looks a bit resigned about the whole thing. No fight between him and Reid promised.
• Heidi Fleiss – “Entrepreneur” and Madam. Will she reveal who she got girls for?

Right down, four more to go I think. Although if it’s going to be Hell, surely it should be 13 total? Or perhaps 666? Actually what a great show that would be, several hundred celebrities are built up and then walk through a door once a year for several hours. And that’s it – the entire show is predicated on the excitement of who is going to come through a door. Noel’s House Party had it nearly right.

• Jonas Altberg aka Basshunter, the Swedish DJ who likes to have sex. He had Tourettes, but has cured himself apparently. Watch out ladies, he’s single. This evening Matthew he’s going to be James Bond. “I’m going to touch base [Bass], and then I’m going to do some hunting!” WINNER. 
• Katia Ivanova – Ronnie Wood’s ex. Basically. Appears to be going out with Different Class-era Jarvis Cocker, if that newspaper photo is anything to go by.
• Vinnie Jones – hardman footballer and “actor”. Oh this might be quite interesting. He could well win this. He’s not appreciating the old weather.

Oh that appears to be all eleven, Big Brother promising first “thing” after the break. Meanwhile, the awesome Broken TV is liveblogging this with numbers, although he doesn’t seem to have heard of anyone.

First task – fit as many of you in a mini (dressed as a devil) as you can in five minutes, if you’re not in in five minutes there will be a punishment. This could be quite interesting… it’s like 1960s It’s a Knockout! They succeed! Ha ha, I bet the producers weren’t expecting THAT to happen!

Anyway, that appears to be launch night – successful enough that I’ll tune into it tomorrow.