Wimbledon will officially start on Monday and there is already plenty of drama unfolding from the qualifying matches.The Williams sisters are both fired up for stealing Safina’s title, Nadal is contemplating not defending his title due to a knee injury and no-body knows whether the weather will stay as glorious as it has been recently.

However, the most interesting subject for most of us is Andy Murray, the Scot (who we all call a Brit when his wins) who is now seeded 3rd.
It seems as though he may have a decent chance this year as Nadal (seed 1) is a limp-a-lot and Roger Federer (seed 2) could be exhausted after winning the French open. Murray has said that if he plays well then he has a good chance against most guys but he is wary of the dark horses like Ivo Karlovic.

The other hot topic this year is the new roof on centre court which means the showpiece matches cannot be rained off. 1.6million viewers tuned into the ‘unveiling of the roof’ show on BBC2 in May where the glamorous Katherine jenkins performed – they obviously couldn’t afford to get old time favourite Cliff Richards on the show.
Since 2001, telecasts have brought in average audiences of 2 – 2.5million, in the true glory days (when Cliff would entertain in the rain) the audiences reached 8.42million viewers but that was way back when digital TV was unheard of and BBC ratings were sky high generally.
With our hopes pinned on Andy Murray, and centre court under cover perhaps the ratings will bump up this year. 

Will you be watching? As an incentive, a prize will go to whoever can name Nadal’s irritating habit?

Last’s nights brilliant, albeit easy, 6-0 performance by England against Andorra pulled in 9.7 million viewers at peak time. TV viewing figures perhaps somewhat higher than predicted due to those with Wembley tickets being forced to watch from home. All this down to the RMT union leading strike action on the tube.

As we all know, the city becomes somewhat paralysed when any transport is affected, and apparently the potential collective loss to London’s business’ caused by this strike could be as much as £100 million. Who knows how much of a loss Wembley stadium made last night!

However, I think there is a good point to take from all this chaos and that is that it may have alerted the commuters and Londoners that we could save collectively, millions if we were to seek alternative modes of transport to our places of work.

I was personally baffled at the sheer number of people walking the streets last night as usually they are hidden away underground and watching the riverboats cruise by, busier than ever with commuters precariously perching on deck due to the lack of seats inside.
I read about someone considering riding their horse into town and many using scooters – the foot powered variety to get to work and personally having spotted two children hitching a ride on the back of, what I hope was, their Grandmas mobility scooter, it made me wonder how many ingenious modes of transport were actually thought up yesterday?

Whether you struggled to get to Wembley to see England thrash the Andorrans or whether you were just trying to go about your normal day, how have you been transporting yourself during the strikes?

I read today that Pope Benedict has given his approval to social networking sites such and Facebook and MySpace describing them as “a gift”.
He commended the way that they bring people together and help form friendships. However he warned that they may isolate people from real and ordinary social interaction.

With over 16 million users in the UK and over 150 million active users worldwide, Mr Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook must be a very proud man. There are more than 35 translations available on the site with more than 60 in development – I wonder if they are developing one in Latin….?

In this digital age where we all communicate by texting, emailing, Facebook messaging etc etc and now with the Pope’s blessing, will we all end up being cyber space junkies and isolate ourselves from real social interaction?

Personally I don’t think so, the pub will always be calling me…..!

Having seen that Celebrity Big Brother pulled in 6 million viewers for the live launch and in excess of 3 million viewers for each episode since, I began to wonder who on earth are the people watching.
I thought that surely everybody would be by now, tired and bored of the whole concept of viewing so-called celebrities but apparently not.

To be fair they have put (and I expect payed a hell of a lot of money for) a few pretty decent characters in the house this year.
Heat radio updates me every hour of every day on who has done what, and who said what to who so I’m beginning to think even I, a reality TV hater, could perhaps tune in to see what all the fuss is about.

From what I’ve heard, Coolio has come across as the most interesting person, if only for his “nasty nick” characteristics. All the talk of who he has offended and made cry seems like it could actually be quite fun to watch! (cue evil laugh!)

Has anyone been watching? Any hilarious stories from the house? Is Coolio wrecking the show?

Saturday night saw the return of Strictly Come Dancing for its 6th series.
The show peaked at 8.83 million adult viewers which beat the viewing figures from last years first show as it only peaked at 7.89 million.

The 16 contestants and professional dance partners had to perform the Waltz or the Cha Cha Cha in front of the judging panel.
Phil Daniels aka ex-eastender ‘Kevin Wicks’ did his best to perform the Waltz with partner Flavia only to be the 1st couple voted off!

So how well will this series do in comparison to last year?
The BBC1 have done well to recruit beauties Rachel Stevens and Jodie Kidd to pull in a male audience but with Kelly Brooke and Alesha Dixon in Series 5, they have their work cut out!
For the ladies – Holby City heart-throb Tom Chambers was first out on the dance floor with “the confidence of a tomcat claiming his territory” according to judge Bruno Tonioli. Tom will surely keep the female ratings sky high as long as he stays in the competition…..

Who will keep you watching?