The final “Celebrity” Big Brother closed its doors on Friday with Jordan’s better half crowned champion to the delight of a reasonably substantial 4m audience. Not quite to the levels of the Shilpa Shetty series but no-one in this years had the same audience pull that you get from violence and racism.

Now, all we have to do is get through a final series of regular punter Big Brother and Channel 4 can finally lay this demon to rest.

For about the first two series, Big Brother was a geniunely interesting programme that could justifiably be described as a social experiment. For a good 5 or 6 series too long its dragged on to easily fill their Summer schedule, with increasingly wierd contestants looking for a platform to dubious fame (Kinga “bottlegate” Karolczak / Michelle “i now present on the adult channels” Bass for starters).

My hope is that, for this Summers they’ll return to a mix of people who aren’t the most bizarre fame hunters in the country, have a bit of fun with it, wave it a fond farewell and get back to some cutting edge, exciting programming for Summer 2011.

Or does anyone disagree and are going to be sad to see it end?

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