In 2000, before Big Brother had ever been broadcast in the UK, 36 men, women and children agreed to pack up their busy lives and retreat to the treeless rock of Taransay in the Western Isles for a whole year.
Reality TV in the UK was born in 2000 on a windswept Scottish isle. Now the show returns, but after years of increasingly outrageous series of Big Brother and its siblings, what will the islanders have to do to keep our interest?
In 2000, before Big Brother had ever been broadcast in the UK, 36 men, women and children agreed to pack up their busy lives and retreat to the treeless rock of Taransay in the Western Isles for a whole year.