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ACCUSED Cosby faces charges of indecent sexual assault C5, 8.30pm

BILL Cosby truly was an American icon. Finding fame as a stand-up comedian in the 1960s, he became an Emmy award-winning actor and one of the first black performers to conquer American mainstream popular culture.

It is June 2017 and a bunch of deluded and desperate fame-hungry wannabes with controversial opinions and questionable behaviours are competing for your vote.

No, we’re not talking about the general election but the start of a new series of Big Brother. Series 437, we are unreliably informed.

Channel Five really is determined to flog this decaying horse for everything it’s worth.

And apparently this time around they are aiming for a ‘United Kingdom of Big Brother’ theme, which – given that the country is undeniably massively divided – is either ironic, naive or just plain daft.

Anyway, we all know the drill by now. A load of strange folk will be locked up in a house in Elstree, with cameras on them 24 hours a day, whilst shadowy figures behind the scenes do everything they can to get them to either hate or hump BBC2, 9pm UNITED Emma and Rylan

each other. Once again Emma Willis is the safe and stylish pair of hands in charge of proceedings, followed by Rylan Clark-Neal who does a brilliant job hosting Bit on the Side.