Big Brother

By Lynette Rice I can't believe we're really here. If you haven't figured it out by now, we have the recently resolved writers' strike to thank for the first-ever winter edition of Big Brother. Which reminds me, a little business before pleasure: Even though the strike's been resolved and the writers were supposed to get back to work yesterday on all those original episodes of Moonlight and Ghost Whisperer, CBS is insisting that it will keep its promise to air BB9 three days a week through May. (Fortunately, the uncertainty surrounding the return of The Unit, Shark, and Cane has provided some conveniently free time slots for the Chenbot's kids.) So unless BB9's ratings hit rock bottom, we can rest assured that we'll have almost three blissful months to enjoy the head-scratching 'Til Death Do You Part twist. And speaking of pure bliss, BB fans at EW like Kristen Baldwin, Jeff Jensen, Henry Goldblatt, and me will begin participating in our first ever Big Brother video talk show on EW.com next week. As that knucklehead Jacob would say, come see us ''turn the chicken up!'' (which I'm assuming has something to do with boosting one's game play and not with overcooking the poultry).

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