Big Brother to build Truman Show village.

Celebrity contestants will occasionally appear to raise the quota. But the main group of contestants will remain “for decades” according to Mr Laux.

People trapped in a studio for decades? It’s already happened. 4 episodes of Coronation Street per week mean that the actors effectively become their characters. I remember seeing an interview with one of the CS actors, possibly the one that plays Vera (don’t ask me, I don’t watch it), where she was speaking in a rather posh southern accent. At one point she got excited and slipped into the Mancunian accent she uses in the show. She had clearly become her character and was ashamed of it.

Note: The Truman Show was written by Andrew Niccol, who also wrote Gattaca. He seems to be in touch with accurately predicting the future. I must watch S1m0ne one of these days…