Brand new thread, brand new year and brand new series. It;s time to kick off 2017 with the first of three series of Big Brother.

Welcome all! Hello to all the brilliant regulars, famous and infamous posters (you know who you are) and to all new members who have joined for the first time.

Please respect other people and do not use spoilers, if you do want to discuss the people in the house (all rumours, no confirmation), please put in a spoiler alert

Twitter has a brand new Hashtag emotion for the #CBB to promote the series.

Additional

SOTS on straight after the main show

Live Feed on straight after SOTS on Five, and yes WHATM will be returning for the live feed

ICYMI, there will be NO Big Brother Radio for this series but Doc will be back for the civilian series and Summer CBB

You've got in early

Always need to get in early on a launch night! We can post in preparation for the s***storm

John McCririck has tweeted:-

Off @ElstreeStudios to record snippet @Rylan #BBOTS @channel5_tv Tues 10.30PM Joining 2010 Ultimate @bbuk housemate @NikkiGrahame .Pity her!

https://twitter.com/RealMcCririck/st...17057586302976

That should be fun!

Nikki facial expression overload. I can see them now in my head

Looking forward to it.

Watching Celebrity BB: Heroes and Villains on 5Star at the moment.

Hello all, here's to another 30 odd days of constant bickering, fights and mistaken identities over Davids

Hope to see a few regulars from last year, here's hoping this series lineup and as a whole is better than the mess of last years summer.

Bib = And that's just out there and on social media once everyone splits off into their favourite housemate camps

Seriously though I do wish they would put this much effort into promoting the civilian series which in essence should be the main event, but the January series seem to have that honour these days

God ,you're super early, you ought to be in bed by now, or maybe you are, but I'll be back much later in the day, and will roll up my sleeves then.

I would not bank on it being better, as better they don't like.

LF eh, won't last long though. See ya later lad

Any translation available for that? Twitter is so jumbled up.

"Hashtag emotion"?

Can't believe it's already back! Not sure if I'm looking forward to it, but I'll definitely watch the launch.

Doesn't need any translation that's John's McCriricks own words.

Off @ElstreeStudios to record snippet @Rylan #BBOTS @channel5_tv Tues 10.30PM Joining 2010 Ultimate @bbuk housemate @NikkiGrahame .Pity her!

Translation:
I'm off to Elstree Studios to record a VT for BBOTS for Tuesday's program which starts at 10:30pm. Nikki Grahame will be joining me. I pity her!

Well done!

Skyrah to become official twitter translator?

I spend enough time on there with Strictly, BB & CBB

Hey guys its

emoji.

If you type in #CBB it comes up with the BB eye next to it, just like #GBBO had a picture of a cake next to it. Surprised they haven't done this years ago seeing as CBB is always a huge social media talking point,

Nice to see some regulars here!

No doubt we'll have the usual Launch Night secret task involving secret earpieces which will somehow effect the first set of noms

That will be given to either jedward/speidi or James Jordan