With the sixth series of Big Brother expected to start in just a month time, it's been announced that Freeview will be streaming the action from the house throughout the series.

E4 is currently a paid Top Up TV channel on the Freeview service, but is said to be switching to a free-to-air channel at the end of May - just in time for the new series.

E4+1 will also be launching on Freeview to give an hour-delayed view of action from the house, as was available with last years series on Sky Digital.

Of course the one major problem with Freeview is that the signal quality is patchy to say the best, and despite getting some channels you might not get others, so it could be a risky move buying a Freeview box in the hope to get the live streaming, just to find you can't pick up the E4 channel, and it's not clear if the current Top Up TV channel frequency will be kept when it goes free next month, so even if you can get it now you might find you can't when the series starts...

...I used to be able to get the E4 "top up tv" screen telling me it was available if I paid for it, but now don't even seem to be able to get that channel since knocking the aerial a few weeks back causing half the channels to vanish...

You can find out more about Freeview and availability of it in your area at www.freeview.co.uk and there's a selection of Freeview boxes available in the Cuss shop.

The Eye will keep an eye on all the news of Big Brother 2005, and get back to you.