House of cards  There has been a radical new departure from the
lounge of reality TV - in Guatemala they've established a house
exactly like every other reality TV house. It's full of
delinquents and they're going to be shoehorned together for a
good long time so that viewers can take pleasure in their dearth
of social skills. The key difference is that these are convicted
delinquents - proper, real-life criminals - and the programme-
makers are going to rehabilitate these crims as entrepreneurs.
Social benefit as well as larks. Could television get any
richer?  All in a flash, I realise I've heard this idea before -
not that you'd get a bunch of criminals and rehabilitate them,
but that television would be such a compelling idea, the notion
of getting on to it so delightful and intoxicating, that
considerations of legality and ethics would become laughably
irrelevant. A TV station would launch a programme called What's
My Crime? and appearance on it would be so desirable that people
who weren't even criminall