Friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

DS:BB is back.. and this time it's better than ever before.

There are now just under three weeks remaining until once again the nation becomes captivated by the goings-on in a certain Hertfordshire house.

For the past few months the DS:BB team have been beavering away making preparations to bring you unrivalled coverage of this year's show.

First and foremost we have a brand new site design. Gone is the lengthy menu of pages displayed down the left hand side of the site, replaced by a simple section listing across the top. You'll also find links to the latest live updates, news stories and top forum discussions over to the right.

All of your favourite columns will be back this year -- Hogan on the House, Emzi and Pitt's Predictions. They'll be joined by two newcomers, Calrissian's psychological assessment and an astrological take on things in the 13th house.

Our reporting team has nearly doubled in size so we can bring you more of our most popular feature, the live updates. The live updates service reports the events in the BB house on a minute-by-minute basis... and this year, they're interactive. You'll be able to send the reporters your comments on the action via email, which, if selected, could appear on the website.

And of course you'll be able to browse the latest news, view screengrabs from the live coverage in BB in Pictures and find out when BB's on TV in our handy TV Guide.

This year you'll be able to catch up with the latest from DS:BB wherever you are with a range of new features. Our fully customisable SMS text alerts service allows you to pick the news you want, when you want it. What's more, you get 10 free message credits when you sign up to the service.

If you have a WAP-enabled phone, you can browse the site on the move, or you can check out our lite version if you have a PDA device.

With the all-new DS:BB Mailer you can sign up for a free daily newsletter including the top news headlines from the site.

There are also chances to win a variety of BB-related prizes in our weekly compeitions.

So if there's only one website you visit this summer, make it DS:BB. Keeping up with Big Brother just got easier.