Is voting someone out of the Big Brother reality TV house much different from voting out politicians? “Television has always been a problem for politicians, but never more so than now, when it is questioning their very ethos and raison d’être. Politics is going through the biggest change since the emancipation of women. It is massive, what could happen in the next five to 10 years, in the meshing of direct and representative democracy. It is something new. Television has picked up on interactivity in the telecommunications world. That is driving it.”