Fabrika Zvezd is taking over my life

As predicted, I'm not doing much these days other than religiously watching repeats of last year's Fabrika Zvezd, Russia's answer to Fame Academy/Pop Idol/Big Brother/whatever. It's pretty addictive viewing, even though I don't know nearly enough Russian to understand what's going on most of the time. I seem to have picked up quite a lot so far though, Arseniy Borodin doesn't do much except sit around and look pretty (and touch up his distinctly plain, miserable girlfriend at every opportunity), Dennis Petrov appears to fancy everyone, everyone seems to be a bit horrible to Prohor, and whatever happens during an episode, it usually all ends in at least 3 people having a massive cushion fight. The highlight however came last night, when Dima Koldun was making a tower out of crispbread. Gripping stuff is Russian telly!