The TV Cream (Easter) Egg Scheduling Challenge!
There’s a panic on at Television Centre.
The schedule for Easter Monday evening has been mislaid, and a new one needs to be compiled as quickly as possible. There are only a limited number of programmes to choose from, and a tight budget.
Can you devise the perfect BBC1 Easter Monday prime-time line-up?>
MONDAY 15th MARCH
16.05 We Are The Champions, BBC1
An extremely swift repeat run for this series, every day at this time, which begs the question why they even bothered showing them on CBBC in the first place. Sadly, it’s not very good – they don’t even pan along the row of kids so they can do a thumbs up! What a waste.
Please Sir!
5C’s well-meaning and liberal form teacher has his work cut out convincing senior teaching staff that his form won’t cock around too much in rural Woodbridge.
‘Something Outa Nothing’ by Letitia Dean & Paul J. Medford
Never mind your Simon Cowells – back in the mid-eighties it was another Simon, a mild-mannered composer by the name of May, who set his sights on total domination of the pop music infrastructure
Starlord
A year on from 2000 AD’s launch, the IPC overlords thought they’d have another crack at the sci-fi whip, this time producing a relatively plush publication (eight pages of full colour, if you can believe it) for the more discerning sciffy fan.
Custard Stops at Hatfield, The
Comedians’ autobiographies are, as a rule, to be approached with a critical ten foot pole, if not a censorious mop and bucket.
Naughty French Wine
1983, and the alcoholic British palate is evolving at a rate of knots. Wine has finally arrived!
