You spin me right round, BBC

The new BBC1 idents have finally been unveiled, and it looks as though they might be quite good (compared to the last set anyway). Read more

Comic asides

Just lately there appears to have been an increasing jocular nature to continuity announcements on television, particularly on BBC2. Read more

Count down south

The power and possibly the ego of Des Lynam seems to have surfaced, and as of next year his only current television show, Countdown, is relocating from its Leeds studios to “somewhere near the M25″ because he is apparently fed up of having to travel up to Yorkshire for a week once a month to record the programme. This 400 mile taxing routine seems to be all too much for poor Des according to certain newspapers. Read more

BBCITVBBC

MediaGuardian today reports that in yet another example of looking backwards for drama inspiration, the BBC is preparing a new version of that grand old classic Dracula to be broadcast this Christmas. Read more

Left hand/right hand

MediaGuardian today reports that the BBC is considering plundering ideas from times past yet again to revive another show from days of old. This time, the programme in question is Survivors, or rather Terry Nation’s Survivors as the Nation Estate would probably prefer it to be known this time around. Read more

Top of the Pops pops off

It has just been announced on the radio that Top of the Pops has finally been axed by the BBC. Read more

Saxondale

It’s good to see Steve Coogan back starring in a BBC2 sitcom. His intermittent forays into Hollywood have hardly propelled him into the A-list of stardom (Around the World in 80 Days anybody?) Read more

Pundit wars

The World Cup is upon us once again and there are bags of matches lined up for the dedicated fan to watch. But which side, BBC or ITV, is going to win the battle of the pundits? Read more

Camera moans

Shahbaz on Big Brother 7 appears to have gone completely off the wall so quickly it makes you wonder how on earth he ever managed to pass the psychological assessment to get on the show. Read more

Going for a gong – slight return

Further to Ian’s post the other day on the desperate state of ITV at the BAFTAs, it seems the network bosses themselves agree. Read more

Holby Blue

The title of that Holby City spin-off that I was whinging on about the other day is apparently Holby Blue. Read more

Drowning in soap

So the BBC has announced that there is going to be a spin-off from a spin-off to Casualty. Read more

“Duts”

Having seen some of the new series I have to agree with Steve in that it is great to see Bullseye back on the box (albeit stuck out of mainstream way on Challenge), and Dave Spikey seems to be a fairly good replacement for Jim Bowen, but isn’t it a little annoying the way that he says “duts” instead of “darts”?

You won’t be able to watch the show without thinking about that now.

Catching snippets

For some of us, now is the time when our hard-drive recorders come in very handy. Unlike Graham, who was fortunate enough to have attended the Doctor Who press event the other night, us lot had to retune our Sky Digiboxes to BBC Wales last night to catch some of the first glimpses of the new series, or try to see clips on one of the breakfast programmes when we should have been at work. Read more

The never ending bottle

And so the final dregs have still be to be drained from the vessel containing the Last of the Summer Wine. Tuning in last night for the first time in a while it is refreshing to see little has changed for the old men of the Dales. It is quite incredible to think the show has been running for well over 30 years now, especially considering it was last really funny in about 1984 during the Compo, Clegg and Foggy golden age. Read more

Life on Mars

Kudos have already proved their mainstream worth with the success of both Spooks and Hustle and look set to complete a hat-trick with this new series. Read more

2005

Too much of anything is bad for you, as Stephen Fry once thundered, because that’s precisely what too much means: a quantity which is excessive. Too much water would be bad for you, because it would be too much. Fact. Read more

Zippy and George’s Puppet Legends

For some reason you just don’t seem to get a decent quality of puppet on the television these days. The kind of fuzzy-felt stars in this rundown simply cannot be matched by the lacklustre ones that appear on the television all too rarely now. Read more

Frontline Football

Ben Anderson presents some of the most interesting and thought-provoking documentaries currently on British television. Read more

The Thick of It

As he had been away from our screens for a while Armando Iannucci’s new political comedy had been something to look forward to, especially as the initial run had been put back due to the General Election. Read more

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