I am a number

Being possibly the only science-fiction genre television watcher to have only seen one episode of The Prisoner, and with only a passing idea of what the series is about, I’m slightly non-plussed that Christopher Eccleston would decide to do only one series of Doctor Who before falling headlong into the starring role of Number Six in a revival of Patrick McGoohan’s 1960s series. Read more

Footballers’ ex-Wives

So ITV has announced it’s cancelling Footballer’s Wives and this correspondent for one, won’t be sad to see it go. Happily, in recent years some of the more voluble self-satisfied “guilty pleasure” rumblings from columnists has died down, but surely this was the most irritatingly covered television programmes in recent years? Read more

The Apprentice

To use Sugar parlance, we’re into the “burn down” now. 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

Doctor, who?

Right, we know the form by now. I go to a Doctor Who launch then, gradually as I transcribe the roundtables, dump some of the off-cuts on here. So, let the offal tray take its first delivery courtesy of Camille Coduri talking about David Tennant’s success in stepping into the title role. Read more

Delete! Delete! Delete!

“Oh, and if you spot one Cyberman at the back who’s a little bit slower than all the others, that’s Gethin from Blue Peter.” So quipped Russell T Davies at the latest Doctor Who launch, held last night at the Apollo West End in London. Read more

The perfect sunrise – slight return

Sometime OTT Blog sparring partner Stuart Ian Burns was in touch yesterday to provide more details on Breakfast‘s makeover… Read more

Double Bill

Following up on my last post, today has indeed been the first day of the new look Breakfast. The show has left its studios in Television Centre after nearly two decades. And to celebrate the fact, they got not one, but two Bill Turnbull esq’s to file a report.

The perfect sunrise

Thankfully I don’t frequent the sort of internet forums and newsgroups where BBC1′s Breakfast is going to generate a substantial amount of pixel-space, so I don’t know what the common consensus is on the show’s new look. And in fact, I don’t know if this is something that premiered today, or yesterday during the bank holiday. Read more

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