BBC has a new "reality" show - Celebrity Sissorhands ! Celebs either cut other people's hair or get their own cut? Can the powers that be not think of anything better than this? Even the couch potatoes will switch-off !

ITV brings yet another "I'm A Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here". This is actually the most intelligent programme that ITV is currently running (but still means I'll avoid the channel for the next 3 weeks).

Meanwhile - BBC is definately to be avoided entirely next friday - it's "Children In Need" day. Now let me see ... every year they raise about

I really, really, really hate Children in Need.

Call me Humbug, but I simply cannot stand the hypocrisy that goes on in these sort of charity shows.

A night of videos for me I think, I might try and get through The Prisoner again!

In answer to the subject...

Since they hit the sewer a while ago and have been digging hard ever since, almost certainly...

I be turning on my playstation and be watching dvds and out with my mates until Tv gets better.

A very long time

On the Dish there's the new series of Bones staring on the 14th, Numb3rs will be kicking off a new series soon...

I confess, however, that if it weren't for the Crime and Investigation Channel and Hallmark (Judging Amy, Law and Order, SVU, and Criminal Intent) a lot of the time I'd be watching 'old school' Kung fu movies (in Mandarin with subtitles)

I`m with you on that Steve, I have allways given generously to charities, but I get very irrated by the last minute phone calls to work for nothing on Children in Need night, however I have found it preferable to go out than to be force fed TV of irritating quality.
I will donate as allways, but it drives me as mad as XFactor does to watch this bufoonery.

I tend to watch ITV3 most of the time, or BBC4.

I loathe designer/media charity.

I reckon Geldof and his phoney Live Aid projects started this awful, hollow, empty and hypocritical trend.

Give the punters a way not to care but to salve consciences with 50p.

Manager Man wrote:
BBC has a new "reality" show - Celebrity Sissorhands ! Celebs either cut other people's hair or get their own cut? Can the powers that be not think of anything better than this? Even the couch potatoes will switch-off !

It sounds like something Chris Morris would dream up as a joke.

But it isn't a joke and little piece of me has just died.

As my esteemed elder brother, hereinafter referred to as 'Mycroft', put it about Live8

"Saint Bob and the has-beens blowing smoke up each other's arses"


You can tell the blood of Bards and Poets is strong with us...

This was okay in the early days when it was modest, small scale and spontaneous. It was set in the Wogan studio, and regulars were Roy Kinear and Patrick Moor. Other celebs would "pop in" as they were able. On one occasion someone phoned in to offer money if Patrick Moore did press-ups. Nothing like the contrived, glitzy extravaganza of today.

I don't watch it these days. I think it was the TV Chefs doing the Full Monty which was the final straw.