I'm really enjoying this - it's far from perfect but it makes me smile a lot.

And the BBC has been putting on a lot of interesting stuff lately - Wallender, for example.

Was it Peter Fincham who commissioned them? Now at ITV. Left the BBC for some stupid political reason I can't even remember.

It really is time the Beeb grew back its backbone and started ignoring the tabloid idiot headlines - just like the Government ought to be doing.

Check my lyric on Shami Chakrabarti.

This series has got better with each episode. The music parts are believable and having been in a band whilst at school I can vouch for the tensions that are being felt. Though luckily "our" parents were not as hands on as the parents in this series.

Next week looks as if it should be very good as well. It also shows up the strange fascination that even "well off" families have with "fame" and their abandonment of ideas which they apply to other "careers". Good characters as well.