I've been watching the final season of ER on More4. The show has certainly lost quality in the last 2 or 3 years, but it was good to see Doctors Green and Romano again in a specially written flash back.

This week's episode was disappointing. One patient's husband had been cleared of child abuse allegations but was still being persecuted. I was beginning to think that the show was taking a sympathetic view of people in that situation, until one of the doctors said that he could tell the man was guilty because the doctor himself had been a victim of abuse and so he knew all about "them". Suddenly I felt that the viewer was meant to believe the man was guilty, and the atmospheric music when he was near a child supported this feeling. ER seems to have fallen into the easy trap of suggesting that all child abuse claims are true. It would have been more worthy of this show's history to go against the grain and maybe highlight the way emotions get in the way of rational judgement in this area.

Meanwhile, Gary Glitter got a brief mention in this week's episode of Minder. A man bequesthed his vinyl collection, including his Gary Glitter records. Jamie, the Minder, slightly sniggered but only in the way that suggests he thinks Glitter's recods were rather cheesey. It would have been easy to have the recipient recoil in horror at the name, but they avoided that route, and credit to them for doing so.

My sister is a big ER fan but she hasn't got round to digital yet so she's hoping it'll be shown on channel 4. I haven't really watched it since Romano got crushed by the helicopter. The writers seemed to go brain dead after that and fell back on sex romps in the pill cupboards, etc.