And what's more the channel more or less held my attention for nearly an hour.
This might reflect more on how appalling Top Gear has become with its leaden scripts and false bonhomie as I couldn't even get to the end of the show - is the 'cool wall' really that entertaining? And what on earth was DDB thinking in getting involved in that excrutiatingly unfunny and seemingly endless 'make a VW ad' piece?
Instead I found myself so irritated by Richard Hammond that I found myself watching Britain's Nazi King, a pretty flimsy and cheap documentary on Five about Edward VIII, but with a strangely compelling and slightly misleading title.
It's a strategy that BBC Three uses all the time - make a cheap TV show and give it a screaming tabloid headline and hope that they will come. Much to my shame, it worked on me.
The old TV mantra used to be that content is king but in a world of diminished TV programme budgets, it seems that bunging any cheap old show that includes at least some of the words Monster, Fat, Freak, Pregnant or Nazi in its title is the new way of getting viewers.
