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...
Mark Thompson has finally admitted that the BBC must cut its budgets. Not, as you might expect, because it is lavish, over-staffed and is strangling its commercial rivals to death but because it might breach its ‘statutory borrowing limit'. How awful if that happened. Oh well, nonetheless we should...
Obviously pleased with the format and throwing its much-vaunted ‘public value test' to the wind, BBC Three has been endlessly repeating a show that it ran over Christmas called Most Annoying People 2008. It's a predictably crummy cheap programme, more the sort of low-brow populist fare that you'd...