AE on Telly News (NEW CONCEPTS)

[Mick Harper]

The Regime has become a bit soap-operish. But it may be because the latest episode was directed by someone other than Stephen Frears so I'm sticking with it.

[Wile E. Coyote]

Somewhere in California.

" It's a story about a codpiecce and a hunchback"

"Love it, a deformed bell-ringer turns ito Superman and falls in love with a a gypsy dancer "

" That's not quite it"

" Has it a Cathedral?"

"Emm, we have a strong clerical theme"

"Great, Love it!" "Plenty of dark Gothic mystery, no doubt"

"Well yes" "I mean" "Hell YES!"

"Set in Europe?"

"We can do that if you like, a fine sprinking of Euro Castle Disney"

"What's the working title"

"Shardlake"

"Hmmm. You might need to work on that, still love the concept, get me Sean Bean!"

[Mick Harper]

Bean There, Done That

I've been listening to Shardlake on R4X with only a limited amount of engagement but I am now bereft of all streaming services so I am reliant on your daughter for further intelligence.

[Mick Harper]

Changing Ends (ITV-1)

Not the sort of broad comedy I would watch (or I would watch and keep quiet about it) but this has two oddities that commend it (1) a real football manager, Graham Carr, of Northampton Town (of the seventies when the series is set) and (2) the adult Alan Carr acting as a fourth wall device.

Check it out and tell me I'm not wrong.

[Mick Harper]

Mark Urban is reporting from swing-state Arizona. Lots of local fruitcakes, a new factory churning out Biden chips, a bit on immigration, all the usual. He wraps up the piece standing in front of USS New Jersey -- a mothballed battleship not a swing state -- using it as a metaphor for a mothballed Joe Biden. And so to bed...

Hang on. Arizona has no coastline. How do you get a fifty thousand ton battleship there? Have they turned the Rio Grande into the Kiel Canal? Jimjams off, telly back on. Oh, they'd cut to Washington without telling us. Telly off, jimjams on.

[Grant]

Newsnight tonight.

Someone died because of turbulence on a flight so Newsnight is leading with an article about it.
Apparently it's increasing because of, you've guessed it, global warming.

Two have now died on scheduled flights in the last 27 years.

Meanwhile six people a year in Britain are killed by cows

[Wile E. Coyote]