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Comic Relief: 13 March 2009

Why don't the people behind Comic Relief just cut out the middle man and get the likes of Simon Cowell, Jonathan Ross, Bono and Robbie Williams to stump up half of one percent of their earnings for a year? This will save us all having to listen to them guilt-tripping those less well-off into parting with their cash, and we might get to watch the programmes we like on a Friday night instead of this cobbled-together baloney. How these guys in particular think it is ok to ask the public to donate money just because they have given up their supposedly precious time is absolutely beyond me.

Red Riding: Part Two

Apologies for last week's Red Riding post. It was set in 1974 (so not 1975 or 1976), and it was cloudy then. Last night's episode was based around the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper and it reminded me how thousands of women rang up to say it could be a man they knew. Going by the evidence, I guess most of these must have been married to policemen. I can't help wondering how the West Yorkshire force are taking the news that they were inept, corrupt and murderous - or if they are seeing this all as poetic license in the name of art.

Eastenders: 12 March 2009

Amidst all the now usual surreal storylines, where Ian has to make friends with Tanya and ends up groping her and Jane looks set to have yet another affair (but who can blame her?), Billy's realisation that Honey doesn't want him anymore was actually moving. I think they made a bit too much about his adored shrine, though, as its only been in place for about two weeks so he can't be that attached to it. I just wish he could be given at least a shred of happiness after years of losing out to everyone else. Perhaps he could find a fiver in the square; at least that might cheer him (and us) up for a while.

Coronation Street: 9 March 2009

Yesterday, the best circus act was in town for one night only - hope you all rolled up, rolled up to see the incredible Imploding Family Platt. One secret after another was thrown about like an insult and it was like pass the parcel at one point (parcel bomb though) as each one tried to top the other. Bliss.

Meanwhile Blanche and little Simon continue to upstage the rest of the Barlows. Blanche has easily the best, campest lines and even when she is innocently reading a magazine she gets to exclaim about somebody's nasty gash. What with references to Howard's Way and Ken's guilty-looking face, this was almost as good as the Platt meltdown. I hope the writers will keep David and Gail locked in this bizarre relationship until he's at least fifty to prove hell really is other people. 

Dancing on Ice Week 9: 8 March 2009

It's getting closer to the final and Colleen is still in the running. Last night, the skate-off was between Blue Peter Zoe and Jessica, and Jessica got sent home. Both were told they shouldn't have been in the last two, implying Colleen should have been, but the ghosts of John Sergeant and Todd Carty mean they can't be TOO cruel to the underdog.