Oh yes. Mechannibals it’s on BBC on Sundays. It’s a little like scrapheap but instead of a scrapheap they get they’re own houses. The winners get all the stuff they trash replaced and the losers get a toolbox to fix it. The fact that it’s an obvious copy doesn’t really irritate me. It’s more the fact that it’s a bad copy.

The good thing about Scrapheap is that it’s big. People use big engines to do some really impressive stuff and there’s lots of noise and mess etc. Mechannibals is lame by comparison and the things that get made, generally, don’t work. The most disturbing this about this program is the contestants. The blokes are generally a bit wierd (and probably bitter that they aren’t good enough to go on Scrapheap). Also at least once per episode the wives generally break down in tears and look like they’re seriously considering divorce.

“One of the arguments used before the broadcast was that the stage show had not been attacked for blasphemy.

“My answer, after watching the show, is that anyone likely to pursue a case for blasphemy would not have remained in the theatre long enough to witness it.”

And of course that naturally doesn’t apply to TV does it. I myself find it very difficult to change the channel using the gigantic, monsterous, cumbersome piece of plastic that is a remote control. Obviously that’s the only reason I watched such ‘deviant’ behaviour.

I admit there might be a few arguments for the ‘well it shouldn’t have been shown on TV’ despite it’s run in the West End, but not being able to stop watching it shouldn’t be one of them

He apparently worked on a program called ‘Between the Ears’ – make up your own punchline.

I quite liked it. I’m not sure I’d give it rave reviews but it was very enjoyable and funny. I think the think that I disliked the most was the fact that it was an opera rather than a musical so sometimes words were difficult to understand. Having said this I actually also like the fact that it’s an opera and it would have been far worse as a musical. There’s Double Think for you (almost).

In other news most of Cumbria is under water. Andrea really chose the wrong week to visit her family. No electricity, no water (supply, far to much of the other type of water). Added to which she had to change 5 times and take both trains and buses to get home and still ended up 45 minutes drive from her house. It’s almost funny. I shall have to mock later.