Barry and the lost lunchtime

 The death of famed comedy script writer Barry Cryer brings to mind a story he told about Graham Chapman in a documentary about Monty Python Flying Circus. The pair were working on scripts for a show and in Cryer's view were making good progress. However Chapman talked Cryer going to the pub for lunch. Cryer says he couldn't remember if he did any more work that day!

Boris faces the heat

 The Metropolitan police has announced that an  investigation will be held. Into parties held at no 10 Downing street during the pandemic lockdown of 2020. This is a very serious turn of events.

Boris, time is running out

 Boris Johnson has seen one of his MPs defect to Labour and another good him to resign a. So what happens next?

Novak is gone

 After much legal Novak Djokovic has been served from Australia due to his non vaccination status. It leaves a clear path for someone in this year Australian Open.

Awful quiz show answer of the day 10-01-2022

 On the recent edition of Mastermind a contestant was asked to name the late 1990s TV show about a Vampire private detective. The answer given was Columbo. The actual answer is Angel.

TV review - Toast of Tinseltown

 Starring Matt Berry

BBC2 10 P.M. Tuesday

Steven Toast is having anger control problems in the first episode of a new series that sees the character switch channels. But Matt Berry is funny as Toast. Highlights include Toast getting into argument with the author of a book he is doing an audio reading  for, attending anger management and having a fight with arch enemy Ray Purchase. A great set up for the rest of the series when Toast hits LA.

you can see the whole series on I-player

Best of Red Dwarf - the BBC years

 The ten best episodes of the show about a rag tag crew lost in space.

1. Backwards

The crew finds itself on an Earth that goes backwards. It ends up in a very unreal bar fight.

2. Parrell Universe

the crew finds themsleves in a gender reversed universe with a shock in store for one of them.

3. DNA

Kryten is turned into a human after the crew find a marooned spaceship. Attempts to turn him back into an Android have nasty side effects.

4. Justice

dimmer finds himself on trial for the disaster that befell the Red Dwarf. However more pressing matters turn up

5. Marooned

Lister and Rimmer find themselves standard on an icy planet try to survive the conditions and each other!.

6. Polymorph

The show's take on Alien. The guys have to survive a creature that feeds on emotions.

7. Gunmen of the Acoylpse

Starbug is heading for destruction and the only way the guys can survive is to enter a VR version of the wild west.

8._Back to Reality

after an attack by sea monsters the guys start to think they are not who they thought they were.

9._Thanks for the Meomary

Rimmer is depressed so Lister gives him his meomaries to cheer him up.

10. Queeg

Holly is replaced as ship computer and the guys don't like it.