Five days to go

 Till the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics

The cliches

 Tonight sees the final of the European Football championship. England play Spain. Her are the kind of headlines to expect.

If England win elect Francis Drake references.

Demands for the referee to be burnt at the stake for any contersial decisions

If England narrowly lose, the phase brave boys will be used.

After the bell

 Today is General Election day in the UK. Voting stops at 10 pm. TV  channels will then broadcast an exit poll that will make a forecast of the forthcoming result. However there are Times when the pool base been wrong. In 1992 it predicted that there would be an hung parliament but instead there was as Conservative majority. We just have to see what tonight brings.

Permisson not given Jim

 Noted filmmaker James Cameron has been refused permission to build a new studio complex in England. The Aliens director plans were refused on environment grounds.

John is not returning

 It has been announced that John Nettles will not be doing a cameo appearance in the new version of Bergerac. The show that ran from 1981to 1991 is being rebooted by UKTV. Unlike the original this version rather being made in Jersey but in Devon.

Covering the games

 The BBC has announced details of it's coverage the forthcoming Summer Olympics being held in Paris. BBC 1 and BBC 2 will share coverage through our the 16 says of the games with I-player supplement. The Games start at the end of July.

Donald's starting points

 The sad news of the death of the actor Donald Sutherland has seen artic!as that focus on his cinema work with such  diverse films as The Dirty Dozen, National Lampoon's Animal House and Ordinary People. It is easy to forget that most of his early career was spent in the UK. He did some TV work. Here are two examples. The Avengers episode The Superlative Seven has  Donald playing a deadly game with a group of killers including Charlotte Rampling as a female gunslinger and Brian as a master of killing. He is also appeared in The Saint episode Escape Route which was directed by the ship's star Roger Moore, it also featured Jean Marsh who Sutherland to go appear in the  film The Eagle Has  Landed.

Donald Sutherland R. I. P.