feeling listless

TV The new TV Cream-up is out and this month they're counting down the fifty movers and shakers in their opinion. For once this is an example of credit where it's due -- take the section about Roly Keating the producer of BBC4:

"However, under Keating the channel has forged ahead mapping out a clear path through that tricky terrain where old fashioned stoical eighties era BBC2 programmes of genuine cultural worth meet dynamic, crowd-pleasing narratives. Witness The National Trust - which, with quotes such as "We've bought three houses and now we've got to buy another one so that Ringo doesn't feel left out" - could have been gold-era Cutting Edge, or any single edition of the sublime Time Shift. Taking on and completing The Falklands Play was pretty damn good in itself, prefacing it with a documentary that included Bill Cotton and Michael Grade explaining why it was actually rather crap is above and beyond."

It didn't know that this man created The Late Show but it makes perfect sense, the edge which infused that programme runs raggety through this channel. And in fact the the reruns of BBC4's programming post Newsnight on BBC2 they've effectively brought a version of that programme back. TVCream-up's currancy is also undimmed with the noting of Mr Ecclestone as the new Doctor. Still on a high after hearing that news. Why do I get the shocking feeling that someone like Bille Piper's going to end up playing the companion?