TV TV Cream looks at programmes for schools and colleges Watch! , to take one of the fondest-remembered examples, provided junior pupils ...

Travel The full text of Michael Palin's 'Sahara' is online ; although it was a cut above other travel shows on television it l...

News I've been wondering of late why I don't write about the news here. Myra Hindley died tonight and UK firemen have just retur...

Who The story of ‘Shada’ is legendary in Doctor Who circles. It was to be the classic end of Season Seventeen, and Douglas Adams great sw...

Books Sometimes authors tell the truth about how they decided upon the idea for their new book: Richard Morgan in Slate Magazine : It sta...

Competition This month's competition is a bit different and in the mold of the kind of thing they used to run on Blue Peter. I got th...

Music For anyone in the area, the sublime Eva Katzler will be playing the Jazz7 on Sunday 17th November 2002. It's at HUGO'S, ...

Hello I have noticed that I've recently had a massive increase in my readership over the past few weeks. Hello to all you new readers...

Science? " Close , But No Cigar"

Internet I haven't been able to find Yahoo! Internet Life for months, to the extent that I ordered a folder at WH Smith last week. A ...

People Joshua Jackson arrested. Great photo .

Who For the interested, BBC7 's content has been launched. As Ananova reports : "It will also include shows which went on to bec...

Life I haven't been too happy the last couple of days. The reasons for my unhappiness are in the centre of the stuff which I can'...

Rest My unofficial Cameron Crowe retrospective continued tonight with 'Jerry Maguire'. For ages something bothered me about one o...

Writing Watching 'untitled' the other night I wondered whether Lester Bangs ever tutored Cameron Crowe on his writing style as wel...

TV Some review of last night's Have I Got News For You is up at Off The Telly . Fortnight to go until the next episode. Who do we ...

The Press After the theatre hostage crisis in Moscow, the Russian Government's Press Ministry has drafted stricter guidelines for jou...

Quiz! Just took the ' The 60 seconds Premier Squadulator ' which is supposed to guess which soccer team you support: "You...

Reality Check Five reasons why I'm visiting an alternate reality... (1) Everton are fourth in the Football League above Manchester ...

My first review for Off The Telly, way back in 2002, was of the first guest celebrity edition of HIGFY, a week after Paul Merton provided ...