Front page of the Sun today:

DON'T BLOW YOURSELF UP

There are people who need to be told this.

This letter is printed in the most recent Radio Times.

SUNDAY NIGHT IS...LEARNING NIGHT?

What on earth is the BBC doing to my mind? Sunday is the only day that I like to just sit and watch TV, perhaps with a drink or two. Previously I have enjoyed some great BBC dramas, such as Pride and Prejudice and Last of the Blonde Bombshells, and comedy dramas including Hamish Macbeth and Ballykissangel.
I want to be entertained on a Sunday evening, not educated. Sunday is not the day for Professor Winston's Superhuman or Panorama. It's bad enough that the schedules are changing to give us news at ten - some of us prefer it at nine!
Please go back to the usual type of Sunday-evening programmes.

Fiona Atkins
Crail, Fife

People like this really get on my tits. I mean, god forbid that you might actually learn something from watching television. Why bother with intelligent programming at all when you can have something the quality of HAMISH MACBETH or sodding BALLYKISSANGEL???

Do these kind of people really dictate our viewing habits?

And why do station announcers refer to us as 'customers' not 'passengers'?

>Some of the stories/articles I noticed in my fellow passengers' newspapers on the train this morning:
>
>"Are Ant&Dec the new Morecambe&Wise?" (The Sun)

No

>"Rory's Sick Joke" (The Express)

There's an "A" missing there. I assume McGrath. Or Bremner.

>"BBC: Anne is our strongest link" (The Express)

No

Hope that's cleared things up.

why stop madness? Keeps pyschiatrists off the streets?

That Rory Bremner story is scary. It was in the Guardian too.
He's caused "controversy" (ie publicity) by depicting the late Princess Of All Our Hearts in ghost form in his new TV special.
Christ. How long will this go on? She died about a hundred years ago. Can we still not talk about that pudding-headed sloane clothes-horse in anything other than hushed tones?

That Rory Bremner story is scary. It was in the Guardian too.
He's caused "controversy" (ie publicity) by depicting the late Princess Of All Our Hearts in ghost form in his new TV special.
Christ. How long will this go on? She died about a hundred years ago. Can we still not talk about that pudding-headed sloane clothes-horse in anything other than hushed tones?

>That Rory Bremner story is scary. It was in the Guardian too.
>He's caused "controversy" (ie publicity) by depicting the late Princess Of All Our Hearts in ghost form in his new TV special.
>Christ. How long will this go on? She died about a hundred years ago. Can we still not talk about that pudding-headed sloane clothes-horse in anything other than hushed tones?

Still won't be funny though. Bremner is terminally pointless. ("Look at me. I do politics. I am therefore important.") His programme should be called "Rory Bremner - Why?"

And, surprisingly, there's already a ghost Diana in the Windsor Tapestry on the 11OCS.

Have they had any complaints about that?

No.

Which I think everyone was surprised by. Considering the Windsor Tapestry happens to be one of the most childishly offensive things ever broadcast on television.

Looks nice though.

Are you for or against it, then?

>Which I think everyone was surprised by. Considering the Windsor Tapestry happens to be one of the most childishly offensive things ever broadcast on television.

It was my favourite bit when I caught an 11ocs last week. Probably because it reminded me of South Park a little bit, but it *was* funny anyway.

There ya go, somebody not in its employ said something nice about the show on this forum.

Which is odd, because someone IN its employed dared speak out against it. Biting the hand that feeds, eh "Bit"? Although for me, it's not its childish offensiveness that's the main problem, it's the fact that the writers face the same problem as "Spitting Image" did all those years ago � there's only really one joke per Royal character, and once you've trotted it out this week, there's nothing else to do but... trot it out again. "Oh, Philleep..." (Yawn.)

The other problem is that having a go at the Royal Family is actually treason, and everyoine involved should rightfully be beheaded. The constant danger of this inevitably affects script quality. That's why we don't get good anti-royalist satire in this country.

That Tapestry thing is OK, actually.