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We went to Felixstowe on Saturday. We’d been before, but only to Languard Fort; this time we walked along the sea front behind the beach huts as far as the sea defences, which curve out into the sea like […]

Maxine, the Awards’ award
Last night was the Awards. It always coincides with the Expo, so I spent the morning stuffing bags, slipping discount cards into magazines and eating Kettle Chips. At two we took a taxi to the Hurlingham Club to rehearse, and put programmes on the tables and bags of space dust under the […]

Apart from selling off Television Centre, the BBC is set to make 1800 staff redundant in its effort to plug a £2bn funding gap. It’ll be the invisibles who disappear, of course: not the big names.
But when you look at the numbers, that makes sense. You could argue that Jonathan Ross should go, on account […]

Hiding a geocache is no easy task.
You have to find somewhere interesting, nowhere near another cache, secluded enough to not be stumbled upon by accident and not on private land. And not only do you have to do all that; you also have to prove it to the moderators.
So - as I say - not […]

I daresay there was upset when the BBC moved our of Alexandra Palace, as there will be when it hands over the keys to Television Centre. To plug a £2bn funding hole it’s selling the iconic building that it’s occupied for the last half century.
What will happen then remains to be seen. It’s a prime […]

Richard and Judy were first, claiming blissful ignorance when their Channel 4 show was caught making money from callers who would never make it to air.
Jo Wiley was equally unaware when a ‘competition winner’ on her show turned out to be a member of staff, despite the segment in question being pre-recorded.
And now Ant and […]

After months of the BBC’s minor misdemeanours being plastered all over the papers, they have been put into sharp relief by lurid stories of far more serious goings-on at ITV.
The independent broadcaster, it seems, made £7.8 million from over 8 million viewers by claiming to have entered them into premium-rate competitions they had no chance […]

The plot is starting to get a little bit rough around the edges. Nothing serious, but it could do with a little tidy-up, which is proving difficult now that the nights are drawing in. You can’t very well be rooting up your carrots or trimming back the wildest leaves on your cabbages in the dark […]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows marked the ultimate conclusion of JK Rowling’s wizarding epic.  She promised it would bring Harry’s journey to a logical conclusion, and largely it does.
The seventh book in the series, it is more than a single story, for while it could conceivably be read in isolation the assumption must […]

If you didn’t see White Diamond last night, you missed it. In the cinema at least. It was a one-night-only showing of the film that documents Kylie’s return to the stage after winning her fight against breast cancer. It will be out on DVD in time for Christmas.
In the two hours it took to tell […]