Charles on… anything that comes along

Doctor Who - terrific, though hasn’t Russell T Grant heard of Douglas Adams? Starship Titanic was a wonderful game - one of the very few I’ve bothered to play all the way to both of its alternative ends. We liked it. Kylie looked like the botox had worn off somewhere back at Alpha Centauri.

Extras - incredibly brave of Ricky Gervais to make his character first so horrible, and then to get rid of him. (He has got rid of him, right? Not coming back for another Christmas special.) And used Doctor Who and all that bunch in it as well to, apparently, show his disdain. Except you can never take anything in Extras at anything like face value.

Coronation Street - (yes, we watch it, OK?) Kevin the mechanic beats up wotsisname who is found out to be two-timing Fizz. Um, that’s your Christmas big show? Colour me unimpressed. Still wonderfully watchable, but that was like any week.

To The Manor Born - the 1970s were better in the 1970s, I think. The laugh track, or the audience, should have been removed. Like they do in the Office and Extras and Lead Balloon and pretty much any modern sitcom. Laugh tracks and studio audiences have become outmoded; we know they’re artificial (though we tolerate them in game shows - I guess you need them because they’re live and spontaneous and they’re really there). Peter Bowles has aged really well..

Catherine Tate show - another killing off. Mostly good, though fewer characters than before. Odd, that.

Hmm, seems to be a lot of BBC there.

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