Blue Peter cut back to 2 shows a week

Well, I know, I didn't mean she was ten years old.



Well, it was just a one off. I watched it becuase I like those sorts of programmes, and it was good on the whole. There were some week parts, but it was mostly impressions of CBBC and other TV presenters.

That will please Mouse ( my cat) He has a little crush on Sox. I haven't broken the news to him yet that Sox is a boy.

No, I'm the teacher

didn't valerie singleton once interview Mrs Thatcher and ask her if she'd like to be prime minister

who's B Brush, Major or Blair

Here the OTHER BIG Q:

What it going to replace it?

Chucklevision!

Got a dim recollection that it was Lesley Judd who asked that question during her "In the Limelight" show?

I watched the 2 programmes this week about chidrens' TV from the 50s to the 90s. It was very good, and surprisingly the 4 children who were having a taste of the past actually enjoyed some of the old programmes. So it doesn't all have to be CGI (or even in colour) to capture their imagination.

There was also a good report by Gethin on what happens at TVC during the night. He wandered around chatting to those still working and visited TC7, N8 and N6 in time for Breakfast.

I don't think it's a bad thing going back to 2 a week, after all that's how it was for many years. Whenever I've caught it recently they seem to be struggling to fill the 4 or 5 a week they do now - they seem to have a lot of pop groups on these days for example.

It'll also mean going back to a more managable and stable number of presenters, a while back it seemed like they were getting a new one every few months

Apologies if this is threadjacking - does anybody have a copy of Gethins report?

It was Val in her interview programme "Val meets the VIP's", broadcast on 7 march 1973. Margret Thatcher was education minister at the time and Val asked her if she though there would ever be a woman MP.

The answer was

"I think it depends on who the person is. I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime. And I don't think it depends so much on whether it's a man Prime Minister or a woman Prime Minister as whether that person is the right person for the job at that time. And it's very difficult to foresee what may happen many, many years ahead."

Details here

Bring back Biddy Baxter

Don't go giving Justin Lee Collins ideas, now...