#bbc tv

Instantly one of my favourite shows of all time, amazing anthology. Episodes often left me staring at the wall and there's barely an outright dud in the 55 episodes...

Toyah (Songs and Acting)

"Green Lanterns"

"Cerebral Entropy In The Age Of Fox News"

Whilst I relatively enjoyed JONATHAN CREEK, David Renwick's writing on the show was really fucking terrible. Being an established BBC schmoozer who knew (a) what he could get away with (with his mates who commissioned the series) and (b) what would appeal to the just-above-the-level-of-soap audiences. The thoroughly forced nature of everything and the use of 'comedy' to excuse appalling situations really grated, right from the start. A complete wince session all the way. But it STILL managed to be better than 90% of everything else the BBC waste public money on.

And it had some very good moments. Just moments, unfortunately, rather than hours, considering some of the episodes were two hours (too) long. Usually nothing to do with the alleged plots of these shows, just deft asides. Like the two above.

Jo & Kush (both from Liverpool UK) Winners of the 2026 BBC's Race Across the World and the £20,000 Prize. in which five teams of two race each other to reach various checkpoints in the shortest possible time over a 50 day journey...with only a limited amount of cash no bank cards or phones makes the journey difficult…

Jo Diop and Kush Burman both aged 19, the pair were the youngest competitors in the 12,000km BBC TV adventure from Italy to Mongolia - taken without mobiles phones and on a strict budget and using only public transport (No Flights)

The friends have said they will use their shared £20,000 prize to invest in getting on the property ladder after both their mums had been renting.

Mr Ratcliffe, the headmaster of the school they attended in Liverpool, described the former students as "magnificent, young gentlemen", adding that "for both boys behind the scenes there's a mum who has sweated blood and given tears to make sure that they get everything they and other children in their families need".

"I think those mums deserve an enormous amount of credit and there's a lot for us all to learn from that kind of family unit."

The pair were praised by viewers for their mutual support during the two-month trip, which showed Kush's struggles after his much-loved stepdad Matt took his own life during the coronavirus lockdown.

Before the journey, Kush said he could get "very anxious" and viewers saw Jo provide space for him to decompress and - on at least one occasion - stay awake the night to let his friend get things off his chest.

Their support for each other throughout the journey was an example to us all...

The pair have been widely praised for their openness, including by politicians promoting healthy masculinity, with a former government minster saying: "There are nasty influencers we need to worry about, but men and boys need to see this....