grumpyf1

It’s fair to say that ‘the footy’ has decimated the TV schedules. Imagine if you could travel in time though, and watch TV from any era you wanted! As a TV-related year-hopper, being able to swirl back through the mists of time should be amazing. Clearly, going forwards isn’t an option – not because of any complicated space/time coefficient stuff, but based on the inescapable fact that TV is generally pretty terrible now, so the future only holds Celebrity Reality Kitten’s Big Brother’s Essex Jungle. Probably fronted by Bruce Forsyth. This will be immediately followed by 24 hours of every person that watched it sat on their sofa saying why they thought it was fab-u-lous, then a programme discussing why the people on their sofas are idiots. So, the past it is. Imagine your disappointment if you’d set the controls for TV heaven, but a problem with the time capacitor interface circuit (yes, I am making this up as I go along) meant you landed in 1996. Having run out of progra...

Damon Hill is joining Sky's F1 team. This pains me greatly. For possibly no other reason than the simple fact that I can't afford it, I don't like the fact the Sky will have all the F1 races live this year, whilst poor people will get half, and a whole bunch of extended highlights, on the BBC. Or less, in other words. As you know, they blagged Brundle and kidnapped Kravitz, but Damon? I'll let you in on a little secret here - he's still my favourite F1 driver. Battling his way into F1, working hard, remaining polite and refusing to bad-mouth anyone (even that pesky German chappie), dealing with the death of Senna and then finally winning a championship against his new team mate, Villeneueve, before getting shafted by Williams and winding up in an Arrows with the number 1 on the front. Being resolutely high-tech, I watched a video tonight (well, there was bugger all on the box) of the highlights of the BBC's coverage of the Japanese GP from '96, whe...