Cat's Cradle anyone?

Television at Christmas. There’s a rum thing. You would think that the march of progress would have reached the Television Station Authority by now. That TSA1 and TSA2 would come up with some new offerings for us all instead of The Flying Nanny and Celebrity Generation Grime.

They know we won’t complain – that’s the reason. We are too full of cheap sherry and expensive mints to raise any kind of popular front against them. Perhaps instead we should choose not to watch – just switch off altogether.

Could you survive the Yuletide ordeal without such crumbs of comfort as Ready Steady Burnt, or Coronation Square being spewed forth from your surround-sound, home cinema complex?

Well I'm going to try.

With my telly having been made by Lada in the 70's, I think I might have to...

Sergei