The Madness of King George W I was have a flick through The Guardian Guide, having shelved my Sun buying habits momentarily, to see if there was anything good on tele in the coming week. I was to be mightly dissapointed. I'm not surprised that overpaid TV execs worry about falling audiences for their programmes. The size of audience for BBC 1 and ITV has been falling for decades even before the multi channel revolution. I say the solution is to stop giving us mind numbing pap to watch and we'll think about watching more TV.

Anyway something caught my eye. Firstly just after 7 on Channel 4 they are showing The Madness of King George. This is a really fine film which I have seen a couple of times before. Really it should be The Madness of King George III but the American audience would think that they had missed the first two films and not go and see it. Seriously that's why they changed it. The thing is it was first produced in 1994 so why are they showing it now. Personally I cannot think of any modern parralell of a leader going by the name of George who gets A+ when taking the bonkers test. I just can't think what Channel 4 are up to.  ¶ 4:15 pm