An alrightish sort of night yesterday where after the X-Factor I continued my trawl through Earth Wind and Fire's back catalogue with their 1974 album "Open Our Eyes".
A not too bad album overall with stand out tunes including the title track, Devotion, and Caribou.
I followed this by watching a couple of comedy panel games on catch-up that I haven't seen on televsion this week. These included the latest episode of 8 Out Of 10 Cats which provided a few laughs, and ITV2' s "Celebrity Juice" with Keith Lemon, AKA Leigh Francis, AKA "that idiot off of 'Bo Selecta'". Although I think 'idiot' is too polite a word.
Most of the jokes were pretty juvenile to the point of unfunny as you would expect from Francis, but the programme's saving grace were it's team captains Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby, and their guests including Dermot O'Leary.
One of Dermot's comments taking the mickey out of contestants with sob stories on The X Factor didn't go down well with some, resulting in one of the show's contestants complaining to a newspaper about what he had said, along the lines of "I don't care if you have a dead relative" etc.
However Dermot being the down to earth guy at heart did send an apology to the contestant after the show was transmitted.
Dermot's on again tonight where they reveal who's going to be taking part in the live studio shows although the whole process is strung out quite a bit in one show as proven in previous series. I may follow that with the X-Tra Factor on ITV Catch Up which as far as I'm concerned wouldn't really be the same without Holly presenting.
Definitely the best thing she's ever presented and both her and the style of show should transfer to the main X-Factor programme on ITV1 just to make it more fresh and irreverent.
Then again it appears 7 million viewers can't be wrong although if they actually watched the X-Tra Factor, they would find it to be a lot more than just a supplementary show.
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