With the BBC Trust giving their verdict on the Ross/Brand furore, they made a few fair points although what really irritated me was when Michael Lyons said that the show "shouldn't have been recorded".
That's just a bullshit statement as you wouldn't be able to predict what would happen in the show prior to recording although given that Head of Specialist Music David Barber and Controller Lesley Douglas didn't listen to the offending parts of the programme before broadcast it probably highlights why senior executives at Auntie aren't doing their job properly.
Tonight's exploits in the jungle involved a bit of aggro over Timmy Mallett's over the top laughter at Robert Kilroy Silk's trial. Whilst he may have overdone it, it's more or less what you'd expect from someone with such a crazy personality.
Joe Swash managed to win the first "Bush Battle" which has resulted in him being excused from the first vote-off next week whilst taking part in tomorrow's Bushtucker Trial "Holy Moly" is a very deserving David Van Day.
However I'm pretty certain he'll do rather well.
The 1983 programme which followed was your bog standard show involving acts from back in the day reuniting to perform their past hits although some of the performances weren't too bad, such as Heaven 17 performing "Temptation" and I could finally make sense of the chorus as they didn't have Carol Kenyon singing with them. There was also a superb performance by Tony Hadley and a live band and a superb version of what I reckon is a very overplayed track, that being "True" which was a great finale to the show.
There were a few other odd moments such as Nik Kershaw which had me thinking during the song "who does he remind me of?". It turned out that he bares an almost exact resemblance to Gary Glitter in his current state which is ironic as Nik used to be known as one of the shortest men in pop throughout the 1980s.
I was also disapointed that Paul Young performed "Wherever I Lay My Hat" rather than "Love Of The Common People" or even better "Come Back And Stay", the latter of which was the final record to be played on Leicestershire's Centre Radio before it went bust, the first ILR station to do so.
It had only been on air for two years launching with a certain Timmy Mallett as it's breakfast presenter who was sacked after six weeks, although we all know who had the last laugh. Or in his case one too many laughs.
I followed this by catching up with this weeks editions of Buzzcocks and HIGNFY on iPlayer.
Buzzcocks wasn't at it's best due to Simon constantly plugging the Stereophonics Best Of album due to Kelly Jones being a guest, and the rather ridiculous jokes about Craig David's "obsession" with rabbits.
It was good to hear EWF's "September" featured in the intros round which surprisingly I didn't get until they revealed the answer and the jokes about Tess Daly on SCD were more or less spot on.
Even Natasha Kaplinsky had more personality than her when she covered in the first half of series 2 when Tess had her first baby.
HIGNFY was slightly funnier however with Frank Skinner taking a bit of ribbing for being in Paul Merton's place, especially with the joke about him finding out he was on the show after the end credits. They also made jokes about John Seargent, and the fact that Hitler really did have just one testicle.
I'm hoping Paul recovers and makes a return soon although Frank wasn't that bad.
With "Live At The Apollo" starting next week featuring Dara O'Briain and Frankie Boyle, they'll be truly decent comedy back on our screens.
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