I spent the remainder of tonight watching It Takes Two from earlier today on iPlayer where they brought on Jonathan Beazley, the BBC's head of entertainment production to explain about what happened on last Saturday's programme and how the Grand Final for SCD would work out.
It turns out that viewers will be refunded for their calls, and at the start of the Grand Final the combined judges and viewers scores from last week will be revealed.
It also explained that in the main show itself , all three couples will perform three different dances and in the results show, one of the couples will be eliminated but not via a dance off, leaving the remaining two couples to fight it out for viewers votes and their votes alone will determine the winner of the series.
I must admit that I've never really liked the idea of the dance-off since it was introduced in the last series and although it gives me something to watch on a Sunday night, it all seems rather anti-climatic.
I'm definitely looking forward to seeing the final on Saturday and I hope everyone else at the holiday house will be up for it, as we normally watch the final results show each year at least.
Immediately after I went over to the Channel 4 website to make a start on watching "Get Your Act Together With Harvey Goldsmith" where in the first episode he focused on one of the main examples of a dying entertainment form, that being the working mens club.
The Live Aid empresario made a visit to The Deighton Working Mens Club in Huddersfield West Yorkshire where on his arrival it looked very similar to an episode of Phoenix Nights. Only in this case there were very few people in attendance and money was disapearing fast.
Harvey immediately asked them to make changes in his very sweary and aggressive manner which makes Gordon Ramsay look like Cheryl Cole.
After a visit to a succesfull working mens club in Birmingham who had turned their fortunes round in a similar way, the staff gradually began to make changes by organising a ladies night, which despite faliures with the music dissappearing, managed to be a success.
But Harvey wanted it to go even further and through this came a talent night for distinctive and wide ranging acts around the area to perform and who better to compere it than Dave Spikey.
One act that stood out was a young rock band called "The Hoover Dams" although entertainment booker Jimmy was split between them and a solo performer.
On Harvey's advice to keep the club going towards a new generation of customers, Jimmy went with The Hoover Dams to become the Club Entertainer of the year, allowing Harvey to leave the club with his head held up high.
Overall it proves that tradtional clubland still has plenty of shelflife, even in the wake of the death of Bernard Manning.
I'm definitely looking forward to the rest of the episodes and of course Harvey's less than succesfull dalliance with Big L 1395 which could easily be passed off as a sitcom.
And to finish with here's Russell Brand with that legendary West Ham chant as mentioned earlier today.
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