Not quite as catchy, that was the original title for the event that the BBC stages every year, but it was scrubbed by one of the cameramen and well it seems to have stuck. I spent my Friday night in, choosing to actually watch the television for once, if only for the far too short Doctor Who special, which I quite liked as it goes. Methinks that could have made for quite an interesting episode in it’s own right, instead for just charity but hey ho, those are the breaks.

Mind you I still think they would do well to bring back Christopher Eccleston for a crossover as he was a great doctor, bitter and sad. With Billy Piper, actually that would be a great watch.

But enough of that, I watched Children in Need and well despite the fact that they raise millions for children in the UK suffering through all sorts of conditions and problems, and that itself is fantastic, I only really sat there thinking one thing:

It’s one big advert.

So many companies were thanked, it only made me feel like the companies did it only to shoehorn their way onto the BBC for a bit of advertising. Oh how great are we? BTW we do this…. Some bands clearly there to plug their tour (cough, Boyzone) and I guess now it is a sign that I have become so disenfranchised with what we see in the media in terms of what people do, that I will see bad in everything and put it down. There is truth there I know, but for once, why can’t I accept that the whole thing was for good?

Mind you, the whole programmed smelled a wee bit samey for me. The cast of Eastenders always sing something, the news readers once again look like rejects from the Rocky Horror picture show and for once, just bloody once, can we not have Greese show up.

How much more can people listen to that over and over again? But hey, it appears I am only one of 7 people in Britain who can’t stand that musical and wish for it to be buried in some unholy place, that not even the Time Team of 200 years from now would dare to tread.

Fair play, the fact they had Hotel Babylon on if only to rip the mickey out of it and get a lorry load of old stars shoehorned onto the TV to make the adults go “I know them, I’ll give money” was a bonus. That surely means we are in for another series of that hotel adult entertainment which goes from silly to sex all the space of 30 seconds. Nice.

So I guess, it will all be the same, next time next year. Keep it up good people, but maybe think of something new? Like Parrots riding bicycles….