The new series of Only Connect starts tonight BBC4 at 8.30. Same format as the previous series.

8 teams in the first round of 4 matches. The 4 winners go through to the second round.

The 4 losers have another chance against another loser, the 2 winners go through to the second round, the 2 losers are eliminated.

So 6 teams go through to round 2. The 4 winners who won without losing play another outright winner. The 2 winners go through to the semi-finals. The 2 losers plus the 2 winners who had lost 1 first round match but won the 2nd first round match play another match and the 2 winners also go through to the semi-finals.

The semi-finals and finals are straight knockout matches.

Victoria Coren Mitchell doesn't understand this new process so what chance do we

OMG! I'm trying to catch up with The Young Montalbano BBC4 9.00pm Saturdays. I'm kicking out Eric from True Blood for this guy now.  

 

 

 Brilliant - I did not know.

 

Is the Lasletts daughter actually a man who is soon to be or already a woman?

 

When they answered the wall, she stood two feet taller than her Dad and Brother, and she had the frame of a rugby player?

 

Anyone seen it?

Yeah...

All I'll say is: thank goodness it wasn't just me...

And that was exactly how it was!

It was! Crossed with The Hustle imo. I'm really enjoying it. 

I've also just discovered I can get the Universal Channel (Virgin Media 137). Graceland might be worth a look. (I don't think it has anything to do with Elvis). Premiss is a group of undercover agents from various US law enforcement agencies live together in a beach house. Mike Warren is assigned to the house as his first FBI job. Pilot episode tonight. 

You love the young Montalbano ...so do I .I'm catching up on how he met Livia and MImi  the older one Is far more to my taste though he has these sort of bandy legs ,which I find rather attractive and a bald head ..I've taped most of them ..and the house near the beach I love ...I'm hoping this leads on to another series ...always watch BBC4 Saturdays ,they used to repeat mid-week but seem to have stopped 

Montalbano as he Is now

                                          

and Mimi

                                     

                             

The Great Hip Hop Hoax.

 

BBC2 at 9  

Looking forward to that velvet 

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho...ilibil-n-Brains.html

 

 

Recording it  

Heard the story on the radio a while ago - sounds a good laugh  

 

I've started watching Devious Maids  (from the writer of Desperate Housewives)   Same sort of nonsense, but I'm already hooked.

Carol Wright in TOWIE has the same mugs as me.

A heads-up for anyone still following "Orphan Black":

Be aware that the last 4 episodes are to be shown as double-episodes tomorrow and next Friday. The BBC3 broadcasts still start at 9pm but will finish at 10.30pm both Fridays...

Thanks for that Eugene... the way it's repeated has made me lose track of the series. 

Several heads-up:

1) It's the Only Connect: Children in Need Special at 8.30pm tonight (Monday) on BBC4! Claire Balding, Clive Anderson and Simon Jenkins vs Alice Arnold, Konnie Huq and John Finnermore.

 

2) I've already mentioned it elsewhere, but it's also the final episode of Under the Dome tonight at 10pm on C5.

 

3) The 3rd and final series of Borgen starts on Saturday (I'll post again on this closer to the date).

Thanks for the heads up, Eugene. All set to record Borgen.

For anyone interested in the Farm series ( Victorian, Edwardian , WW2 etc.) there is a new series starting this Wednesday on BBC 2 ... The Tudor Monastry Farm .

Oooh brilliant, thanks Bazzer 

I really enjoy those shows... this should be interesting. I recently read Wolf Hall and Bring Up the bodies which contain fascinating descriptions of the foods in Tudor times.

Yes, I love them too Rosie And this one should be really interesting , cos I too love the Tudor era  

 Can't wait... something to look forward to