GRRRR: Evan Davis, and others can you please stop recapping

Dragon's Den On the Telly, originally uploaded by Mupwangle.

You know on Dragons' Den, where the 'investors' "invest their own money", and the contestants "have to get all the money they asked for, or they leave with nothing". Yeah?

Yes so does everybody! It's been going for about four series now, the rules haven't changed, Sepp Blatter's not in charge, and they weren't complicated to start with. So why does the bloody narrator, BBC Economics Editor Evan Davis, tell us every five minutes?

It's because the programme makers think we're stupid. Every time you hear a factual programme on TV recap, they're patronising you.

(And on commercial TV - everytime they ask you to phone in with your opinion they're valuing your views at exactly the price of the call.)

GRRRR: Wasn't Comic Relief something to do with comedy?

Red nosed, originally uploaded by jenpen.

And charity too, of course.

Bit of a grumpy old man rant this one:

I appreciate the need for charity (although if people spent the same time and effort pressurising the government, long term solutions might be found, maybe), and if you're going to raise money and awareness having fun while you're at it is commendable.

The trades description people should be having a close look at the makers of Comic Relief does Fame Academy though. Week after week of actors, DJs and socialites singing fronted by Patrick Kielty is not comedy - unless it's very black and the joke's on us.

Bring back Cliff Richard and The Young Ones, bring back Theophilus P. Wildebeest, bring back Bobby Davro, anything.

If we raise enough money, can we not have it next time?