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Yeah, we know were not meant to be a music blog, but this is really good. Its the (edited) video for the new Babybird single, directed by Johnny Depp (you know, him off Benny & Joon). Its a great video, and hey, an utterly brilliant song too, packed with all the swirling wordplay weve come to associate with Stephen Jones and his special songwriting pen.

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A lot of people seem to be agreeing with us on the whole Mark Thompson hacking off the BBCs minority interest limbs affair, going by the way the blogs hit counter has gone up over the last few days. Thats a bit of a shame in a way, because weve completely changed our minds now. Like many of you, wed assumed that closing BBC 6 Music and the BBC Asian Network in order to get a few more hours of drama on Sunday nights was a daft move. That was before we saw a leaked copy of the Christmas Radio Times for December 2010. The things that the BBC have in store for us are so special, they just couldnt wait to tell us all about it, apparently.

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Another aspect of the BBC cuts announced today is that, as expected, BBC Worldwide is likely to lose control of magazines such as Top Gear and the Radio Times. Of course, we remember the days when BBC Worldwide used to announce new projects frequently, no matter whether theyd be profitable or not. One such example we can EXCLUSIVELY reveal here.

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Yes, yes. Weve spent a lot of time lately trying (forlornly, as it seems) to win everyone around to the brilliance of Craig Creg Ferguson Fergusons marvellous Late Late Show on CBS. But here, right here, is how far hes prepared to take things. Hes not just content with fucking with the concept of TIME ITSELF (several of his recent shows have toyed with the concept of structure, putting the denouement right at the start of his talk shows, or saying wow, what a great show weve got for you tonight, see you after the break! right at the end of his timeslot). This week, he decided to tweak the nipples of CBS to a PSI so tight he could spend an entire episode of his chat show interviewing just one guest, Stephen Fry (who, for some unfathomable reason, isnt a household name to US citizens. Why, many of them have probably never even seen Happy Families), without an audience AT ALL And here, presuming CBS havent killed those involved, is it.

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Well, we now know what we want for Christmas.

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Hello to all the people whove visited here from the link on UK Resistance. This might not be the best update to try and judge the worth of the blog as a whole, because were going to spend an update thrashing around frantically in the waters of global politics. Were normally more interesting probably isnt the right word. Sarcastic would be closer. Anyway, pull up a chair, and please think twice before leaving a comment saying how we dont know anything. We already know that.

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Mainly because were a bit annoying, we love it when a television series makes you do a bit of mental legwork before you can properly appreciate it. Quite often, its obvious when this is happening for example, every other person on the web seems to be going on about The Wire, and how you need to sit through about six hours of it before you can really begin to enjoy it, as if its an Xbox 360 game where you need to unlock the good levels by playing through a load of infuriating ones first. But when it comes to Lost (not to be confused with the 2001 Channel Four reality-series-cum-gameshow, of course), it really seemed like it was a colourful exciting caper that everyone could enjoy right from the off. The first episode attracted a huge 8.5 million viewers in the UK, despite it being promoted via a slightly annoying trailer specially shot for UK cinemas, which saw the Lost characters gyrating artistically to a gratingly pretentious cast voiceover (one of us is a killer, one of us is a cop [] one of us is a sinner, one of us is a saint [] all of us are Lost), giving the impression of the series being the most expensive Calvin Klein commercial ever. Since then, viewing figures have remained high (for an imported series), with it currently the most-watched show on Sky1 admittedly on a figure well down on the first season, but still extraordinarily high for Sky1, with 1.4 million tuning in for the start of the final season. Even in this multidigital age, its still rare for a programme on Sky1 to get more than a million viewers, and Lost smashed that barrier quite comprehensively.

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Go, Team Venture!

Alongside BBC Four, our favourite new TV channel of the decade must surely be Adult Swim, an offshoot of Cartoon Network in the US. Originally a twice-weekly programming strand shown at night on the channel from 2001, it became a standalone channel of its own in 2005. In the UK (which briefly had its own equivalent, CNX*), Adult Swim took up a nightly block of programming on Bravo between 2006 and 2008, and played host to many of the same programmes as its US counterpart, with the occasional repeated UK animation, such as Modern Toss. Anyway, Adult Swim has been the source of many of our favourite programmes of the 00s, such as Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Sealab 2021 and Frisky Dingo from slightly earlier in our rundown.

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Jambo, hepcats!

You know, sometimes we find ourselves racked with self-doubt. Surely it cant be the case were completely right about everything, especially when we pick up on telly programmes that dont get broadcast in the UK, and we get all overexcited about how good they are so we look clever for even knowing about them. After all, weve spent a huge amount of time banging on about NEWStopia and the work of Shaun Micallef in general, but what if thats just our subconscious desperately trying to compensate for the way we were so roundly mocked for telling everyone about this great new comedian wed discovered in 2007 called Bill Hicks. What if NEWStopia actually isnt that good? We might just have to re-watch the entire first series in order to check. So, until we do that, heres a picture of some music.

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