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So, The Guardian reports creditable claims that an employee from the News of the World hacked into, and deleted messages from, the voicemail of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler in 2002, leading to false hope for her parents that she was still alive, and misleading the police investigation at the time. That’s a pretty big story, and unquestionably a much bigger scandal than the kind of "FAMOUS MAN OFF TELLY OR FOOTBALL SAYS OR DOES SOMETHING A BIT CONTROVERSIAL" thing that would cover an entire wall of a newsagent like bilious wallpaper.

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With an Alan Partridge film in the works, the character has come a long way from presenting the sports on Radio 4’s On The Hour. It seems that with this, In The Loop and the output of Sasha Baron Cohen (Reader’s voice: "But those films are years apart!"), it seems like the concept of British comedy spin-off movies is back. After grinding to a halt after mid-80s movies like Morons From Outer Space, Whoops Apocalypse, Bloodbath At The House of Death and The Boys in Blue all proved to be commercial flops, the concept went into near hibernation for a couple of decades, twitching a leg occasionally to let out celluloid farts such as Guest House Paradiso. We can’t help but feel that’s a bit of a shame, as it deprived cinemagoers of the following potential comedy offshoots we’ve just thought up. (Reader’s voice: "Hang on, what about Stella Street, Kevin & Perry Go Large, The League of Gentleman Apocalypse…")

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Our new favourite website ever (for this week) has to be Coverbrowser. Home to over 450,000 front covers of books, comics and magazines from years gone by, its a little bit like having your very own time machine. But one that is only able to visit newsstands. And only look at the front covers of the magazine, comic and book section of those newsstands, not buy any cool 1950s cigarettes or anything. In summary, its not that much like having a time machine after all, but anyway. Here are ten tremendous telly-related things on there:

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ADVERTS FOR SUPERMARKETS TELLING US HOW MUCH THEIR SAUSAGES COST

With thriftiness more important than ever, theres no reason why the Britons of space year 2011 shouldnt we be informed when 1p has been knocked off the price of a six-pack of Penguins. No reason at all.

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This is the point where we really, really starting phoning in our idea of an update every day.

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From the race for the 1944 US Presidential Election, a campaign film in support of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt bagging a second term. We really like it.

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1. Stilted performances by CEOs. The most well-known exponent of the art of advertising your own company would probably be Victor Kiam, whose Remington commercials made him a household name in the 1980s (and indeed, go-to reference for comedians looking to do material about rich American businessmen). His slick, presentational style was probably helped by him being from the USA, where enthusiastic owners of carpet warehouses or car showrooms plugging their stores in person have been a mainstay of commercial television since the year 1753 [sub please check].

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This is an Anglicised cover version of a song originally by American singer-satirist Peter Scott Peters, which casts an arched eyebrow over the 1960s threat of the western world being destroyed by atomic bombs.

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