It appears I was slightly wrong when I said Heroes was starting on BBC2 next year. In fact it starts 25th July (which is next Wednesday) and is a double bill of episodes 1 and 2, starting at 9pm (episodes are 40 minutes each; no wonder the US Sci-Fi channel has to cut Doctor Who to fit in all the adverts).
Having now seen the season finale, all I can say is Enjoy.
The good news: BBC2 are finally continuing to show repeats of Farscape, starting with Season 3 Episode 1 this Saturday.
The bad news: It is at 2am
The good news: I’ve got Sky+
The good news: The last episode of Heroes is on this Monday on the Sci-Fi channel. I love this programme. One episode a couple of weeks ago was so tense, I had to stop watching for about 15 minutes to calm down.
The bad news: The last episode of Heroes is on this Monday on the Sci-Fi channel. No more Heroes 
The good news: It’s starting on BBC2 next year. I can watch them all again as see how the Heroes progress.
The good news: Following a comment on Hg’s blog I started watching Jeykll with episode 2. I liked it for all its faults.
The bad news: I’d never see episode 1 and its another program to have to watch on TV
The good news: The Harry Potter spell Torrentus Undisappartus allowed said episode to magically appear.
The good news: John Simm. Double thumbs up from me.
The bad news: Catherine Tate
The good news: erm …. Kylie ?
A bit late on this one as the series finished a few weeks ago, but I wanted to comment on Life on Mars.
So, was he mad, in a coma or back in time? And what happens at the end?
Co-creator Matthew Graham reveals in The Life of Wylie: Life On Mars: The Answers that it was all quite straightforward really.
“The truth is, when I wrote it, what I was trying to say is that’s he’s died, and that for however long that last second of life is going to be, it will stretch out for an age, as an eternity for him. And so when he drives off in that car, he’s really driving off into the afterlife.”
Basically, he was in a coma then. And if you woke up in the real world and you hadn’t been playing the game all wrong (you bunch of twonks) then maybe you’d throw yourself off a tall building as well.
The launch night that never was has a link to a video (Real Player sadly) featuring Gerald Priestland trying to cope with the blackout at the start of BBC2.
Key things to look out for (apart from the lack of sound for the first two and a half minutes) are the rasist bus driver report, how little sensationalism was involved in reporting the blackout (note the “if you are wondering why your husband isn’t home from work yet” comment) and the very amusing telephone interuptions, which was exactly the sort of thing Monty Python would parody on BBC2 later on.
Sci-Fi is “bringing back Farscape”:http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-04/05/17.00.sfc
bq. SCI FI announced it will be bringing back Farscape with an all-new miniseries called Farscape: Peacekeeper War slated to air in the fourth quarter of this year. The four-hour miniseries picks up where the cliffhanger series finale left off and will reunite John Crichton (Ben Browder), Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black) and the rest of the Moya crew.
On Child of Our Time last night :-
bq. I was fleetingly worried for Calvin, who seemed like a solitary, withdrawn child, but when we saw him dressing up in his sister’s ballet outfit and brandishing a plastic chainsaw, I realised that he was destined for greatness.
“Child of Our Time”:http://www.bbc.co.uk/parenting/childofourtime/ was great viewing for parents. Especially as we have a child just a bit younger than the ones featured on the programming, so we can tell what is coming up soon.