The box

Television schedules are a depressing sight to behold at the moment. Simply scan the evening's offerings on the main channels, and a line-up of lowest common denominater, brain-numbing excuses for programmes fill the airwaves. Celebrity Love Island, Big Brother, Bad Girls on the commercial channels are typical sad examples of programming this evening, while even the BBC is showing Cutting It - a comedy about Hairdressers in Manchester. I can hardly wait.

As escape from the void of entertainment or information that the TV currently represents, I'm listening again to Radio 4's PM programme on which I've heard that today Bob Geldoff was slagging off Ebay because people have been selling Live8 tickets on the auction site. Not for long however, as fake £10,000,000 bids messed up the auctions of those profiteering from selling the tickets, and shortly later, following a frenzy of media coverage, the MD of Ebay pulled all the Live8 ticket auctions from the site. Peace is restored, but a lot of hot air and bluster has been expelled in the process. More entertaining than a sitcom about Mancunian hairdressers I'm sure.