For the benefit of overseas readers, 6Music is a BBC radio station that's available on the Internet or on DAB radios (you don't have those either). It covers "new music" (something close to US indie music) and other genres that appeal to musophiles.

And the BBC is about to close it. The reasons given are that it competes with commercial radio stations (maybe, but only in terms of the listeners, not in terms of content), it costs too much (it only costs a few million pounds to run), it doesn't have enough listeners (although it has enough apparently to compete with commercial radio stations, except it doesn't. Square that circle if you can), and the resources will be used elsewhere (true enough).

To replace it, the current plan is to provide a "Radio 2 Extra" – just as ITV2 gives related content to ITV1 programmes as well as original content of its own, so the new 6Music would do the same for Radio 2.

So this week's question is:

Why are the BBC really closing 6Music? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Do you care? Will you listen to the replacement? Or is all this a storm in a teamcup, you can't get this DAB thing anyway, and to hell with Internet radio?

For the advanced reader: repeat but for the closing of the Asian Network.

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.

• Judy Greer, Robert Forster and Beau Bridges join George Clooney on The Descendants

Radio

• Just under 8,000 complaints about 6Music closure

British TV

• ITV to launch ITV1 HD on Virgin
• Skins gets two more series and another new cast
• BBC1 to make four-night siege drama
• Sky to launch Hallmark Channel HD
• Kevin Bishop Show returning?

Canadian TV

• MovieTime goes HD

US TV

• Casting on Lights Out and Hung, plus a departure on White Collar [spoilers]
• Colm Feore to star on The Borgias
• Sarah Shahi's Facing Kate gets a series order
• BSG's James Callis to join Eureka
• Mary Steenburgen to star in Southern Mom, Xander Berkeley joins Nikita + more casting
• Summer Glau joins The Cape
• Annabeth Gish joins FlashForward
• Paul Schneider leaving Parks & Recreation as a regular
• Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood and Melissa Leo join Kate Winslet on Mildred Pierce
• Julie Roberts to guest on Glee?

• Wii game a go

Film

• Hugo Weaving to play the Red Skull in Captain America?
• Trailer for Shrek Forever After
• Sam Worthington to play Dan Dare?
• Leonardo Da Vinci – action hero?
• Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman to star in Change Up

Radio

• What the Beeb plans to do after closing 6Music and the Asian Network

British TV

• Sky looking for 13-part dramas [subscription required]

US TV

• Firefly/Dollhouse's Alan Tudyk to co-star on Rockford Files
• Pilot casting, including Malcolm McDowell in Franklin & Bash
• John Voight signs up for Fox's Midland
• Katherine Heigl to be released from Grey's Anatomy
• Michael Madsen to guest on 24
• Grace Park and Moon Bloodgood to guest on Human Target
• Nurse Jackie season two trailer

• Elizabeth Banks joins Dark Fields
• Catherine Keener, Allison Janney and Adam Brody up for Hugh Laurie's Oranges
• Johnny Depp and Venessa Paradis to star in My American Lover

Radio

• BBC Cymru Wales to double network radio drama output

British TV

• Beeb to make drama and documentary about destruction of Atlantis – aka the eruption of the volcano on Santorini
• Inquiry into STV "cash for programmes" row

US TV

• Yet more pilot casting, including Dylan Walsh and Joely Richardson
• Dermot Mulroney to play Jim Rockford in Rockford Files remake
• Grace Park to join Hawaii Five-O as Daniel Dae Kim's niece, plus Tricia Helfer joins Dark Blue as a regular
• My Boys' Jordana Spiro joins Love Bites
• Janeane Garofalo joins John Wells' medical drama
• James Callis joins FlashForward

• An interview with John Simm [spoilers]
• More 'lost stories' for Big Finish, including McCoy's missing season

Film

• New trailer for Avatar
• Julian McMahon, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Dreyfuss and Brian Cox to star with Bruce Willis in Red?
  
• Trailer for Amy Adam's rom-com Leap Year

Radio

• Charlie Brooker to host Radio 4 panel show

Theatre

• Alan Moore to write an opera

• Bebo cuts staff and web TV shows
• Janice Hadlow looking for smart dramas for BBC2
• Being Human to move to Wales if there's a third series
• Spooks get 4.5m for second ep

Canadian TV

• CBC and Telefilm Canada to collaborate on TV movies

US TV

• Sarah Connor producer to remake Charlie's Angels?
• BSG's Kate Vernon joins Heroes
• Minnie Driver to guest on Modern Family
• ABC to adapt Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid
• Jeffrey Tambor to star with David Tennant in Rex Is Not Your Lawyer
• Hayden Panettierre to produce CW Harvard Medical School drama, HMS
• Alternative Star Trek pilots to be released on Blu-Ray
• Details of the Gattaca TV series

• Angelina Jolie to appear in Ridley Scott's Gucci?
• Vanessa Redgrave and Monica Bellucci join cast of The Whistleblower
• Ann Peacock to write film version of Eoin Colfer's Aiman
• Universal scraps Cate Blanchett's Indian Summer
• True Blood's Ryan Kwanten filming superhero rom-com Griff the Invisible
• Sherlock Holmes TV trailer

Radio

• Made in Manchester to offer free dramas from David Nobbs and Tim Fountain for download

British TV

• STV acquires Australia's Underbelly, unveils its programming slate
• Beeb to turn off Freeview red button interactive service
• ITV director criticises Beeb's Upstairs Downstairs remake
• BBC Trust blocks iPlayer sharing plan
• Murderland gets more than 6m viewers

US TV

• Heroes ratings up again
• Michael Shanks to play Hawkman, Brent Stait to play Doctor Fate on Smallville
• Judy Greer to star in ABC's I'm With Stupid
• NBC developing Wal-Mart sitcom
• Comcast to offer cable shows like Entourage and Mad Men for free
• FlashForward showrunner Marc Guggenheim leaves
• ABC picks up Castle for a full season

Doctor Who

• David Tennant to appear in Of Mice and Men on Radio 4

• Mel C makes her West End debut

British TV

• BBC unveils BBC HD schedule
• An InBetweeners movie?

US TV

• Angie Harmon to guest star on Chuck [spoilers]
• NBC working on Bruckheimer pilot about tracking fugitives
• Chuck producer to make a western for Fox
• Peter Gallagher to co-star on Covert Affairs
• Judd Nelson to appear on Psych

"Yes, she played Pippa in the pilot. And was excellent. The reason she was not in the series itself was entirely down to availability... It would have been excellent to have had her in the series, but luckily we got the wonderful Susie Kane to play Pippa as she has done fabulously ever since.

The non-broadcast pilot was actually March 2006... then it was a whole year before the first series. Anthony Head wasn't actually in that pilot - Tom Hollander played Mr Sourquill and Mr Gently Benevolent. Again, it was entirely an availability thing for him not doing the series; again we luckily got the fantastic Mr Head. I think both he and Mr Hollander are superb actors.

James Bachman was still Harry Biscuit, even in the pilot (doubling also with Servewell, Sir Philip's butler). Thomas was played by Kim Wall; in the first series he became Mark Perry. Again, all availability. I'm a huge Kim Wall fan.

We also had Sophie Thompson as Agnes, Pip's mother. (In the series played by Celia Imrie.) Once again it's the whole availability thing. I think Sophie was in Eastenders at that point... but may be wrong. We were very lucky - every time we lost someone from the pilot cast, we found someone just as great to replace them in the series. Oh, and Poppy was played by Kellie Bright, who turned up recently in small parts in Horne and Corden and who is/was Kate Aldridge in The Archers. She, too, was unavailable for the series. Everyone got very, very successful and busy after the pilot. Coincidence? Or just great excuse making so they didn't have to be in it?"

So there you have it. However, since it's Today's Joanna Page, have another picture of Joanna Page filming the third series of Gavin & Stacey:

In the UK: Wednesday 1st July, 2.15pm, Radio 4. Available for download until 7th July. Also available from Amazon.co.uk

I feel violated. Violated and stupid. Don't I learn? Am I no better than invertebrates or small yappy dogs? Couldn't I tell that another Torchwood Radio 4 play was going to make the last one look like a work of art?

Apparently not, because I actually sat down and listened, live, to Torchwood - Asylum.

Well that's 45 minutes I'm not getting back.

• Rusty off to America?

Film

• Deadpool spin-off from Wolverine planned
• Rachel Weisz to star in The Whistleblower
• Hugh Jackman working on Wolverine sequel, Personal Security, Drive and remake of Carousel
• Ben Stiller to make Little Britain film?
• Bradley Cooper to play Green Lantern?

Radio

• Unfinished Dirk Gently novel to be adapted by Kim Fuller

British TV

• Second series of Wallander confirmed
• Reggie Perrin ratings drop 800,000
• Gary Glitter character to get The Death Penalty
• Poor ratings for Endgame
• Virgin loses money but gains subscribers
• Improved S4C could lead to cuts at BBC Wales

US TV

• HBO orders series of David Simon's Treme
• John Oliver to star in NBC's Community
• Another Heroes producer gets the chop

• Arnie willing to appear in Terminator film if he doesn't have to do anything
• Angelina to star in adaptations of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta books
• Demetri Martin to appear in Moneyball
• Noel Clarke, Ray Winstone, Mackenzie Crook, Olivia Williams and Toby Jones join Andy Serkis in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
• Jason Statham to star in remake of The Mechanic?

Radio

• Alex Zane quits XFM

Theatre

• Sheridan Smith and Duncan James to star in Legally Blonde: The Musical

British TV

• Ashes to Ashes back with 7m viewers

US TV

• BBC America acquires Katy Brand's Big Ass Show and The Inbetweeners
• Samantha Who? yanked from schedules but may yet return
• ABC trying to acquire The New Adventures of Old Christine from CBS again

Owing to a slight misapprehension on my part, the first episode of the second series of Safety Catch isn't on at 11.30pm tonight, as it was during the first series, but is actually on at 11.30am this morning. So that's 12 hours earlier than planned, although it does mean I've only given you an hour and a half's notice.

On the plus side, it does mean that today, you can wake up with Joanna Page and go to bed with her, too.

Thought I'd mention it.

Here, Dominic Byrne, more famous to radio listeners for producing Chris Moyles' breakfast show but who's the online version of Evan Davis for this, interviews the two online Dragons, Julie Meyer and Shaf Rasul:

[via lovely wife]