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Most amusing search of the day? A Google image search for "where is David Tennant at the moment?"
Don’t know if this is going to be at all useful to anyone, but it’s a thing called 123 Web TV that you can use to search for web television services, such as 4oD and iPlayer (allegedly). I didn’t find it that great – it was more useful for telling me about services I didn’t know about than programmes that are online – but you mileage may vary.
The Guardian is offering you the chance to download an episode of On The Hour, the radio precursor to The Day Today starring Chris Morris and Steven Coogan as Alan Partridge. But you can play it in this embedded player if you’d prefer. It’s very funny.
The full edition is finally to be released on CD, as part of a collection of five 30-minute episodes, a Christmas special and the original pilot episode by Warp Records on November 24.
In the UK: Mondays, 8.30pm, BBC3
The sitcom of the 90s was very definitely Friends. So it comes as something of a surprise for Adam Chase, one of the show’s producers, to be slumming it on BBC3 with Clone, a sci-fi sitcom about a mad government scientist who tries to create a super-soldier and ends up producing someone a bit ‘special’ instead.
Greater creative freedom and the chance to work out the kinks before pitching it to the US networks is the alleged excuse, and that’s fair enough. If some of the best writers of the US TV scene want to use British TV to experiment with ideas, I say let them.
The only proviso for that is that they’d better produce something funny. And Clone? Well, it’s very…
Go on. Go to after the jump. If you don’t, I’ll make you and then I’ll turn blue. You won’t like me when I’m blue.
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