Safety Catch: 12 hours earlier than planned

Today’s Joanna Page is a public safety announcement. Or at least a public Safety Catch announcement.

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.

Wednesday’s wired up news

Doctor Who

Film

Theatre

  • Nicholas de Jongh’s Coming Up For Air to appear in West End as part of Orwell festival

British TV

US TV

Technology reviews

Bastard the PVR continues to live up to his name

The hardware may have changed, but Bastard, my PVR, continues to be a bastard.

And it all looked so different a couple of weeks, when I discovered he could now record two things at once. Cracking! No more worrying about scheduling conflicts, no more worrying that the end of episode one is going to get recorded on the beginning of episode two if there’s an over-run.

Marvellous.

Except I updated him to version 3.1.1 of his EyeTV software, which worked fine in most regards, except with exports. Suddenly, little Bastard didn’t like to export programs with their soundtracks intact. I didn’t realise this until about a week later, by which time I’d deleted the originals.

Curses.

So I downgraded back to 3.1, using Elgato’s preferred method. Except I didn’t restart my computer since they didn’t ask me to. Now Bastard won’t start recording unless EyeTV is already running. The problem went away after a restart, but not before it had failed to record one programme: American Outlaws, starring Ali Larter.

Bastard.