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So I’ve recently been watching Suits with my lovely wife – it’s coming to Dave in the UK on the 17th and I heartily recommend you watch it. But as I was watching it, a thought came to mind: it’s essentially about two blokes. Then another thought came to mind: is there any good reason why it couldn’t have been about two women? In fact, wouldn’t it have been even more interesting with two women in the main roles? Okay, Gabriel Macht’s fantastic but all the same, there are plenty of strong actresses who could have been Harvina Specter.

Guys – everywhere. Women? Not so much – at least not in these kinds of roles (don’t mention Ally McBeal anyone).

So this week’s question is a simple:

What TV show with primarily male leads would be more interesting with female leads? Or vice versa?

There are some shows that really need male or female leads – 2 Broke Girls, Man Up! and New Girl are all about situations specific to a particular gender. Even Suburgatory would have changed subtly if it were less about mean girls than mean boys.

But would Terra Nova have sucked less with a female lead? Would A Gifted Woman have been more interesting than A Gifted Man or just the same? Would Grimmin have been better – or just Buffy again? Would Boss have worked better with a female mayor?

What do you think? Answers below or on your own blog, please!

It’s that time again everyone. Time for my annual year-end break which some crazy people have decided to call “Christmas”.

As usual, I plan on doing precisely no work over the Christmas break, but I’ll be back with the news and more on January 2th. Or maybe the 3rd. Some time around then anyway.

Survey time
As always, let’s take this as an opportunity to have a reader survey. What sorts of things would you like to see on this here blog in 2012? And what sort of things have outstayed their welcome? And are people okay with the idea of additional monthly Sitting Tennant competitions?

Leave your requests for more, less or the same below in the comments and I’ll decide what gets the chop and what stays alive when I get back. I’ll probably carry on as before, but you never know.

In the meantime, a Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to you all, thanks for reading and a great big thanks as always to everyone who’s left a comment for livening up the place! We just hit 14,000 comments and I’m about five away now from hitting my 5,000th post. Exciting, huh?

PS You have until midnight to enter the Top Gear competition. At the moment, it looks like absolutely no one wants the DVD, so if you enter, you’ll probably win the prize.