Question of the week: what’s your favourite TV theme tune?

6 February 2012 Rob Buckley 13 Comments

Moved from Wednesday to the slight more logical date of Monday, it’s ‘Question of the Week’, in which I ask a question and hopefully you give me your insightful opinions in return. This week, a simple question, I hope:

What’s your favourite TV theme tune and why?

There’s a lot to be working with and you’re all bound to have many favourites, but what’s your favourite favourite?

Mine is… The Persuaders!, written by none other than John Barry, composer of so many James Bond soundtracks.

He also went on to write the similar but slightly inferior theme to the very inferior The Adventurer, with Gene Barry.

But what’s your favourite?

Monday’s “Borgen 2, Lilyhammer 1, musical Back to the Future, How To Live With Your Parents and the Columbine massacre” news

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Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 5, 2012)

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Hebbie's Sitting Tennant

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Shilohforever's Sitting Tennant

Is it hot, does he want to kiss it, is he about to serenade it or is he in fact a ‘chip whisperer’? Who knows, but have a good weekend.

  1. Hebbie, Sister Chastity: 15
  2. Toby: 10
  3. shilohforever: 5

Don’t forget Tuesday’s caption competition!

Board of Sitting Winners
January
Pictures: Hebbie, Sister Chastity
Captions: Rullsenberg, SK

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable and doesn’t obviously infringe copyright, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.

The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Tuesday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.

You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points, everyone who contributes getting five points.

Each month, I’ll name the best picture provider and best captioneer, and then at the end of the year, the overall champion will be announced for 2012!

Friday’s “Jamie Bamber pilot, Michael Sheen masters sex, and Munsters are not Munsters” news

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British TV

  • BBC1 commissions series based on PG Wodehouse’s Blandings, starring Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders
  • S4C lobbies for investment in online-only content [subscription required]
  • Midsomer Murders gets more than 6m viewers

US TV

  • Munsters remake to be called Mockingbird Lane
  • Lost‘s Ken Leung joins Sarah Silverman comedy
  • ABC Family renews The Secret Life of the American Teenager, picks up new Baby Daddy
  • Jamie Bamber to star in Chelsea General
  • TV Land renews The Exes
  • FX developing comedy starring Dana Gould
  • NBC orders JJ Abrams/Eric Kripke’s Revolution
  • Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan to star in Masters of Sex