Telly night

Channel-hopping tonight, for once there was a surfeit of choice. Sky3 (freeview) showed the stagey western pilot for 'Deadwood', with Ian McShane, which I loved. Apparently it's now a HBO series. Freeview's fucking brilliant. This was up against a BBC4 docu about the lives and fates of five young people first interviewed in 1973.

Things went downhill when I became transfixed by the personal view of the 70s by David Aaronosonofavitch thereafter on BBC4- "Me and the three-day week" , in which his days of protest in the early 70s were presented as utopian, fuzzy and ill-informed. Comic VT of a young DA in varsity scarf. Of course he's much wiser now, as his closing cozy interview with fellow reformed revolutionary Charles Clarke implied.

Oh sweet irony that this came out on the day when three NuLab frontbenchers- Clarke, Hewitt and Prescott- had the decency to be embarrassed. Bliar's become blunted in that ability.

Has anyone else noticed that Aaronosonofavitch was separated at birth from Jeremy Beadle?