Now for once, this post isn’t about food. Caught you there!
Sunday does seem to be a day for comfort food versions of TV though. One of the Channel 4 repeats channels had wall to wall recent Jamie Oliver episodes – everything to do with the veg you’ve just grown (so I guess food does come into the picture again, unsurprisingly).
Equally, there’s this newish channel called Dave which shows lots of episodes of QI (hurray) but equally doesn’t stint on Top Gear (can do, but less what I’d choose to put in).
Nothing like Sunday night for a travel programme, and as that nice Mr Palin has done his stint in Eastern Europe, it’s over to Charlie Boorman and Ewen MacGregor to get down and dirty riding motorbikes from the north of Scotland to the tip of the African continent.
More swearing than on PalinTV (though there may be a certain amount off camera, one would anticipate), but also some heart – Ewen going off camera when affected by how many children face living in areas with landmines, on the Ethiopia-Eritrea border.
Our regular comfort food TV for a Sunday – West Wing repeats – have been moved over to a Saturday slot. The things they do when they hear you’re out of the country, eh? They even mucked about with the TV format in the Saturday Times TV section, which has until now been one of the clearest to read.
Lest it be said that we spend all our free time watching TV, I would note that a good TV guide makes it much easier to work out what you DO want to watch, rather than channel hopping via the selection onscreen.
Dan’s version of comfort food TV would probably have to include black and white Sunday matinees, as a result of spending time at his uncle and aunt’s while younger. Not a bad investment when you grow up and discover that knowledge of black and white films offers a certain level of trendiness…or so we are still led to believe.
For those of a certain era, surely the testcard would have to be the final option in comfort food TV (though Dan has also watched Open University programmes put on at very late/very early times, another of those store cupboard staples of programming).
Whatever your meat (or poison), hopefully such stuff allows you to be suitably soothed on a Sunday night that you can face the week ahead. So far, so good.