and if so, did it do any good?

What's happened to Radio 2? It's hard to find a professional radio broadcaster these days for the stunt-casting likes of Fern Britton, Richard Madeley, Alan Carr, Paul O'Grady, Catherine Tate, Grahame Norton... Some of us choose radio OVER television, not just when we can't get to the telly set. If we were fans of these people, we'd be watching them instead of tuning in to R2.

I know the station's had some success with household names in the past, but if this is the future - trying to win over fans of another medium with no regard for existent fans, marginalising radio talents like Johnnie Walker, Alex Lester, Brian Matthew... I'll be gutted!

Joss ''Buffy' Whedon's latest series was cancelled this week, midway through the second series airing in the States. Must really hurt after his last show, 'Firefly', getting the same treatment from the same network.

This was played at the end of 'Home Time' last night, had to pretend to my wife I had something in my eye...

Going to kick this off with Jed Mercurio's 'Bodies' (2004-2006), missed it when first on the Beeb but we roared through both series on DVD this summer (sometimes with fingers over our eyes) - really powerful on the politics and machinations of hospital life; sometimes funny, often shocking, storylines; great performances from the whole cast, including Keith Allen, Patrick Baladi and even Max Beesley.

Have any of you seen this 1978 film, produced by Spielberg, directorial debut of Robert Zemeckis? I remember seeing billboards for it at Universal Studios and all over LA on a holiday there that year, never seen the film.

Really enjoying 'How Not To Live Your Life' on BBC3, juvenile but makes me laugh out loud.

'Outnumbered' is genius.

Got a soft spot for 'Not Going Out' and 'Lead Balloon' too.

Any you like?

and does anyone agree re. She Wolf lady?

(Or even the near-perfect modern Adult Rock album?)

It could do with losing a flabby track of two, and I'm really not a fan of Brendan O'Brien's production, but EVEN SO... It's got everything you'd want from a Springsteen/E Street Band album - upbeat retro rock'n'roll, wistful songs about the home town going wrong, intimate songs, impassioned rockers ('Gypsy Biker' and 'Devil's Arcade' two of his most thrilling, powerful songs ever) - done really, really well. Played it again over the weekend, finished with my heart thumping.

It's a soap, it's a murder mystery, it's horror, it's I Know What You Screamed Last Summer - the TV Series, it's glossy and daft and I'm really hooked. Or after the last episode I saw, harpooned!

Sad to hear about Patrick Swayze, 'Point Break' sheer, daft, thrilling genius, could watch it anytime. (Would've put it in 'Movies you just like' except that it - and 'Dirty Dancing' - really good at what they're doing, so for me not inexplicable pleasures at all.)

For me, Sam Rockwell, if only for 'Lawn Dogs' and 'Confessions of A Dangerous Mind' (both fantastic, unusual, rich films which everyone should've seen (but didn't.)

He was good in 'Moon', too, (even if the film around him was slightly muddily-muddley-told), even holds his own in the first Charlie's Angels film. Anyway, not going to list everything he's been in; anyone else like him, or do have your own 'best kept secret in film today'?

Does anyone else still like them or are their 5 minutes of buzz over? Have you played them recently?

Right? (Or was the 'how I did it' last night just more smokescreen?...)

Saw 'The Hurt Locker' last night - incrediby good, adult, unsensational, utterly gripping, thought provoking...

(After '80s vampire/Western/lovestory 'Near Dark', ridiculous but ever enjoyable 'Point Break', underrated 'Blue Steel', SF 'Strange Days' and now the full blown maturity of this, was thinking, is Kathryn Bigelow the best female director ever to come out of Hollywood?)