I did have a bit of a go at the Culture Show a while back - a half hour rush through, using people like Mark Kermode as presenters, rather than making the most of their expertise, no time for any feature to be anything other than superficial.

Now it's 50 minutes long, the presenter is of less consequence - just introducing clips. The likes of Mark Kermode and Andrew Graham-Dixon get time to focus on their own areas of knowledge, and Lauren does the pop bit she is good at. The Screening Room with Mark and Simon Mayo is great. It's no longer set in the studio, but more imaginatively comes from a variety of venues that are arts related - this week's was Somerset House where the great Spanish director Almovodar was attending an outdoor film festival. And it's on at a resonable early evening time.

So thanks BBC for so obviously paying attention to my comments and for getting it right at last, giving us the kind of proper arts show that should be on BBC2, and that pitches itself at the right level, adopts the right tone, and makes the right, good use of the excellent people who give us their views. This might now just be the best arts magazine show we've ever had on UK TV. Or am I talking bollocks and it's all too trendy and dumbed down?