Now is the winter of our discontent ...

... made even worse by the number of wretched repeats on the box.

Last Sunday evening, BBC1, 2100, peak evening time - an episode of George Gently last shown not six months ago.  My thoughts were more like f*** me gently.

Several times this week at lunch time Trash in the Attic which Jane likes (can't stand the carp at any price) has been repeats with today's offering on at least the third showing.  Bargain Hunt, again not my choice particularly, has had a great number of repeats over recent weeks.

The remaining four channels, when not showing soaps, so called reality shows with talentless wannabes (and never willbes), how to buy/sell/renovate/move/tastelessly makeover houses, endless American detritus purely for the hard of thinking just being the tip of the iceberg in their apology of scheduling.

Oh yes, then consider the oft used labels such as 'A chance to see again', Films you have loved', 'Classic TV drama/films/ so called comedy shows trying to fool the viewer into watching them again.  Then of course there is the endlessly repeated Morecambe & Wise/Tommy Cooper/Two Ronnies etc which were funny on the first and possibly the second viewing but which now some folk must surely know the scripts as well as those originally performing them.

There will come the day, shortly I believe, that there will be a fresh offering labelled 'News bulletins that you have loved' in a desperate search to fill the allotted transmission hours.

Thankfully I no longer am an involuntary subscriber to the TV licence fee but those who are I firmly believe are being weel and truly had over.

Thank God for Radio Four and John Humphries :-)