This weekend's TV

I missed the results show of X-factor this Saturday but apparently I didn't miss much, apart from another awful appearance by Britney Spears. Although to be honest the signs were there in the main show. All the performances were sub-par as far as I was concerned.

That's what you get for basing a show on Britney's back catalogue though. Not the greatest singer in the world and to get these wannabes to copy her style is actually to belittle their talent.

Never mind, hopefully they'll have a better range of songs next week.

Sunday's latest Fringe episode on Sky1 was very good as it revealed a little more about the deceased agent John Scott and what he was up to. Was he selling secrets or working against the mysterious Massive Dynamics corporation. There's enough questions here to keep you interested and coming back each episode. There's no doubt that Walter Bishop is the most interesting character but his son Peter managed to get some storyline this week as he threatened some bloke beating up an old flame, who turned out to have some connection to a group who were after him.

As I intended to write this yesterday, today's post would have been about last nights telly. Instead I'll chuck it in here so you can have two columns of drivel for the price of one.

Monday saw us laid out in front of Eli Stone. It's not the kind of show that you sit perched on the edge of your seat for. Just sit back, relax and let the tale of a lawyer with prophetic dreams with a George Michael theme amuse you and bring some good feeling through your gogglebox. The latest development saw Eli relive his brother's actions at the time of their father's death and revealed a secret that been hidden from him since then.

As usual this tied in with having to defend his brother who veers from week to week as to whether he believes Eli's visions or not. The topic on trial this time is who gets to decide who lives and who dies as a former patient's husband sues Eli's doctor brother.

Actually, writing that I realise that the plot is incidental to everything that's happening. It's the characters that I find myself interested in. Eli is played by Jonny Lee Miller who is an actor I've always liked, ever since he was in Trainspotting. There aren't enough genuine nice guy characters these days, everyone has to have a twisted flaw or a dark secret. It's a light, fluffy program with a male Ally MacBeal.

Whoops! Time to go. Stargate Atlantis is on, then Survivors.


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