Once again it’s been a while and once again it’s not because we’re lazy or out enjoying the sun; there just hasn’t been anything that has made us sit up and want to say anything. William and Mary should have been great but (what are we calling the Irag thing, ah that’s right…) current world situations, meant it was pushed forward by the news and overlapped with 24. So when going head to head didn’t really get a look in. Ditto for Hardware although that does appear to be quite dire. The second series of 24 doesn’t seem as compelling as the first although every time we say that it seems to crank up the excitement. But somehow still a tad on the dull side.

There are the latest series of er and The West Wing (if you can find it in the schedules) doing the rounds on C4, but lovemytv has already seen them on E4. Ali G doesn’t seem as funny although there are hilarious moments but the in the USAiii show feels stretched to breaking point.

40 was great whatever anybody else says as we would have raved about it at the time but we were too busy trying to find time to watch 3 hours of TV within a week to do much else.

And this Millionaire thing. Over produced documentary made the whole thing look like a farce and much imitated Martin Bashirs presence didn’t help matters. Cheating or not cheating he wasn’t guaranteed the right answers in fact it was no different from the couples show. And was it just us or apart from the obvious u turns did he not get most of the answers right on his first guess. And don’t have a go at the poor mad fool for not knowing the easy Coronation Street question. If you’ve never seen it you’re not going to know and that makes it a hard question. The £1 million question was a lot easier by comparison because.

It's not that there hasn't been anything good it's just that there hasn't been anything worth writing about. 40 was better than expected, in fact it was really quite good. But again with the random scheudling, what is going on?

It's been a long time since a programme has literally made us gasp but the ending of last nights At Home With The Braithwaites did just that. The ending, which I seem to remember heat more or less giving away set up yet more avenues for the characters to explore in the remainder of the series.

Curb Your Entusiasm was also on again. You did watch it didn't you? We're never going to shut up about it so you may as well.

Monk is charmingly delightful and obvious from the start that it was going to go on to great things (i.e Tony Shalhoub's Golden Globe win for best performance). So it’s such a shame to see that it too has fallen foul of the random scheduler, Saturday tea time, why?

Loyal (non-existent) visitors, we haven't forgotten and abandoned you already. It just seems that despite the amount of high quality tv over the last week or so there hasn't really been anything that has made lovemytv sit up and want to say something.

Cold Feet ended with an emotionally hard hitting finale, that served the entire series well. Although we can't help but think Frank Skinners final shot would at least bring a smile to our faces. In Badiel and Skinner Unplanned he suggested if all the characters had been killed off the final shot could have been of six blanked covered corpses lying on morgue tables with, yes you've guessed it, only their cold feet sticking out.

The final episode of the penultimate series of Dawsons Creek started with a dream flash forward into the near future where, shock horror, Dawson and Joey hadn't spoken for years. All of this just made lovemytv cynical about the rumours of flash forward last ever episode providing a wedding and some closure. Sometimes happy endings aren't a good thing. Anything this is just another excuse to have another bitch at C4 for abandoning the final series, its bad enough having it chastised every week by the decreasingly talented T4 presenters.

C4 must still be congratulated for getting the new series of er on air so shortly after E4. The opening episode was completely fantastic with a shock that actually shocked as lovemytv didn't know it was coming. It's hard to imagine how things could get better but this series continues to excel each week. Is this the best series yet?

Double Take is currently as close as art as TV comes. It's also one of the funniest things around at the moment. The "funniest things on tv" crown unquestionably still goes to Curb Your Enthusiasm. Even when it isn't on top form its still miles ahead of any other comedy currently doing the rounds. Even when you know what is coming it still delivers. If you're not watching it we can only hope that its because its hidden away in the depths of obscurity on BBC4.

At Home With The Braithwaitesshouldn’t work; it’s prime time ITV which rarely spells out quality, it’s far fetched and full of OTT acting. But the thing is, it really does work and fantastically so. After the first series it was hard to imagine how on earth a second series would work let alone this, the fourth one. It’s down to the excellent writing which forces believable characters into unbelievable situations.

Oh My God! Forgive the 18-30 shriek of excitement but it seems somewhat apt after just watching the 2nd episode of Boys and Girls. Who knows if the format is going to vary slightly from week to week or if there were brainstorming sessions through the week? But whatever was niggling about last weeks show seems to have thoroughly ironed out in time for this weeks programme. Fantastic. But losing everything seems so painful, especially if last weeks irritant had lost the phone vote she could have kept one of the items she’d bought. Poor girl.

When a rumour of the death of one of the Friends came to lovemytv’s attention it gave us a chance to check out the weeks news and notice a few interesting things. Firstly it seems that Boys and Girls was quite badly received (see here for more). It does have potential though doesn’t it? The big problems are still that assistant and the fact the type of people who will want to take part are a) the type of people who are as irritating as hell b) have better things to do on a Saturday night. So maybe the prize money is a too high and wasted on the spoilt bratty winners at least the viewer has a phone vote to decide that they don’t deserve to keep their shopping.

Much sadder news is the Five have secured the rights to show the final series of Dawson’s Creek. It doesn’t really make much difference what channel shows it but shame on Channel 4 for not only giving up on it but keeping it for E4. They always promised that E4 wouldn’t affect C4 but it’s starting to. Sometimes for the better like the early arrival of the latest series of Friends but there does seem to be a longer wait for new series. Where for example is the 2nd series of The Secret Life Of Us, we’ve been waiting over a year for that. C4 still haven’t been forgiven for never showing the final series of My So Called Life. And Dawson on a Saturday night just won’t feel right, guess it’ll be taped and watched on a Sunday morning.

This is nothing to do with TV but who ever said everything had to be about TV (erm, we did didn't we, isn't that the point of all this). But isn't stocking up on ingredients for pancakes defeating the whole point of pancake day in the first place?

The first two hours of the second series of 24 left some doubts as to whether or not it could really live up to the high expectations set by the first series. Thankfully the 3rd hour was a fantastic reminder of everything that was great about 24 this time last year.

But what we really want to bitch about is this whole business of “See the next episode now on BBC3”. Why? Is there any point? Last year the cliff-hanger nature of most episodes meant there was a “must-see what happens next” mentality kick in. But flicking to BBC3 to watch next weeks episode now still means a 7 day wait until the next(+1) episode. So now we see episodes a week in advance but when it comes to the finale what do we find, well if last year is anything to go buy, a lovely making-of programme and we still have to wait to see the last episode on BBC2 the following week.