Oh, And It Features Music From Black Lace. I Kid You Not.

I know that the TV excitement in the last week has mainly focussed on Torchwood, but I haven't seen that yet (planning to watch it all in one big chunk), so I can't comment.

However, one TV show in the past few days which I found rather exciting was the fourth episode of Psychoville, written by and starring two of the League of Gentlemen, and lo and behold this episode features a guest appearance by the other onscreen member (so, not Jeremy Dyson).

If you've ever seen the Hitchcock film Rope and marvelled at the long sequences between cuts, then this episode will impress you in the same way; from what I could see, there's only one cut, at about the 20 minute slot, which is something you really don't see very often in TV. The episode is very much like Rope in structure and content too, and is quite clearly a homage - in the proper sense of that word, not the cut-and-paste-swipe sense all too often used nowadays. That said, I reckon you could probably watch this episode without having watched those before it.

But John, you may be asking, how can I watch it now? The wonders of the BBC iPlayer, I say in reply, and point you to this link, which should enable you to watch the episode on your computer. Wonderful what they can do nowadays.

I have to say, I think Psychoville is a very solid show so far - the central mystery of it is unravelling well, and the cast of characters are suitably horrifying and/or funny (often both at once). Worth looking at the whole series so far if you're not already following it, I'd say.