IllinoisFor the past few weeks, my favourite hour-format TV show, "Friday Night Lights", has been airing an abortion subplot.
The stand-up comedian Phil Jupitus said to 5 Live: "The [Terry] Wogan show, with all due respect to anyone who has hosted the show, was my favourite two hours in a television studio.
It is quite my favourite half-hour of any TV week and you must become converted.
The sell to viewers is that Walter Iuzzolino, chief creative officer of Global Service Network (GSN), Channel 4's partner in the scheme, has made a personal selection of his favourites from 3,500 hours of foreign-language box sets.
That stopped, he says, "as soon as I started making any money, as soon as I could get tables at my favourite restaurants an hour before… You start off kicking against the system and then you become the thing to be kicked against.
In launching BBC1+1 the corporation is falling in line with standard industry practice in the digital TV era with a timeshift service for its flagship network, which offers viewers the chance to watch their favourite programmes an hour after they are broadcast on BBC1.
When she appeared at the Oxford music hall in June, the audience cheered so loudly for her return that the following act could not be heard; The Era called her "the favourite of the hour".
Ladbrokes yesterday made Chicago 4/7 favourite, followed by The Hours at 5/2.
Dressed in a tweed cap and suede jacket, he did not thrill the crowds as much as President Jacques Chirac, the farmers' favourite, who spent four hours at the fair.
That's what I did: I copied my favourite singers and learned – singing for hours and hours, years and years.
