It may be few to many flowered and usually has at its base one or more series of leaflike bracts.
But now the corporation has ordered not one but two more series of its Lee Mack comedy Not Going Out.
At Edinburgh she announced that there will be no more series of its rating-grabbing, queasiness-inducing format My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, only one-off specials.
ITV also has an option to extend the deal and order two more series of TV Burp, another one next year and one in 2012.
Harry Hill has signed a multimillion-pound two-year deal with ITV to make more series of TV Burp and You've Been Framed.
Melvyn Bragg is expecting to sign a further two-year deal with Sky Arts to present more series of The South Bank Show and other programming.
With The Killing and Borgen finished, Wallander having bowed out on BBC4 last Saturday and just one more series of The Bridge, the sun seems to be setting on a golden age of Scandinavian television.
ITV has signed an exclusive primetime deal with Jonathan Ross, understood to be worth just less than £2m, to air three more series of his ITV1 Saturday night chatshow.
ITV and STV, which have been involved in a long-running legal dispute which was settled last month, put their commercial differences aside to co-fund one more series of Taggart last year.
"Everyone follows the Ashes because it's the only iconic Test series – which is sad because, for the longevity and sustenance of Test cricket, you need more series of that nature.
Described by some of those she has investigated as a "cow", and a "stupid whore", Ms Lastera is awaiting the outcome of two more series of lab tests to evaluate the toxic and carcinogenic risks of the incinerator to the valley's population.
