Just a quick post for anyone with nothing better to do for the rest of the evening.
BBC Two is showing the new series of the excellent Dragon’s Den starting at 8PM (NOW!!!) and then at 10PM Armando Iannucci’s latest creation Time Trumpet gets its first airing.
The concept behind Dragon’s Den is quite simple; a panel of investors and entrepreneurs hear various pitches for new companies, products and inventions. If they like it they’ll invest their money for a portion of the profit, if they don’t (and they usually don’t) they tend to verbally tear the bright-eyed start-up limb from limb until they have zero faith in their own abilities.
From what I can gather Time Trumpet is a satirical spin on the “I love 19**” crap that pollutes our airwaves and sees a host of aged celebrities and “experts” discuss the events of the first thirty years of the 21st Century. It seems to be in a similar vein to “The Day Today” and that is far from a bad thing in my opinion.
Update: Apparently Time Trumpet is now on at 11:50