CD:OK?

Inevitably, having dispatched Top Of The Pops to the sidelines CD:UK is now under threat (link from a female magazine, which explains why the picture of Cat Deeley is twice as big as the story). It does appear, indeed, that the programme has been completely unsure of itself since Cat left, not least how it's suddenly decided to decamp to the former Celebrity Wrestling graveyard of the old Sunday morning god slot for the summer, ostensibly to get out of the way of Formula 1 qualifying instead of doing what it used to do and pre-recording a half hour show. Oddly, even after four months the show's website still lists the unlikeable Dave Berry as 'permanent guest presenter', as if when they announced he would be the new main host they forgot to mention that they didn't mean it like that, alongside a series of co-hosts, just to prove they don't trust him on his own, seemingly picked with an agency list and pin.

There's a wider point, of course - if it did go, with TOTP let out to dry out and Five quietly forgetting they ever tried a music show there would be no new music specific year-round programming bar Popworld, which people don't watch for the music (Later, yes, but the proper series is only on for 12 weeks of the year) at a time when the whole of ITV's Saturday night schedule is about amateur singing.