Today's Sitting Tennant is from Derren Brown's Trick or Treat. In it, Derren gave David the ability to travel through time and predict the future - an enormous power that he ended up using to pick up young blonde women with. You can see the whole thing on the YouTube player at the bottom of this entry.
As always, witty and amusing captions, please, or links to pictures of David Tennant in a sitting position. Rosby's in the lead with the most number of entries hanging in the Sitting Tennant gallery - can you catch her?
Remember Last Man Standing? It was a BBC3 show that sent a load of athletic men round the world to pick fights with foreign tribes. It was actually quite good, despite the description, mixing anthropology, reality show and sport, all in one.
Keep your eyes peeled because series two is coming to BBC3 this September, as far as I can tell, and will feature boxing fire-fighter Wole from London, submission wrester and traffic Cop JJ from Florida, Devon kite-surfer Murray, elite American rugby player Jarvis from San Diego, modern pentathlete Ed from London and soccer player Joey from Chicago. No doubt all those sports will stand them in good stead when they compete in "Guatemalan piglet spinning" or whatever they end up doing. You can see some pictures of the new team above and on the BBC3 web site.
The show is also a co-production with the US Discovery Channel, it turns out, which calls it for the purposes of political correctness and linguistic homicide Last One Standing. The interesting thing though is that the first series of Last Man Standing was only eight episodes long, while Last One Standing is 12 episodes long: the UK is missing four episodes featuring Kraho log running, Andean ice racing, Pencak Silat and Vanuatu canoe racing.
Now, if you recall, Jason was crowned the winner of the first series of Last Man Standing by the other contestants because it was a draw over the eight episodes. Did those extra four episodes change things? Fortunately not, since the leaders all won an extra event each. However, there was no crowning in Last One Standing, strangely enough: it was all for sport.
No word on whether they'll ever show the final four episodes in the UK on BBC3, so keep your eyes open if you have the Discovery Channel. There's also no word on how many episodes will be in the second series, either. Keep your fingers crossed – unless it interferes with the piglet spinning of course.
Fact: "One in three families use some form of domestic help". This sounds like one of those statistics like "93% of people in Middlesbrough wear Etruscan snoods" that is obviously made up but because it involves some numbers, people blank it out and go "Really? Well fancy that."
One in three families? Across the whole country? Are we including paper boys in this or something?
Anyway, whatever the number, some people have to hire domestic help. How do you go about doing this? In the real world, the obvious answer is to use some form of domestic agency, like you might find in Yellow Pages, that carefully vets all its employees, ensures they have decent qualifications, no criminal record problems, experience and a personality that doesn't make you want to hire Freddie Krueger instead.
But this isn't the real world (or even The Real World): this is Channel 4. More importantly, this is Channel 4 post-Wife Swap. What we want is conflict and if that involves introducing some employers who have the management style of Hitler to some potential employees with the skills of Frank Spencer and the attitude to life of a Big Brother contestant, so be it.
Any article on The Adventure Game would be incomplete without mentioning the Vortex. But video footage is rare – otherwise The Adventure Game wouldn't be a 'Lost Gem' – so there wasn't a clip available at the time I wrote the article. But I did promise Marie I'd try to find one for her.
Anyway, I managed it. Yey me.
Here's David Yip and Madeleine Smith braving the Vortex, while the 'mole', Lesley Judd, shows her true colours and tries to evaporate them. It's from the second series so there's no green cheese roll to help them – and David Yip has unwisely given back the ham sandwich he was offered before entering the Vortex room…
Time to launch another new blog god-related feature. This one will show off some of the lesser known work of satirist Chris Morris, who's best known for The Day Today, Brass Eye and Jam.
Naturally enough, I'm calling it Morris Minors.
Anyway, the first entry is a bit of stunt work by the man himself, in which he turned up in the audience of daytime debate show The Time The Place and pretended to be an expert on sex and Roman history. He starts of sensible, he ends up silly, just to see at what point he'll be rumbled.
There's a Fat Pig after-show Q&A with Neil LaBute on Tuesday 8th July, with Vanessa Feltz as co-host. You can also get the best available seats for this performance, Thursday matinees, Mondays and Tuesdays for £25 until the 10th July. You can order over the phone or online using the "FACEBOOK" promo code.
Sky One's Empire was a bit poor, wasn't it?
Warship got a lot better and more focused as the series went on, so I'd recommend catching it on re-runs if you can since it's worth sticking with to the end.
Read more on Today's Sitting Tennant: Trick or Treat