Desperate Housewives - Channel 4, Wednesday 10pm

Isn’t it strange watching a show that’s already teetering towards storyline endings and end of season cliffhangers when it feels like it has only just started!

So it looks like Orson’s secret (mowing down Mike) is finally out of the bag, Lynette is getting some much needed male attantion after her run-in with cancer and… holy moly you just knew he couldn’t be dead!…I’m guessing the creepy looking hand cutting a photo of Dylan Mayfair out of a newspaper has just got to belong to her missing father.

I have just checked out the Desperate Housewives website and noticed a couple of strange things:

1 Dylan Mayfairs cast photo seems to have disappeared since last week - how strange - is it because she is more attractive than the rest of the cast (only my humble opinion of course).

2 Danielle Van De Kamp appears to have had an Extreme Makeover in her cast photo, she has changed from possibly the plainest, sourfaced girl in the show (of course it was a close run with Julie Mayer) to Miss Glamour Puss.  Isn’t great what effect some curling tongs and a bit of eyeliner can have?

The Sarah Jane Adventures - BBC One

With the huge void left by Doctor Who do your kids need a fix to fill the sci-fi gap until the specials air?

Get them to check out The Sarah Jane Adventures new updated website.  The iplayer is showing a sneak preview of the new series 2, due to air this autumn and there are lots of games and interactivity to keep them amused.

If you are a Doctor Who fan and can overlook the slightly wooden acting then it’s worth a watch.  The preview shows a VERY scary looking clown and the series also features everyones favourite character….K-9!  If they missed the first series it’s being repeated on Sunday’s at 3.05pm on BBC One.

Desperate Housewives - Channel 4, Wednesday, 10pm

So the summer that never was is officially over, the kids have gone back to school and, hurah!, we have some decent programmes on our tv’s again.

I’m glad the Desperate Housewives have returned, but it’s been so long since the writers strike severed the show mid-season that I had trouble remebering what exactly had happened at the beginning of this series.  Another thing that struck me was that the dialogue seemed a bit stilted, especially noticable in the conversation between Gaby and Edie.  Did anyone else think that or was it just me?  Are they using new writers?

Anyway, it was still great to be able to watch something that didn’t involve reality tv or sport again.  I stared in envy at Gaby’s perfect figure and wondered how they are going to write Eva Longoria Parker’s rumoured pregnancy into the show considering Gaby can’t have children…and I have started to ponder what little plot twist will eventually explain Katherine Mayfair’s husband’s disappearance.

I know all clues are pointing to her murdering him in self defence…but it can’t be that obvious….can it?

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Britain from Above - BBC1, Sunday 9pm

As much as I hate being forced to take a break from my favourite TV genre’s, namely sci-fi and trashy dramas, it does leave me free time to view excellent programmes such as Britain from Above.

This also has the added bonus of leaving me smugly feeling that I have also had a bit of an education when I can quote phrases such as  ‘did you know the English Channel is the busiest shipping lane in the world carrying over 400 vessels on its busiest days?’  Or, and this really is special, ‘the water that we pour out of our taps is the same water that we were flushing down our toilets less than a week ago’……nice!

If you haven’t seen the show I highly recommend it and you can catch up on any episode you have missed via the website, which is worth a visit just on its own merit.  Fantastic for showing the kids that there is life beyond Nintendo!

‘E4 Laughs at Edinburgh’ - The Podcast Series

If you’ve ever thought that the Edinburgh Festival sounds like a bit of a laugh, but you’re too skint (can’t be arsed) to travel all that way - then E4 have a solution.

The likes of Jim Bowen, Jim Jeffries, Reginald D Hunter, John Pinette and last year’s ‘If Comedy’ award nominees Andrew Maxwell and the King of Hospital Radio, Ivan Brackenbury, will be bringing their favourite acts from the festival to the E4 Udderbelly and new E4 Cow Barn, at the Edinburgh Festival.

E4 will give a twice weekly slice of the best and most exciting new comedy talent to emerge during the festival to download as a podcast or listen to on the E4 site.