Adieu Sweet SBS

So, farewell the South Bank Show and Melvyn Bragg. Another victim of the crassness of today's television.

But it went out with more of a whimper than a bang. It preferred to go back to the old lovey-strewn haunts of the aRSC. So many good shows, but why return to the precious lovies, and their preening and posturing? But, I suppose it is still a whole lot better than the preening and posturing of talentless non entities and the puffed up celebrities of much of today's television.

And like some of the best works that the RSC has put on, there will be much going over of the texts of whether Melvyn voluntarily retired, or retired after ITV axed the show.

So for the last time I will pinch my nostrils together and adenoidally say goodbye.