One of the best parts of recording stuff to watch later, as we all know, is being able to fast-forward through the ads. Only these days it’s not just the ads you want to skip, it’s those interminable trailers. Watching American Idol on Friday night proved again how insistent ITV2 are (it’s not just them, but they’re worse than most) that you sit up and take notice of their upcoming shows. Every single commercial break featured either Supernatural, or Bionic Woman. You know what? Yes, you. ITV2 people. I’m talking to you. The trailers are cool. The first time. But I *really* don’t want to sit through the same damn thing every twenty minutes for three hours. Enough already.

Still, I have to admit it looks good. The idea was always a winner and with Michelle Ryan taking on the mantle of Jaime Sommers and bang up to date special effects, what’s not to be good? Don’t get too hooked on it though. As with many American shows, once ratings started to dip (as they did throughout the first series) the rumours began to spread that the plug would be pulled by NBC, and when the show was notable by its absence from NBC’s list of the shows that were back in action after the recent writers’ strike in the US, Variety reported last week that it had been “essentially cancelled.”