Harry Hill's World of TV

Every time I see Harry Hill on TV I wonder why he stopped doing TV Burp. That was probably the funniest show of the 21st century, it literally used to make my sides ache. I had the impression he gave it up because it was too much like hard work. So this is like the lazy version: instead of the immediacy of last week's TV and a studio audience, you have a trawl through ancient archives from times when, you know what? Telly was a bit different from now. Not all that different though; this week's ep about boring mansplaining history was actually very similar to today's BBC4 except that now, instead of a distinguished if untelegenic male historian like AJP Taylor, they often have an unqualified and untelegenic woman like Lucy Worsley or Mary Beard (who is a classicist, not a historian), ladysplaining how the whole discipline of History is a conspiracy got up by men to keep women in their place.

But I digress. World of TV is mildly amusing: at best it's a bit like Rob Brydon's little-known Director's Commentary (although that wasn't just a clip show, it had a character and story of sorts). Like DC, it ought by rights to be on the night shift - except that these are desperate times at the BBC, especially for comedy.