THE BRITS: GREAT NEWS FOR BLOCKBUSTER

ITV are so thrilled with the prospective line-up for the Brit awards that they're going to extend the coverage by half an hour (although twenty-two minutes of that will be taken up by Chris Evans mugging) - presumably they are hearing different things to everybody else.

What's going to happen? Oasis' Tweedle brothers are fighting over who gets to sing with Paul Weller; Madonna is going to do something and so are Coldplay. It's so grim that you almost start wishing Jools Holland will pitch up with his boogie-woogie piano.

There is a prospect of Take That, though, and Kate Bush (who the 3am Girls are still describing as a "reclusive singer") might do something, so it's going to be worth a zap through with Sky+ the next day; although let's hope the extra half hour doesn't make it clash with Boston Legal.

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