Almost like the old days

A bunch of bananas to ITV boss Peter Fincham for doing a season launch on Saturday night. He hasn't done one since he was BBC1 controller and held an infamous launch featuring a mis-edited trailer which appeared to show the Queen storming out of a photo shoot. Introducing ITV's autumn line-up, Fincham said: "I used to do season launches until I lost my job." He followed it up with: "Mark Thompson said in his MacTaggart that never again would the BBC compete over ratings. At which point his pants caught fire." More season launches like that, please, ITV.