My 3-point plan to save television

We all know that T.V is shit.

A dead medium, right now there are many millions of people on the internet more than watching Bell's invention.

But television is also like an old friend, you used to be good mates untill you started hanging out with his cooler broadband brother. And you still visit him ocasionally just to check up.

When we do visit our old mate though he's just broadcasting mind numbing, reach-as-many-viewers-as-possible-before-they-notice-its-all-balls-and-there-hasn't-been-anything-that-good-on-for-years, mundane tripe.

When was the last time you can remember watching terestrial T.V and being really interested? Actually caring what was going to happen rather than just waiting for the programe to finish for your mum's sake?

Music has always been an important part of our culture- from medieaval jesters with their lutes to the 19th century cockney family round the "al' joanna" to today's drug soaked clubs, and the level of coverage offered to it by television is dispicable.

Not since Top of the Pops finished have the terestrial T.V watchers of the nation had an outlet to watch up-to-date pop music. The best you can hope for is five minutes at the end of Jonathan Ross's chat show or stay up burning the morning oil to watch Jool's Holland.

So heres my suggestion to save T.V -are you listening BBC?- 1. Bring back Top of The Pops ridiculous presenters and all. It was always meant to be for kids and kids like crap music, everyone does when they're a kid, so put on all the charts on TOTP and occasionally a band the grown-ups will like.

2.Get Jools Holland's show on at a reasonable prime-time slot. The only time most people have the chance to hear new music is on the radio if they're driving somewhere, bring it back to peoples living rooms.

3. And lets get musicians into everyday sort of situations. Why not Morrisey running a fruit and veg stall in Eastenders for a couple of episodes? Or Pete Doherty on a cooking programme explaing how to make Tiramasu? Or even the Arctic Monkeys entering the Eurovision song contest?

Well, maybe not the last one...