Spaced (Channel 4, 9.30pm)
KEN and Deirdre, Emmerdale Farm on the market, Jackie and Jimmy Corkhill hit rock bottom (again) and a thoroughly dreadful 
series about Adrian Mole. Yaddah yaddah yaddah. As far as I am concerned there are only two shows on tonight, one ending and 
one beginning, and everything else is just tedious, recycled soap hot-air. At 6.45 on BBC Two is the grand final of Robot Wars. It seems to me that it is going to come down to a mano-a-mano against the fearsome Hypno-Disc, psychotic slicer and dicer of all it surveys, and nippy reigning 
champion Chaos II that has a flipping mechanism that has been known to launch bigger, meaner robots into orbit.
The great thing is that, even as  a seasoned RW watcher, I have not got the foggiest idea who is going to eventually walk off with the crown and that can't be a bad thing. Be there.
THE other big news is the first episode of the long-awaited (by me, anyway) second series of absolutely, positively the best sitcom of the 1990s. Spaced is the story of flatmates Tim (Simon Pegg) and Daisy (Jessica Stevenson) and the weird and 
wonderful adventures they have with their chums.
Now I know that I have gone on about this show before but, hey, if you come across a great new restaurant  don't YOU want to tell all your chums about it?
In tonight's show, Daisy returns from a trip to Asia to find that Tim has let her room to Mike (Nick Frost) ex-member of 
the TA's, borderline psychotic and the only man to get 'Nam flashbacks despite having never been further than Calais. As a result, her lovely room has been transformed into the set of Apocalypse Now. But she has other problems, she is being pursued by two black-clad, shades-wearing agents of some kind, who look uncannily like the villains from the movie The 
Matrix, and I hear that, before the episode is through, we will be treated to an exhibition of martial arts fighting around a pub pool table that ranks as the finest example of choreographed scrapping ever seen on TV.
Stevenson and Pegg write the show as well as star, and the whole is brilliantly directed by Edgar Wright who brings to it a 
visual flair and style totally its own.
What can I say? I love it. E4 showed all seven episodes of the first series on Saturday night and, guess what?, I watched 
them all, AND I will be buying the DVD come payday.
Get on the bus and prepare to be knocked out by thirty minutes of pure genius.

Thanks to and (C) Ray Rumkee of the Hull Daily Mail