13th March On TV tonight


Grace Under Pressure is encouraging all of its five readers to tune to today's very hastily recorded episode of The Repair Shop in which Jay Blades and his team meet a very traumatised guest.

In a special 90 minute edition of the show viewers will be able to get a grandstand view when director General Tim Davie presents the Repar Shop team with its most difficult challenge to date as they try to restore the reputation of the BBC.

In a trailer for the show Tim Davie tries to explain how the BBC came to be in such a sorry state as he describes other occasions when parts of it had deviated from the accepted norms, only for those events to be totally disregarded by the powers that be. Then last week, one of its major components stated to malfunction and when attempts where made to silence it and effectively remove this infected part from the overall machine, other less significant parts also began to stop behaving as expected. The end result was the reputation of the BBC went into total freefall.

Will it be able to be repaired? Will its major compnent be able to be restored or will it need to be replaced? Will anyone actually care? Tune in on BBC1 tonight to find out.


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