They do say that if one eats too much cucumber the digestion suffers and the taste repeats itself.

It would appear that the programme managers of Go and Melita cable TV are suffering from this digestive malady if we go by the repeats we get on the BBC Entertainment channel.

Let’s just look at the repeats we get on the same day and two or three times in the same week.

We are sick of: Keeping up Appearances, Last of the Summer Wine and Only Fools and Horses, which now sometimes comes up on TVM too and many others. True, they have given a new look to My Family but the limit is being reached with One Foot in the Grave, with the stupidity of Victor Meldrew whose antics we have learnt by heart and who really needs to have both feet in the grave.

Of course, some oldies are worth watching again, such as Judie Dench’s After You’ve Gone, but what about the return of Strictly Come Dancing and Ready Steady Cook?

Too much cucumber indeed from Go and Melita Cable on the BBC Entertainment (?)channel!