Prestige TV

Finally, finally, Channel 4 are showing some new episodes of NYPD Blue, which has been absent from the screen too long. The bad news is, they've relegated it to an even later time slot, as if Dennis Franz was no longer one of the best actors in the world.

Trying to not give me my cake and eat it too, NYPD, like many so-called "Prestige Dramas" is sponsored by the Renault Vel Satis, which is some kind of a car I believe. But if it was really a prestige drama, NYPD Blue wouldn't be on after midnight, it would be on a Monday night at 10 o clock, instead of the slightly insipid "Without a Trace" which is a button-pushing exercise in popular cop/fbi drama. Okay, but not worthy to sit at the feet of NYPD Blue. Rather than Renault, Channel 4 should have these still-great no-longer-regarded-as-great programmes sponsored by a bucket of shit.

Then there's be no confusion.

Anyway, it's good to have it back on, and the theme music feels like coming home.