Horizon has always been – or maybe after last night’s foray into bodyclock mechanisms – a reliably intelligent and interesting watch. Whatever caused that magic has apparently done a Houdini, if this offering was anything to go by.

I was expecting a relatively detailed explanation about how all our internal thingummys and gadgets work but instead, got quite an alarming number of statements of the glaringly obvious. For example, we learned that teenagers don’t like getting up – which is brand new information. We learned that our bodies are “a bit sluggish in the early morning”, which prompted me to utter “No s**t Shelock”.

And the really useful revelation that between 8 and 10pm we “may be feeling a little tired and starting to think about going to bed” came right out of the blue. Who’da thunked eh? Read more & comment »