I missed this episode of Tonight on Friday, so I caught up with it yesterday on ITV Player, and if you’re the sort of person who just loves a handy cost-cutting tip or three, then you’ll love this show.

It was presented by Martin Lewis, the often hyper financial whizzkid who appears on GMTV to share money saving ideas with the nation, and for this show, he met one especially super-thrifty granny who lives and breathes the wartime adage, ‘make-do-and-mend’.

“Green Granny Barbara” showed us how to reuse that odd shoe that’s been in the hallway for ten years, or utilise the cat’s poo from the litter tray – well, not really, but you get the gist – and what a lovely lady she is. Read more & comment »

Oh it’s so good to be back with the misfits and freaks in Benidorm! The Oracle, his mum/PA, gayer than gay Gavin and Troy and of course, the leather skinned, miserable and constantly cruel Madge, and the rest of the long suffering Garvey family.

Mick’s still fighting his dislike of step-father-in-law Mel in the hope that when he dies, Mick and Janice will inherit his fortune. And Mel’s got a new business venture to add to that fortune too; selling and hiring out mobility scooters, with his selling point being, “You don’t have to be a cripple” in order to enjoy a mobility scooter; you just have to be a lazy git.

Sheridan Smith added to the going-with-a-bang start to the new series, starring as she did as gobby scouser Brandy, who’s rather inexplicably friends with the buttoned-up Martin. He’s now single, his wife having apparently gone off to be miserable elsewhere, and he fancies a snifter of Brandy… Read more & comment »