I’m so glad that Saturday night TV is picking up. Mind you, after the god-awful summer schedules for Saturday, it doesn’t take much.

That said, Walk On The Wild Side and The Cube both make excellent half-hour-each diversionary telly, and both are brilliant in their own way.

This weekend is the first time I’ve seen Walk On The Wild Side and having seen it, I’m going to catch-up on the previous episodes on iPlayer. In case you’ve never seen it, the concept uses footage of animals and Jason Manford – and a whole host of other folks – do voiceovers to provide very amusing ‘what they might be saying’ stuff.

By far my favourite scenes though weren’t voiced-over but they did have music; it was the Scratching Badgers, magically transformed by the art of suggestion into DJing badgers. Brilliant.

Other excellent scenes featured a scenario in which a chimp was being psycho-analysed while stubbornly refusing to wear underwear, and Penguin’s Got Talent, which was laugh out loud funny.

Jason Manford et al really have hit upon a gap in the comedic market with this one in that it features two things we Brits love; cute animals and a good laugh.

Now onto last night’s The Cube, which was the second outing for this oddly addictive game show. My daughter and I were watching and I’d been explaining to her how, last week, I’d expected to be bored witless by The Cube but was yelling at my telly within minutes, using phrases like, “Don’t use your Simplify yet!” and, “How hard can it be?!”

She didn’t readily believe me but sure enough, as one of last night’s contestants, Faye, had to try to shoot a box into another box – netball/basketball styly – and continually failed, she and I were both groaning with each miss and my daughter ended up wondering out loud what the Simplify could be…

Like I said, it’s addictive viewing. However, on the subject of Faye and her box, no double entendre intended, I thought that was a ridiculously hard game for a £2,000 one and I wasn’t at all surprised that Faye dropped lives like hot bricks. I really thought that was more of a £10,000 game.

However, poor Faye ended up nearly lifeless and had to leave with just £2,000 but her predecessor Nicky – a propa geezer mate – walked away with a cool £50k, but not before he’d had to strip down to his boxers to step over hurdles while blindfolded by a high-tech mask thingy. Why in his boxers I hear you ask? Well, because he’d been wearing movement hindering jeans and he had to be as agile as a mountain goat to clear the delicately balanced hurdles.

So, sans jeans, the boy done good and made it across The Cube with perilously few lives remaining to claim his £50k and his jeans.

Brilliant stuff!

If you missed Walk On The Wild Side, you can catch it again here on iPlayer  and if you missed The Cube, again you can catch that on ITV Player here