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merlinbbc. Not a control freak who spent today going 'right, fuck this, there are NEW RULES for processing and marking up documents! and this time we will be naming names!' to the team. Ending every email with the sig 'has a pain in her left diodes'. and then kicked mum out of the kitchen.

...er, honest?

Oh, shut up. It has Tony Head and Richard Wilson in it and some presumably pretty people who I've never heard of. if it's anything like Robin Hood, expect camp-as-knickers dark ages tosh. With explosions and sudden deaths you really didn't expect a kid's show to do.

I'd Do Anything - of the people we saw, we're expecting Blackpool Nancy to either get kicked out pre-live auditions, or early on. Nancy Nancy, Cleopatra Nancy and the two Shirley Bassey Nancys seem to be strong contenders, Opera Nancy as the wild card. Especially since what Andrew said he wanted as a brief at the beginning of the last two shows went right out of the window. 'Climbs her tree, scrapes her knee? -> Connie Fisher, aka the closest thing you can get to Julie Andrews without cloning (we still suspect she stole her vocal chords). 'Justin Timberlake with added Michael Jackson?' -> Lee Mead, the least boyband-esque of 'em all, considering his utter standouts were Paint it Black and anything that was Liza/Elvis/Sinatra. I'd love to see Amy Winehouse as Nancy, true, but who knows. And apparently if you watch one bit closely of the clip from next week's Nancy school, you can spot Katie Rowley-Jones, aka Nessarose in Wicked. Hrrrm. The live shows will tell. Now, let's sit back and watch 12 weeks of tv audience manipulation so that we vote for Andrew and Cameron's favourites. possibly the only problem is that we won't have anyone visibly dribbling this year in the judging panel.

Also : to all those who begged : Did you not *watch* the other two years? Begging turns the panel off in two seconds - you can actually see the shutters come down instantly on Barrowman's face.