Clear and presenter danger

Okay, I just wanted to say “Clear and presenter danger.” Let’s you and I see if there’s any chance I’ve got something to back that up. I think I have. Earlier this week, a friend did me the favour of alerting me to how a show called “The Piano” was about to start on Channel 4. She didn’t then do me the favour of admitting that she soon gave up on it. I’m not going to say that I only watched because of her, because she might hear me. Instead, I’ll tell you I watched because of her, and because it was about pianos, and because this episode was filmed entirely at Birmingham New Street Station. It was great to see the place shot so well, excellent to see it shown off. But you remember Strictly Come Dancing and the way that its minute-by-minute format was duplicated by Dancing on Ice. (It may have been the other way around. Certainly one copied the other.) Then when that format wouldn’t quite do for the Great British Bake Off, they contrived a version which then went on to power the Sewing…