Writers Bloc

Scott from Neighbours, Tiffany from Eastenders, Mike Baldwin from Corrie, the bloke from The Full Monty and, most bizarrely, Mrs McClusky from Grange Hill - you have to say that Moving Wallpaper/Echo Beach had some inspired casting.

Too early to say whether the new ITV series will work - and whatever you think of the general rubbish ITV put out, this is a brave piece of commissioning - but there seems to have been a glut of TV shows looking at writing and making TV shows.

Channel 4 had Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. With Aaron Sorkin and the West Wing team behind it - and the lovely Lucy Davis continuing to move away from "Dawn from The Office/Hayley from The Archers" territory - you feel it should have worked. Somehow it didn't, it just didn't gel and I wonder whether a similar fate awaits the Cornish based soap and the accompanying behind the scenes mockumentary.

The best show of this sort - and one of the best shows on TV at the moment - is 30 Rock on C5 late on Thursday nights. A witty, funny look behind the scenes of a Saturday Night Live type show, it has a cracking lead character in Liz Lemon - played by the superb writer/producer Tina Fey - and an amazing turn by Alec Baldwin as the company boss. Definitely worth watching.