Tonight I should have gone back to fencing, but not only did I actually see ice, but there was fog on my way home too. Given that I have to get there and back on a road I dislike in the dark at the best of times, I've saved it for next week.

But it did mean I got to watch Hustle live and not off a DVD, as I did for the first three series to catch up. I liked it, it was slick, it was British (the Terminal 5 joke!) and none of the characters had soap operas during it. Although at one point Robert Glenister in sunglasses looked so much like his brother I wondered if it had suddenly turned into Ashes to Ashes.

Compared to Leverage... Well, I am quite liking that they're revealing a little bit of each character each week, I'm just worried it'll be too much because it should be about the con, not the characters. And it is typically American (I don't know why, Hustle just seems slicker). But it does have explosions. So they're both good in their own little ways.

But it does make me think. I do like TV shoes with all plot and not much character background. For a start, you can start wherever you like. The Bill used to be like that when it was good. The Avengers is like that. An episode of The Professionals that I saw over Christmas was like that (I liked it, but not enough to tape it). Classic Doctor Who is like that. The best episodes of Stargate and Atlantis are like that.

Which is not to say that I don't like some character stuff. You just can't beat explosions.

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