Via my good friends at Londonist, here’s a wonderfully concise advertisement for the BBC’s Manchester-based Life on Mars series:

There is a piece in today’s MEN diary about LetsGoGlobal.tv, which has launched the UK’s first for-the-internet sitcom. I was hoping to post an episode of The Lift, but sadly it’s not on YouTube just yet. Fear not though: you can watch it on LGG’s own site. But before you go, please enjoy Frank Sidebottom’s eloquent ode:

This video – part of last July’s Urban Moves Festival – is pretty self-explanatory. To be honest, I’m glad I didn’t see them in the city centre – I would have just cringed. But if you’re all for ‘freedom in dance performance’, you’ll find further videos on this page.

I was both taken aback and exciting to read that Steven Patrick Morrissey is in talks with the BBC to write and possibly perform the UK’s entry for Eurovision 2007. “I was horrified but not surprised to see the UK fail,” he said of Stockport’s Daz Sampson’s fifth-from-last position last year. “Why didn’t they ask me?”

This video is for his 2006 single You Have Killed Me, which featured ‘a pastiche of the kitsch Eurovision competitions of the 1970s’. Morrissey previously worked with the UK’s first Eurovision winner, Sandie Shaw, in the 1980s.