The best news I’ve heard for a while

ITV Play has been axed. YES!

Now if all the other quiz channels will go the same way, maybe we can have some decent late-night TV for the first time since every single commercial channel decided that they would be better off conning their viewers instead. We’ve already had music videos on the Hits and TMF after midnight, which is a great improvement (especially on TMF, which has otherwise turned itself into the Ally McBeal-and-Cribs channel) – now, hopefully that’ll become permanent.

See, the threat of Ofcom is good for something after all; things will be even better if they slap down Sky over their DTT subscription scheme and the Virgin Media fracas. Here’s hoping.