I was watching QI XL yesterday evening on Dave. Bill Bailey and Rich Hall were on the panel, along with hapless (and often hopeless) regular, Alan Davies, but I don’t remember ever seeing seen QI XL on BBC1 or BBC2 (although I have seen plain old QI numerous times). And, not yet having had my second coffee of the day, I don’t even have the energy to click the Google bookmark on my browser to search for answers. So what I shall do instead is just hypothesize willy-nilly, as it were, like all the best scientists do.

Here’s my theory: some shows, such as QI XL and Carpool, a car-based chat show hosted by that bloke who played the wooden butler in Red Dwarf (see? still not enough energy to google) have never appeared on any ‘proper’ channel before being shown on Dave or the ingeniously named Dave Ja Vu. It’s a bit like those high-numbered film sequels, such as Rocky 16, Halloween 23 or Police Academy 999: they all went, as the phrase goes, straight to video.

Clearly, certain programmes, like QI XL (that’s Roman for forty, isn’t it?) are destined to go straight to Dave. Obviously it’s no reflection on quality, since most anything with Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey and Rich Hall is guaranteed to be a good watch. Maybe Dave has huge cash reserves and thus lots more purchasing power than we realised. So here’s another theory: could Dave be the next Sky? Just imagine: the next World Cup tournament and all future England test matches — every one live on Dave. Yeah, dream on!