Expect a vacancy soon for a proofreader to work on Freeview’s EPG (Electronic Programme Guide), which is where I found this little howler.

Aside from the obvious question of how many BBC committee meetings it must have required in order to brainstorm the fantastically inventive title, The One Show (half a minute/back of a fag packet is my guess), one has to wonder if this is a genuine typo or a Freudian slip from one who is, perhaps not a fan of either The One Show or Louise Minchin. Well, I dunno. Maybe the EPG titlers are overworked and underpaid, as well as sometimes being poor judges of character; maybe the Minchin isn’t as lousie as you think.

Who’s that bloke on the left though? I’m sure I’ve seen him somewhere before.

Digital TV will mean oodles more choice, we thought; there’ll always be something new and exciting to watch.

Freeview viewers will know, of course, that we are all still stuck with the same five bog standard channels. Everything else is basically a ‘plus one’ channel, full of rehashed old tat: I swear that we’ve seen some of More4′s episodes of Location Location Location so many times that we can even quote huge chunks of dialogue from them, like some sort of poor man’s version of Star Wars or any other big-budget extravaganza you care to name. We’re working up to the point now where we can correctly forecast the prices of all the featured properties and can effectively play Locationx3 competitively; we call it ‘brain training’, although others might call it ‘being too brassic to afford a Sky subscription’. (Like we give a hoot.)

Today, Freeview’s notoriously fickle EPG (electronic programme guide) amused us with a little gaffe in its description of the 1955 flick, A Lawless Street. A law enforcement cowboy about to retire aims, said the EPG, to “go out in a blaze”. Oh dear. Whatever happened to the glory we were expecting, then? (Click the pic below to see the evidence writ large.) More brain training, or maybe proof-reading classes, required for that EPG employee pronto.