How long, in this age of, ah, the internet and stuff, can our TV channels broadcast reality TV programmes such as Rock Star: INXS that run here well behind where they were made.

You'd think they'd learn from the plummeting interest in progs like The Bachelor that viewers just get impatient. And bored.

Mind you, according to the latest issue of TV Guide, the interminable US soap Days of our Lives in NZ is running five years behind the US. Coronation Street, according to those who know such things, is months behind. How people stay glued every week eludes me.

If you need to know who won the right to front INXS (though a rumour printed in the Sydney Morning Herald suggested that they might take more than one of the final three on tour), the answer is here.

And how lame are those local 'star' singing shows? Lame. Still waiting, also, for some real humour from The Unauthorised History of New Zealand. Angela D'Audney was great, but too much is puerile. And not funny.