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Let's Get Naked, you and I. That, at least, was the promise behind the BBC2 documentary Dawn...Gets Naked.

And that wasn't an invitation I was going to turn down even if the show was a repeat of a programme originally shown on BBC3.

It's always revealing to get a glimpse behind the scenes of TV dramas like Robson Green's Wire in the Blood.

But I do wish our TV people would call a drama a drama.

According to pre-publicity from both Robson and executive producer Sandra Jobling the violent show is not a drama at all.

It is, apprentlty, a brand.

Robson Green has a big one.
We know it's a big one because he is constantly boasting about it in his new series.
Examples include: "Look at the size of that."
Then there's "Will you look at that, man." and "Oh wow, look at that."
And again: "Oh man, did you see that,"
I did see the size of it and I'm not impressed.

Thank you, Tim Healy, for perpetuating the image of Geordies as thickos.

That was sarcasm, by the way, I didn't really mean thank you.

Tim appeared in the 1960s Northumberland cop show George Gently as a pig farmer who was intellectually-challenged.

A smug b+++++d has made his return to Police Camera Action.

Remember Alistair Stewart. He was the finger-wagging tut-tutting holier than thou presenter of the series on dangerous drivers.

The same Alistair Stewart who got nicked for drunk driving.

So he did it.

Lying Lee McQueen won the latest series of The Apprentice despite lying on his CV. God help us if that is a typical example of the recruiting process of British businesses.