With two new series to get stuck into I expected to be in for a TV treat - and even shunned a night at the pub for one curled up on the sofa. But what a disappointment lay ahead.
First up, the new series of Benidorm began. I know not everybody liked the first series of this swinging comedy set in the Spanish resort -- but I thought it was great.
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The second series however seemed to be missing the spark of the first somehow, or maybe the idea of the tacky picture of holiday hell had just grown tired?
What I am sure about is that Johnny Vegas - one of the biggest stars of the show - was criminally under-used. Maybe he was ill during filming?
Next up was Ade Edmondson's new much-hyped programme Teenage Kicks.
Surely that would make up for the Costa-del-disappointment?
But no, the first episode of this mildly humourous (think a less funny version of My Family) domestic sitcom left me yawning and considering an early night.
The show has been adapted from a Radio 2 comedy and stars Edmondson as Vernon, an ageing punk rocker who moves into his kids' student flat after a divorce.
Hilarity supposedly ensued, although for me it never really got much further than some half-hearted puns.
Edmondson would have been better doing a continuation of the adventures of Vyvyan from The Young Ones.
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