A BRAND new series for Sunday night was what we were promised.

Well, certainly Commercial Breakdown with Jimmy Carr on BBC1 last night was being broadcast for the first time in a nine week run.

But to call this programme brand new was stretching the point somewhat.

After all you can't really call a show in which a well-known comedian sits in a studio and pokes fun a foreign adverts as anything other than a repeat.

Poor old Jimmy is only doing what the likes of Chris Tarrant, Jasper Carrott and Harry Hill have done before.

It's an idea which has been around since the Eighties.

When our own TV is more often than not lacking in quality - go on who actually admits to watching Big Brother any more? - it's also quite strange to have a programme lampooning foreign' broadcasts.

However, there is one saving grace for Commercial Breakdown. And no it's not Jimmy Carr.

It's the chance to see again all those stilted public information films which anyone of a certain age' ie who grew up in the Seventies, will be able to repeat parrot fashion.

Now there's an idea.

Why not just show these golden oldies without any recourse to supposedly witty' comment.

That would be a new series that really would be worth watching on a Sunday evening.