2010 In TV- Autumn

At this time of year, most British channels are simply looking to beef up their line-up with a couple of surprise series sure to gain favour with their viewers. Sky One provided an unexpected gem in Karl Pilkington's An Idiot Abroad as we saw the titular idiot exploring the Seven Wonders of the World and providing his hilarious opinions on them (of the Great Wall of China: "Yeah, it goes up and down and over the hills, but so does the M4!") while being plagued by Ricky Gervais' irritating cackling all the way. Digital channel E4 finally culminated its weekly run-through of Smallville Season Nine (22 episodes long, so as you can imagine it took a while)- now where's Season 10, is what the fans like myself are asking? BBC One reimagined popular animated hits Wallace & Gromit in their first non-fictional show World Of Invention, where each week clips of the characters speaking on a topic would be inter-cut with real-world interviews on that scientific debate. It proved much more interesting than we might have though, injecting some humour into science. As always, Autumn wasn't a busy time for British television- it's Christmas where it's at!