Phil Gyford

Some things are so simple that almost no site has managed to produce them. One is a decent cinema guide. Every UK cinema guide seems teeth-gnashingly clumsy. A guide to UK TV is another. I just want the equivalent of a newspaper’s TV page, nothing fancy. Having given up on this quest months ago I recently discovered the Guardian’s TV guide. It doesn’t show you what’s on lots of channels at the same time. It doesn’t let you save your personal channel configuration. It doesn’t highlight different genres with different pastel shades. It just describes what’s on every channel. It’s quite a relief.