The Hart has Gone from British Television no comments

It's almost like an era is ending.

Last week Patrick McGoohan, Oliver Postgate and Tony Hart, this week John Scott Martin. It's not a year to be a British television actor in your eighties.

[Also Ricardo Montalban, not strictly British but fondly remembered.]

Apparently "Channel Four should merge with Channel Five or BBC Worldwide and become a rival to the BBC, TV watchdogs suggested". I'm not sure how BBC Worldwide would "become a rival to the BBC", and even less sure why it would want to. I expect that it's the usual story of financial wizards shooting themselves in the foot. Pit one branch of the BBC against another . . . and the BBC loses.