Meanwhile, on Twitter...

• 09:45 Honour forbids me but honour be damned. #
• 10:14 Don't mock fat people. They have enough on their plates already. #
• 11:36 I think those twins from the X-Factor are prime candidates for vivisection. #
• 15:25 Only just realised by Omar Epps from House looked familiar. Carter's co-intern back in the day in ER, who fell in front of an El Train. #
• 17:08 The BBC filed the report of Roman Polanski getting arrested for having sex with a 13 year old under their "Entertainment" section. Nonces. #
• 17:42 And to think, until now Roman Polanski was the only thing the French hadn't surrendered. #
• 17:44 On that subject - try installing the French language version of Windows and you'll find it runs faster. #
• 17:54 And for those of you who might consider my jokes about the French to be xenophobic, you'll find the correct term to describe me is "English" #
• 23:55 About the child sex charges, Roman Polanski's said he's in a "fighting mood". He'd better be, if he wants to have a shower anytime soon. #

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Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child

I'm not in the habit of cutting and pasting entire articles to this journal, but every now and again one comes alone that I just can't help wanting to reproduce.

This is one.

Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child
Finally arrested 32 years after he fled sentencing for unlawful sex with a minor, the director is ... a big hero?
Kate Harding

Roman Polanski raped a child. Let's just start right there, because that's the detail that tends to get neglected when we start discussing whether it was fair for the bail-jumping director to be arrested at age 76, after 32 years in "exile" (which in this case means owning multiple homes in Europe, continuing to work as a director, marrying and fathering two children, even winning an Oscar, but never -- poor baby -- being able to return to the U.S.). Let's keep in mind that Roman Polanski gave a 13-year-old girl a Quaalude and champagne, then raped her, before we start discussing whether the victim looked older than her 13 years, or that she now says she'd rather not see him prosecuted because she can't stand the media attention. Before we discuss how awesome his movies are or what the now-deceased judge did wrong at his trial, let's take a moment to recall that according to the victim's grand jury testimony, Roman Polanski instructed her to get into a jacuzzi naked, refused to take her home when she begged to go, began kissing her even though she said no and asked him to stop; performed cunnilingus on her as she said no and asked him to stop; put his penis in her vagina as she said no and asked him to stop; asked if he could penetrate her anally, to which she replied, "No," then went ahead and did it anyway, until he had an orgasm.

Can we do that? Can we take a moment to think about all that, and about the fact that Polanski pled guilty to unlawful sex with a minor, before we start talking about what a victim he is? Because that would be great, and not nearly enough people seem to be doing it.

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Dinosaurs live again

I find myself pleased by the news that after the sudden axe a few months ago, Primeval has been saved from the scrapyard by a deal which sees ITV sharing the bill for two new seasons with digital channel Watch, with some of the cost being born by BBC Worldwide as well. (Curious to see the BBC paying for one of their rival's big hits, but they hold the worldwide distribution rights, so financially it's a sound deal.)

Apparently Andrew Lee Potts, Jason Flemyng and Hannah Spearritt are all signed up to return to the show.

I'm glad about this because A) The show had stepped up its game dramatically with the arrival of Jason Flemyng and B) They left the damn show on a cliffhanger. Oh and C) It brings hope for other popular sci-fi that the axe doesn't have to be permanent.

The only bad thing is that the new eps are delayed until 2011, which is a long gap between series.

Demons, thankfully, isn't returning.