Dear Fizzy and Tom, we regret to inform you..."

What are the BBC thinking?
At a recent briefing on a writing contest, we were told by various low level TV executives that the major stations were "crying out" for quality comedy to fill up their schedules.
You don't have to look hard to see why.
The vast majority of comedy produced in the UK is drivel, with the rest coming from the US.
What have you got? "Two pints..", "My Hero", "My Family" - with the obvious exception of "The Office" the BBC ain't exactly been pushing the envelope of late in terms of the sitcom.
Their coverage of stand up is even worse, for example their ultra lame stab at a "Saturday Night Live".
"The Floor Show", offering spots to people who are already making a mint out of stand up via their connections with The Stand Mafia, succeeded only in making Scottish stand up look cliched and amateurish.
And then we have, for some utterly inexplicable reason, half an hour of Jim Davidson every Friday night.
What does this guy have to do before he's bumped off the tele?
It really galls me when the stuff Tom and I submit to folk is send back to us with the advice that it's "too edgy" when this wife beating racist gets half an hour on the box every week. We're obviously not edgy enough.
I always thought battering women and spouting racist remarks was something you wanted to avoid rewarding someone for.
Following this logic, perhaps Jim should go back on the sauce, thus making a daily talk show in prime time almost inevitable.
The BBC ought to be utterly ashamed of themselves for giving this tube a show. There are literally thousands of funnier working comedians in the UK - the difference being that most of them don't pander to the vile Daily Express demographic the BBC are so shamelessly pursuing in this instance.