This seems to be the month for me encountering TV programmes which I can't quite believe are real.

Recently I heard of ‘Sudoku Live’, and I was honestly convinced it was a joke. Then the Gallery caught thirty seconds of it on Friday evening; it isn't. Someone has genuinely turned Sudoku into live television.

I assumed that was a one-off, but today my credulity was strained again by catching sight of a newspaper's TV listing which contained ‘Ann Widdecombe To The Rescue’.

At times like this I want to say ‘you couldn't make it up’, except that somebody evidently could!