I missed Culture Show! And there were Charlie Brooker and Daily Show people too! Stupid Eurovision. I voted for Sweden - they were glam rockers and just like T-Rex. Well, not just like T-Rex cos they were rubbish, obviously, but still. And I'm sure they did an homage to that famous Bowie performance of Starman.
 

I didn't catch Eurovision. And I musta missed the Daily Show guys on the Culture Show (Doh!)...I only tuned in halfaway through, which I do pretty much every Saturday. Charlie Brooker was fine, but it was a bit of a soft target (Any Dream Will Do / Grease Is The Word), however creatively he dealt with it. It's like shooting monkeys in a barrel. But yeah, the 'Street Chess' item was fascinating. You see people playing Chess in Central Park or wherever on US TV all the time, but I never really knew how the tradition sprung up. I thought it was a great, unusual subject, with a great soudtrack, and it can only be a matter of time before somebody does a proper hip 'investigation of a sub-culture' documentary about it, a la 'Scratch' (hip-hop), Dog Town & The Z Boys (skateboarding) or that great Spelling Bee movie that came out a few years back. I tend to enjoy the stuff on The Culture Show I know nothing about (fashion etc) more than the stuff about subjects I already follow.