Sunday Snooze TV

The sofa is always ridiculously seductive when the excesses of the weekend have taken their toll and all you have to look forward to is a long week at the office.

Now it’s being teamed with one of my favourite programmes of all time as Spooks makes a welcome return for its final – no doubt gripping – series.

Bur the fantastic spy show, which involves MI5 agents making a drama out of a crisis, requires concentration that I just don’t possess at 9pm on a Sunday.

The really rather dull Downton Abbey, which has the same slot on ITV from this weekend, requires far less attention and seems rather more suitable for a sleepy Sunday in your jim jams.

Spooks’ old Monday night slot suited it so much better and worked as a reward for getting through the first day of a rather bleak autumn week I always found.

Thankfully, scheduling is no longer an issue thanks to those fancy digital recorders.

So, on Sunday, I will be preparing for the new week nowhere near a TV screen and in two of my favourite places – St Mary’s Stadium and the pub.

A taped version of Spooks and a catalogue of twists, turns and cliffhangers will await me whenever I please.

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