Only a quick one to register my delight that the BBC's school-based drama series, Waterloo Road, has been recommissioned for not eight (series one), not twelve (series two), but twenty new hour-long episodes for a forthcoming third series.

This means the show, whose second season ended tonight, will presumably run for nigh on five months when it returns this autumn, sitting it alongside the likes of Casualty and Holby City in the BBC schedules as a long-term commitment for its viewers.

I only started watching a couple of episodes into the second series, but it's some of the most consistently excellent television I've seen in a long time, and for me it's up alongside Life On Mars and Dr Who as the best drama TV has to offer at the moment. Any show where a burger van plays an integral role in a murder has to be worth its salt. And vinegar.