Life bereft of purpose after finishing Making a Murderer? Your columnist has good news: PiTV are pressing ahead with what promises to be an equally compelling webseries about a couple of lovelorn dweebs. Unwilling to let frivolities such as ability or practicality get in the way of doling out meaningless job titles, the ambitious rom-com is looking for over 50 crew members, including a showrunner and two assistant directors. The Sopranos, on the other hand, had to make do with just the one: proof, as if any was needed, that anything the professionals can do, Pi can do it twice as well. If by ‘anything’ you mean bureaucracy.
Meanwhile, UCL Cut the Rent – fresh from an appearance on BBC News – are already revelling in TV stardom. But have they been blinded by the limelight? The plucky refuseniks giddily tweeted news of an unlikely Corbyn endorsement last week – but it wasn’t from kindred spirit Jez. Instead, the revolutionaries were joined on the stump by his dishevelled big brother, climate-change-denying loon Piers (pictured). No news yet on whether he’ll be endorsing Fossil Free.