This is the kind of news that warms the cockles of an old curmudgeon’s heart.

Charlie Brooker (consistently the funniest newspaper columnist to put ink on paper, grouchy old so and so, creator of Screenwipe (the episode he did on how news programmes work was a better dissection of the workings of television than anything I found in a four year media degree course), an “out” geek and promoter of quality sf to the masses) is to write a horror show for Channel 4 (well, he’s calling it horror, the head of C4 is calling it a thriller) called Dead Set.

As one of only three people in the world who loved Nathan Barley (which Brooker co-wrote), I’m officially excited.

And a further example of the way genre material is penetrating UK TV production.