C’mon, you must be living on Mars if you haven’t heard about the saviour of Gretna FC, whose money and barking madness won the 2^nd Division title and took the club to a Cup Final showdown with Hearts. I must admit that that suspicious, thrawn, cynical part of me, (you know, the Scottish bit) had me looking for an angle. But after watching "Gretna’s Field of Dreams" the Beeb’s excellent two-parter on the man and the club, I just can’t find it.

Mileson may be as daft as a meeting of monkeys, but if he’s mad then I wish that other entrepreneurs, especially those who buy into clubs in the lower divisions, were mad like him. The documentary charted a club not only electrifying media coverage of the terminally boring lower reaches of our national game, but also demonstrating how philanthropic intent can make a difference to the local community.

Of course, the sainted Shankley was wrong to say that fitba’ was more important than life and death, but "Gretna’s Field of Dreams" chronicled how Mileson could take success on the pitch and take that success into the schools and beyond. Witness the funding of drugs education projects and of soccer schools introducing kids to the sheer fun and beauty of kicking a ball about.

OK, so maybe something’s going to come up that will reveal Mileson to be an eater of babies but, until then, he unequivocally wins The JT’s businessman of the year award. Oh, and the fitba’? Well, there’s a lot been written about how the Gretna story reads like fiction and certainly you couldn’t have scripted those fantastic 120 minutes at Hampden last week.

Talking of fiction, (he wrote in a not at all laboured link) what’s happening in North West England at the minute? I’ve written previously about how Manchester and its environs have been producing great drama and comedy over the last few years: Shameless, Phoenix Nights, Early Doors etc. (honestly I have, it's in the archive somewhere) and what can you say about "The Street"? I’m sure Jimmy McGovern will go on to produce more sharp as tack character-driven drama but, if he dropped deid tomorrow, "The Street" would be a more than fitting epitaph. A ronde in six parts, McGovern weaves a magic carpet of interlinking stories that alight on one or two of the street’s inhabitants each week. If you haven’t seen this show, you’ve missed career best performances from Jim Broadbent and Timothy Spall, if you have seen it you’re probably asking the same question as me: what’s happening in Scottish television?

I can’t remember the last time anything from STV or BBC Scotland was worth watching in the drama field. I don’t believe for a moment that there aren’t writers and scripts out there, here, if you see what I mean, that could at least grip as tightly as McGovern’s adult and intelligent writing. The commissioners at STV and the BBC seem to be in thrall to the tropes of gritty crime drama and McEastenders genre soaps. I can see a place for the Taggarts and Rebuses of this world, I can even see, at a push, a place for River City, God help me, but is there no place for drama like The Street that forces you to reflect again on what it is to be human?

Oh, before moving on, a big up in da house (or whatever it is the young people say) to Jim for spotting that my "quite brilliant...compelling" actually, no, pretty weak pisstake of Doctor Finlay suffered somewhat from sloppy editing with Doctor Finlay somehow eliding into Doctor Simpson. What do you mean you never even noticed?

And talking of not very good writing (look! I’ve done it again) Oh, Christ in Heaven, what about "Feel The Force"? I have to be honest , I only watched the first episode of this achingly un-funny comedy so if it's got good since, I apologise. All I saw were two great comedy actresses (the sainted Michelle Gomez and, er, another one) (Rosie Cavaliero - SO) being left high and dry by a godawful central conceit – the main characters were clinically insane and the other characters weren’t.

Jesus, how funny is that? Not very as it turns out.

OK, I can hear you all going, "Oh Christ he’s going to rabbit on about Father Ted again." Half right smart arse. I’m going to rabbit on about Linehan’s latest creation, "The IT Crowd". Spot the difference, Linehan gives us two insane central characters but he adds jokes in. You know, gags.

Based on her turns in "The Book Group" and "Green Wing" I unequivocally consider Michele Gomez one of the best comedians working but this unfunny farce does her no favours. The sad bit is the second run of Green Wing finished Friday just past, while Feel The Force struggles on. There’s no justice is there?

And just before I dismount from my high horse, what is it with BBC Scotland and cop (ahem) "comedies" ? Remember the career-destroying mess that was "Snoddie"? Brrrr, horrible.