Honda flew the nest at the end of last season which has prompted ITV to seek out a new sponsor ahead of the F1 season starting next Sunday.

Initial reports indicated that a figure of around £5million was anticipated to be required to claim the rights however the rumours are that Sony’s new contract will only see ITV claim £3million - still a pretty penny.   No doubt ITV were hoping the Lewis-factor would have loosened the pursestrings in boardooms around the globe, however it was not to be.

So why would a company want to associate themselves with F1?

This season of Lost has been a cracker so far.

It seems that now the programme makers have a set date for ending they are fairly rattling along with the storyline - hopefully they will have enough action left to fill the remaining episodes!

The worst part is that due to the writer’s strike we won’t be getting all 16 episodes this year, with the season reduced to 13 although the producers have promised to make this up to us at some point.  I doubt that they would increase the length of remaining seasons so perhaps this extra content will come our way before next season starts to act as a build-up - that would be good!

For the past few years The Stig has featured as the resident fast driver on BBC 2’s Top Gear programme, and as he is always referred to by this name and always wears his racing suit and helmet with darkened visor, noone knows for sure who he is.

Because of this there has been wild speculation about his identity and seemingly every famous and fast driver has been linked to the role - everyone from Damon Hill and Lewis Hamilton to Richard Hammond.

This man never fails to amaze and surprise!

Normally he explains whatever it is he has done at the end of his shows, but it stills takes a little bit of understanding though with this it was like a switch was flicked as everything clicked into place.

The basic premise was that we followed the life of Kadesha, a woman who had been given tips by Derren (although she didn’t know who they were from at the time) on which horse would win a succession of races.

Sky+ is really annoying me at the moment - recordings on certain channels are jumping about all over the place making them pretty much unwatchable which defeats the purpose of recording them in the first place.

With Christmas coming up there are a few programmes I want to watch but may not be able to see them “live” so to speak - the current problems make me wonder whether there is any point in even setting it though.

Have had a look around a few forums and there doesn’t seem to be a definitive answer.  Switching it off and turning it back on (before recording) does seem to do the trick but isn’t exactly ideal.