Telly horrors

In Competition No. 2391 you were invited to offer six unappealing programmes, together with a TV critic’s unpersuasive recommendation.

This week I feel, like Macbeth, that ‘I have supped full of horrors’. Ohne mich! as they say in Berlin. I have reduced the main prizewinners’ entries by one item each in order to include a few extra single felicities. So Brian Murdoch gets £30, the five other main winners get £20 each, and the single-time merchants £5 apiece. Thank you all. I was greatly amused.

Mean City!: In the search for Britain’s most average town we go north of the border to see whether Cowdenbeath can match last week’s powerful entry from Chigwell.
Bowl to Bowl: A miracle micro-camera gives us amazing pictures as it follows the path through the human gut of a bowl of cornflakes from the packet to flushing the loo.
Your 100 Best TV House Renovation Moments: A two-and-a-half-hour treat for DIY buffs.
Fat Cats: Celebrities discuss their obese pets. This week Tara Palmer-Tomkinson tells us all about her overweight gerbils.
Who Spoke Tokharian B?: Unmissable investigation of a problem that has baffled Indo-European philologists since records of the language, which died out in the Middle Ages, were discovered about a century ago.
Brian Murdoch

First-Time Buyers: In which people from all walks of life recount their experiences of purchasing a house for the first time. Tonight, John Roehampton takes us through the highs and lows of buying a bungalow.
Household Chores: Compulsive viewing — reality TV at its best. The programme focuses (in real time) on families completing those everyday tasks we normally never think twice about — an eye-opener.
The Cold War: Examines the remarkable thesis that during the Blitz significantly lower numbers of Londoners suffered from the common cold, and asks, why was this?
Live Football from Scotland: Lossiemouth v.