OK. This is weird. The members of the Official Derren Brown Forum have created a music CD called Inside Your Ears dedicated to their favourite bearded mentalist. The CD is available for download and includes such classics as “12 Bar Brown”, “Loaded Gun” and my personal favourite “Yo Derren”. You can’t make it up.

We were looking through our PVR recordings last night to decide what to watch on TV (we so rarely watch live TV these days), and thought we’d watch BBC1’s Life on Mars. We nearly didn’t record this as I’d decided I couldn’t be bothered to start a new Sci-Fi series, what with Channel 4’s Invasion and ITV2’s Surface just starting. Just as my finger hovered on the delete key Paula convinced me to leave it for the time being and I’m really glad we did: the first episode was a stonker. If you’ve missed what it’s about the BBC has (as usual) got loads of info and clips to watch. To summarise though: DCI John Simm is in the middle of a murder enquiry when he gets hit by a car. He awakes in 1973, still a copper and now withc a team investigating a very similar murder to the one he left back in 2006. He hears voices suggesting he’s in a coma and imagining it all; but is he? I had been concerned that the show would be a bit too naff and play up to the seventies too much, but I reckon they’ve got the balance just right. I can’t wait until next weeks episode. Check it out BBC Monday’s 9.00.

No suprise that Derren Brown’s latest offering Heist has been criticised, this time by the GMB a trade union representing security workers. I would criticise it on the basis that I didn’t think it was very good. Come on Derren, you can do WAY better than that. Oh and by the way the Fortean Times agrees with me - read their review here.

Can you believe it: Derek Acorah has a guest role in the new series of Doctor Who (thanks BDO) SFX quotes an interview for the Manchester Evening News where Derek says he has “just filmed Doctor Who” where “The Doctor finds that spirits and ghosts have invaded the whole of the galaxy so he gets me along to see what we can do about it”. Weird stuff. The scene - inside some spaceship, all filmed in green-middle-of-the-night-oh-vision. The Doctor looks sceptical with a clipboard, and taking readings with his Sonic Screwdriver. Rose looking bored finally glances up at Derek, and says : “What can you see Derek? Can Sam see anything?” Derek - finger pointing from forehead starts marching around: “Ex? Exter? Ex-Ter-Min-Ate. What does that mean Sam?”