Is this World Series Cricket over again? I think not, but Channel 10 is obviously aiming to have a bit of fun - and draw some audiences - with its XXXX Gold Beach Cricket series over summer. With stars like Allan Border, Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson, even I might watch. More here.

The Germans have given us Oktoberfest, the BMW, The Woman Before and now the "separation agency". Businessman Bernd Dressler, nicknamed "The Terminator", charges people to inform their significant others that they are no longer wanted. The 52-year-old former dating-agency owner says his new venture is not too different. "If you want to have a new partnership, then you have to quit your previous one," he says. "I think it's the same market - just in reverse."

"Hitler, there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two coats!" So says Franz Leibkind in Mel Brooks' The Producers. But the real-world sale of some of Hitler's watercolours and sketches in England has been no laughing matter. The event was gatecrashed by self-styled "comedy terrorists" and condemned as being in "very bad taste" by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre.

An article in today's Courier-Mail has Australia's Funniest Home Videos host Toni Pearen saying that she doesn't pay too much attention to criticisms such as a recent newspaper article calling her a "pissy" celebrity. I have no issue with Pearen at all - in fact, I met her many years ago when she was doing a stage show in Brisbane and found her to be a bright and charming person. I do have an issue with her show, though. I don't watch it, but from what I've seen on the promos, it just amounts to "funny" footage of people - often children - and animals being hurt. A few years ago, I saw a group of boys filming each other riding wheely bins down an innercity street in the hope of winning a prize on the show. How would Pearen, or her producers, have felt if these kids had