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Guess which channel the Express recommends at Easter?

Richard Desmond
The Easter bunny? No it's Richard Desmond. Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

The Daily Express has taken the Daily Mail's favourite seasonal TV repeats whinge story to another level. "Channel 5 to the rescue with film magic at Easter", trumpets P15 of today's Express. The story claims that from Good Friday to Easter Monday terrestial television will feature repeats of 34 films, while just two new films will air, Tinkerbell and err ... royal romance William and Kate. And guess where you can find those two movies? That's right. Channel 5. Which also happens to be owned by ... Daily Express proprietor Richard Desmond.

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