ITV4 loves ya baby

ITV4's joining the ever-expanding world of digital TV on November 1 with a line-up that includes a new version of Kojak with Ving Rhames (he's got a lollipop and crimes to solve), Tom Sizemore in Robbery Homicide Division (no lollipop, just crimes), Wanted with Gary Cole (he's a SWAT veteran with an elite covert force solving crimes) and Michael Madsen in Vengeance Unlimited (which sounds like something Chuck Norris might have signed up for in the 1980s - he doesn't have a first name, or a past, but he'll help you get revenge if you do him a no-questions-asked favour later). They're also filling the schedules with shows that have already popped up on other channels - the always welcome Larry Sanders Show, plus Dream On, Dark Skies, Action, American Gothic, Homicide: Life On The Street, etc, etc. Does feel like it's getting harder to tell the difference between C4, E4, Five, Sky One and FX at the moment - you can imagine any of these shows sitting pretty comfortably in their schedules.