Former weathergirl Ulrika Jonsson, 41, defied the 12-1 odds against her by winning Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother, only to announce "it's a fix" and be booed out of the studio by fans who wanted Mini-Me actor Vernon Troyer, the odds-on favourite, to win. C4 was quick to deny any such thing, pointing out that the Electoral Reform Society had overseen the voting (which rather defies comment). And this is the C4 that is supposed to act as the core of the government's new public service broadcaster, possibly in cahoots with BBC World. In the meantime Jonathan Ross returned to BBC 1, the other public service broadcaster of course, with an audience of five million (about 25 per cent up) for his chat show, his comeback after the Sachsgate scandal when Wossy and Russell Brand left rude messages on veteran actor Andrew Sach's voicemail. And BBC director general Mark Thompson wrote on the Beeb's website that the corporation refused to run a charity appeal for humanitarian aid to Gaza because it might have compromised its journalistic "impartiality." What he probably meant was that the Israeli team of super-charged spin doctors, like Australian Mark Regev, would have moaned at him. Is television mad, bad or just dangerous to work in?