Ack II... Not much point in even trying to sleep once it's gone 4am. I've been sniffing round the edges of an idea and I was wondering if anyone out there can think of any TV shows that instead of jumping the shark reversed their fortunes and had the shark eat Fonzie. I don't mean shows that got off to a shaky start and eventually pulled through into something decent. What I'm after is a show so bad that everyone gave up on it, that no one took it seriously and then suddenly the thing just switched direction and gears and became must-watch-TV. Think Hollyoaks suddenly morphing into a Japanese pink zombie series with the original cast and sets retained only to be eaten through by half-naked zombie cheerleaders. A change in direction is what I'm after - something in which the original concept was just thrown to the wolves and not simply left to die like when the close in Brookside was quarantined by the army. Think an established (but so established it's predictable drivel) show suddenly switching into a genre piece. Like if the Eastenders Christmas Special had the inhabitants of Albert Square struck down with an alien pathogen and a handful of the uninfected struggling to come to terms with their crappy soap lives changing into Quatermass. Think a character with a twenty year lowest common denominated back story suddenly dropped into a David Cronenberg flick... It's no wonder I can't sleep. Watching TV that doesn't exist is not like counting sheep. [Music: off]