THERE seem to be a lot of new dramas being screened at the moment.
The success of big budget television shows on pay to view services like Netflix and Amazon Prime, have left no-one in doubt of the current power of the small screen.
Previously seen as the poor relation to the silver screen, television continues to enjoy a renaissance.
High power stars are lining up to be in these productions - which are often in excess of ten hours of feature film quality viewing.
Twenty years ago, you would never see an A-lister appearing in a television series but the likes of Kevin Spacey in House of Cards and the huge success of Orange is the new Black, the Wire, Sons of Anarchy and Breaking Bad mean it is no longer the place a career goes to die.
More than likely it will be revived and lead to even better big screen offers.
But the BBC and even ITV are not going to let the Satellite Channels get away with all the spoils.
They too have been calling on some big names for their shows this year.
Stellan Skaarsgard, already a major name thanks to big roles in Good Will Hunting, the Thor movies and a host of others, brought his talents to River on the BBC earlier this year while Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie in the Night Manager is possibly one of my top ten highlights of the televisual year so far.
While they may have peaked fairly early on with this and also the lavish War and Peace adaptation, the current run of the Missing is still quality fair.
My one criticism would be that it is all a bit gloomy.
The Missing centres around a teenager who turns up more than a decade after being abducted in Germany.
I don't think it is a plot spoiler to reveal nothing good happened to her during that time.
Even the new series of Ordinary Lies, whose first outing at least had a bit of humour at its centre at times, started with a very hard-hitting tale of child abuse and the moral question of installing CCTV in order to spy on your own family.
To quote the late great Terry Wogan, there wasn't a lot of laughs there either.
By Saturday night I am well up for a bit of glamour and sparkle in the form of Strictly Come Dancing.
Maybe that is what's called striking a balance ?