{"id":385399,"date":"2026-01-23T03:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385399\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:36:08","slug":"when-the-news-is-stranger-than-fiction-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385399\/","title":{"rendered":"When the news is stranger than fiction | Television"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was surprised that your feature (\u2018What did I just watch?\u2019 The TV shows that utterly baffle us \u2013 but\u00a0we\u00a0can\u2019t switch off, 20 January<\/a>) did not include a mention of the popular show News at Ten. When I started watching this years ago, the plotlines more or less made sense, but recently they\u2019ve become increasingly deranged, particularly since the introduction of the weirdly orange-coloured character, \u201cDonald\u201d. However, like many people, I am glued to the show with a mixture of horror and fascination.
Clare Griffel
Bristol<\/p>\n

Maybe we should forget the peace prize<\/a> and award Donald Trump the Nobel prize in physics for his ability to distort reality?
Tom Stewart
Romsey, Hampshire<\/p>\n

As President Trump is getting weirder by the minute, could someone just check the spelling<\/a> of his \u201cBored of Peace\u201d committee?
Ian Grieve
Steyning, West Sussex<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t think my daily newspaper would ever cost \u00a33.20. But this is not a complaint \u2013 not when Richard Smyth\u2019s column (Country diary, 21 January<\/a>) arrives with such erudition, poetry and joy.
John Clarke
Wakefield, West Yorkshire<\/p>\n

What is the most northerly instance in the UK of the perception of \u201csouth\u201d (Letters, 20 January<\/a>)? One prime candidate would be one of Scotland\u2019s most northerly counties, Sutherland \u2013 the southern land, called this by the Norse rulers of Orkney, Caithness and Sutherland, from the ninth century.It is indeed all relative.
Moira Fleming
Jedburgh, Scottish Borders<\/p>\n

Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email<\/a> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was surprised that your feature (\u2018What did I just watch?\u2019 The TV shows that utterly baffle us…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-385399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}