'Tis the year for FTV to explode (and hopefully not implode too embarrassingly...).  I'm not referring to the cable TV channel that both perplexes and fascinates people (I like to watch it when I don't want to think about what I'm watching and just mindlessly be glued to the screen...).  I'm talking about fashion TV programmes in general.  I'll be expanding my gripes and grievances in due course but for now, I'll say that I think the TV channels in the UK seem eager to rectify the problems.  Channel 4'S Gok's Fashion Fix is a nudge in an ok direction even if there are many cringey moments and their preoccupation with 'price' and 'fashion' is a little irksome.  Now we have something from BBC2 entitled...'Twiggy's Frock Exchange' hosted by duh...Twiggy (couldn't find a picture of what she looks like currently that does her justice...), Lauren Laverne who I have loved since her Kenickie days and she never irritates me despite being on a show that could throw up some contentious issues 'The Culture Show' and finally Paula Reed, fash editor of Grazia magazine who seems to have become the unofficial representative talking head on the subject of fashion on British TV.

From the flyer I gather it's a show encouraging clothes swapping with audience members getting involved with all the fun... is it in some sort of gameshow format?  What will Lauren Laverne have to offer?  Will Paula Reed pronounce everybody's swap offerings as 'absolutely hideous'?  Who knows...  But like the FTV mug that I am, and since I want to absorb my hobby through a lazy medium that doesn't involve spending a fortune at Borders and enables me to be the natural couch potato that I am, I'll certainly tune in to see what the dealio is with Twiggy getting everyone to swap their frocks...