You can't move for Liverpool sons and daughters either making programmes about or returning to the city this year.
The last of Alexei Sayle's series on Liverpool will be screened on BBC2 tonight, with Les Dennis's paean waiting in the TV wings.
Yesterday teatime it was the turn of Peter Sissons who gave the latest in JMU's series of 2008 Roscoe Lectures - entitled City of Media.
Or rather, as Sissons decided, it was a look at how Liverpool was served by and portrayed in the media.
There wasn't anything we hadn't heard before or didn't know but it was an engaging enough hour at St George's Hall - and at least the 66-year-old hasn't held a grudge after being turned down for a job by the Daily Post at the start of his career.
He told the audience in his estimation the city was very well served by the Echo and the Daily Post who both had a strong campaigning heritage, and he recalled as a child being sent out by his mum every night to buy a copy of the Echo which would then be pored over for half the evening as it was synonymous with the word newspaper and generated such Scouse gems as "you couldn't punch a hole in a wet Echo."
He was more scathing about how the city has been served over the years by Granada however, and of course there was much talk about the vilification from the national media.
The extremely well-spoken Oxford graduate amusingly told us he was first hired by ITN because it "needed a bit of Liverpool rough".
And he said: "In the last 44 years I hope I've been an influence in newsrooms in which I've sat and I hope I've never knowingly let Liverpool down."
The newscaster also had a thing or two to say about the laziness of the national press when it wrote things about the city, saying it was true Liverpool had not had a fair deal at their hands.
But, rather sensibly I thought, he concluded: "Perhaps we should be a little more stoical and a little less touchy. As John F Kennedy said - forgive your enemies. But remember their names."
