It was Norm wasn't it, the big fat slob in that ad who sat all day watching sport instead of getting out and exercising?

You see there was one event that was unmissable for me, and that was the Santos Tour Down Under, three or four hours - or, on one occasion more - for six days on WIN or its other station.

The two Tour de France commentators, Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen, were in their usual fine form well aided by Robbie McEwan.

What was lacking was the camerawork you see on the Tour or Giro D'Italia etc. 

Rarely did you see the faces of the cyclists - far too much of it was from the helicopter.

The sentimental favourite, Cadel Evans, didn't win and came third, but it was great to see his teammate Rohan Dennis take the ochre jersey and now that Cadel has left I have someone to barrack for in Le Tour and so on.

Then of course there was the Australian Tennis Open and much more interest than usual as Aussies did so well in the first two rounds.

I also liked it that if you didn't want to watch the match on Prime you could switch to SevenTwo and see a different match.

With tennis and the tour, that was a lot of viewing.

A GEM of a program was on the ABC on Saturday night.

The Darkside was a collection of indigenous ghost and supernatural stories collected by the director of Samson and Delilah, Warwick Thornton.

I didn't realise at first but they were voiced by indigenous actors and I did think that the first few ghost story tellers were very at home in front of  the camera. 

Then on came a bearded man who I'd seen in a lot of movies, and then Deborah Mailman.

The scripts were based on interviews with the storytellers.

The presentation of these stories was great.

You didn't always see the storyteller, there were voice-overs with art illustrating the story, or just film.

The sound was also a major part underlining the stories, which were fascinatingly varied.

If you missed Darkside, look it up ion iView or wherever you can pick up programs already screened.

TWO British comedies are being screened on  SBS on Monday night, Uncle and Man Down.

Forget Man Down – it just doesn't work, but Uncle has some very funny moments.