TS must to admit to a particular fondness for TV’s Bad Girls and Footballers’ Wives ­ all the smut, violence and scandal on show is just the kind of relaxation needed after a long day on the TS desk.

So we were disappointed to find that the FD of Shed Productions, which makes the titillating dramas, did not share TS’ enthusiasm. Jonathan Kemp told us that being on set is ‘not that exciting’.

Isn’t it? TS can think of one particularly raunchy scene in Footballers’ Wives on a private jet that must surely have been pretty engrossing, even being described by leading lady Zoe Lucker (pictured) as ‘soft porn’.

Still, preparing a balance sheet must have its own charms.