Tail chasing

Would you expect an automated phone call from your phone service provider to get you to confirm or reject an engineer's appointment you made in order to correct a "dead" phone line to be made to you on the very number you're having a problem with? Answers on a pigeon pointed at India, please.
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Some TV reviews:

Being Human - A series too far. Stop it, now.

Top Gear - An anachronism starring an actually intelligent man pretending to be an idiot, an actual idiot, and a decent bloke who knows which side his bread is buttered on. Stop it, now.

Family Guy - Thanks to Phill. I'm a late convert to this grossly offensive but often hilarious American rubbish. Seth MacFarlane is a comedy genius. The vomit scene is spectacular and rupture-inducingly funny in a really baaad way.

A tough rock

The Great British Countryside - I'm a sucker for this kind of thing, and was relieved to find out that I wouldn't have to put up with that ubiquitous over-hirsute Scot staring significantly into the middle distance from the top of a hill or a cliff for once.

Given that it is broadcast at 8 o'clock in the evening when kids who want to learn something should be watching, Hugh Dennis describing granite extrusions that survive the battering of the sea as "tough rocks", and the 21st C Anneka Rice that is Julia Bradbury describing our hinterland as "very old" is forgivable, just.

However, I'm not too sure about Bradbury asking a surfer what it is that attracts his kind to Newquay as huge breakers crashed on the beach in the near distance though. I might have to watch the next episode with the sound off.
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My friend Barry is the only person I've come across who openly admits to disliking National Treasure Stephen Fry, who he finds "condescending" "supercilious" "smug" and a few other choice adjectives. He reckons a few of his friends think the same way. Don't be too hard on him, he is a fan of the dwarf throwing game after all...;)