Where's Dave?

David Letterman is celebrating 25 years on the air this week. He debuted on February 1st 1982 and remains at the top of his game. During that time the show has been screened here on the Paramount Comedy Channel, SKY One, ITV2 and most recently ITV4. When he was in London for a week the show aired on BBC2. But now - nothing. Since ITV dropped the series to make way for presumably more X Factor spin-off repeats and sixth runs of Jean Claude Van Damme movies, there has been silence.

OK, I appreciate the fact that its expensive and that it needs to come over on a satellite every night but really is nobody prepared to shell out for it??? Is there no room in the sprawling Channe4/E4/More4 schedule? Would it not fit quite nicely into the wasteland that is Five US? Isn't Dave a better use of Bravo's money than shortlived stuff like Daybreak?

I'm a big Jon Stewart fan and enjoy Jay Leno from time to time, you can keep Conan, but there must be room in our multi-channel empire for David Letterman.