IS week four too early to be getting a ten on Strictly Come Dancing ?

This is one of the extremely important questions I asked myself over the weekend.

I know it is not exactly the meaning of life, but in terms of discussions of a televisual kind, amongst confirmed telly/Strictly addicts, it is an important one.

There is no doubt Alexandra Burke deserved not one, but three shiny tens for her jive on Saturday night.

To those of us who are not Darcy Bussell or Len Goodman, she could already pass for a professional dancer. But being so good, so early, could prove costly for Miss Burke.

Being too good might lose her the public vote - we want to see progress and struggle.

Not a near perfect rendition of the jive when a contestant has barely pulled on the sparkly Lycra.

And I might be alone here, but too much gratitude, gushing and tears every time the panel says something nice about your performance also quickly irritates me.

Come on Alex, you know you’re good. You aren’t fooling me.

And once you are up the top - the only way is down.

My prediction is that she will have a struggle over the next ten weeks to keep up that momentum - with the girl from the Saturdays and Aston from JLS (also in danger of peaking too soon) snapping at her heels.

My money is on either the chef chap or Brian Conley shimmying out of the show this week.

Also shimmying off the screens this week was the slightly less upbeat Liar.

I should imagine anyone working in the criminal justice system was absolutely up in arms each week since it did seem a tad cavalier with procedure.

But at its heart was a sincere drama about truth and who people believe and if it made just one victim of similar wrongs come forward then it was worth it as well as being a riveting and ultimately satisfying experience.

Not sure how it will come back but the end credits promised as much.

Part of me was pleased about this but my over-riding concern is it will fall into the same trap as Doctor Foster.

Its second series was slightly hysterical and ultimately did a bit of a dis-service to the far superior original.

And there are probably many who feel Broadchurch shouldn’t have bothered with two return trips.

As far as I am concerned, Liar had an ending which left enough tied up and just a bit to our imaginations.

Why try and stretch it out to a second series ?