On holiday, wish you were here

School's back next week in NSW, meanwhile some holidays just seem to go on forever...

Program	Date Off Air	Return Date	Days Off
Media Watch	8/11/2010	7/2/2011	91 days
Q and A	8/11/2010	7/2/2011	91 days
Insiders	5/12/2010	6/2/2011	63 days
NSW School Holidays	15/12/2010	28/1/2011	43 days

Update 31/1/2011 The Australian's Media Diary pick up the theme...

Planning something

NOW, it’s true that this is the first Diary column for 50 days, but get a load of this handy table, which we got from ABC watcher Marc Hendrickx, which we’ve decided to call: “Your Taxes at Work.” Incredible, no? Especially since not being on air doesn’t mean not being at work: very many of the staff are in the office. Diary sought out some of them, to ask what they did, exactly, when the shows weren’t on air. “I dunno,” one said, while chomping a carrot. “Planning?”