Steve Shaw wrote: "... I can't tell you how many endings I've missed on the telly as the result of nodding off. I stayed up to watch Question Time last Thursday and woke up just as the closing theme music played. :-( "

My wife has a very demanding day job. Most evenings she suffers from what we term "nine o'clock narcolepsy". I have been known to tell her to use things like BBC iPlayer when she wakes after 45 minutes sleep and asks me to bring her up-to-date with a police procedural...