Real television stars - Telegraph How often do you hear this: "I'd love another pint but I must hurry home to catch Embarrassing Bodies"? Giant fish, surgery, Ibiza, gambling - late-night telly is a wasteland scarred by repeat fly-tipped rubbish. Once a month in this TV Mordor a bright point stands out: The Sky at Night. Now the BBC wants to dump it. Stars may be a minority thing, as baking and ballroom dancing are, but isn't the BBC a public-service broadcaster? For 55 years, it had dear old Patrick Moore - a sight to behold. Now he's gone, sensibly clothed presenters, keen as badger-watchers, explore nebulae and eclipses. Our own Adrian Berry's monthly Night Sky column is no newcomer to these other worlds, and has never had a bigger following, looking even better online. But astronomy also suits television. It would teach the BBC if an unobserved asteroid vaporised the heart of its myopic empire.