The jury is still out on BBC’S new channel ▼ BBC SCOTLAND, LAUNCH NIGHT

Clocks and music. They seem to be the magic ingredients when it comes to launching a TV channel.

When Channel 4 launched in what seems, in these fastchanging television times, like 1982’s dark ages, it was with the dulcet tones of in10’s own Paul Coia and the ticking clock of Countdown.

By the time Channel 5 came along 15 years later it was a musical – and ultra-expensive – countdown by the Spice Girls.

BBC Scotland had both. A seemingly never-ending digital clock running down to zero hour at 7pm on Sunday, then some dreamy wandering by The Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry.

When we did get up and running it was with a show from the Theatre Royal – which was more than a bit of a throwback as that’s where STV started more than 60 years ago.

And that was a bit like the channel, a bit of the new and plenty of the old.

Beeb bosses had obviously brainstormed aplenty over coffees and pastries about opening night content of their £32m baby, mixing up entertainment, current affairs and comedy.

And the latter, in the shape of Still Game, was all just about everyone wanted to see.

The verdict? Well, like the channel, a bit mixed. We still love Jack, Victor and the gang but there’s a fair bit of anxious waiting and seeing what the coming weeks will bring.

▼ BAPTISTE, BBC1

If you’re missing Line Of Duty – anyone else getting ridiculously excited by short trailers and teasing tweets? – then Baptiste will get you by with its shocks, twists and surprising turns.

Like The Missing, I haven’t a clue how it’s going to go. But I have faith our grizzled old ‘tec will get us there in the end.