Johnny Marr has been a busy chap. Not only has he just collaborated with Hans Zimmer on the score for Inception, but there's also his commitment to the Cribs – and now a new TV theme. Marr has composed the music for the new Channel 4 sitcom The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, a new song called Life Is Sweet. (Hopefully this pairing will work better than when Kylie did the song for the failed ITV soap Night And Day). So, inspired by Marr's extracurricular commitment, which other turns would you like to see providing new theme tunes to bolster existing TV shows?
Foals: Countdown
Let's face it, the post-Vorderman attempt to revamp the show for a younger crowd has hardly set the public imagination on fire. So who better than Foals, UK indie's most intellectual math-rockers to give the old tick-tock theme tune a revamp, expanding their own demographic while they're at it.
Courtney Love: What Not to Wear
Love has been causing internet consternation with the is-it-her-or-isn't-it-her? mystery of the whatcourtneyworetoday.com blog.What we'd really like, of course, to see is her hosting the rebooted show – but we'd settle for her donating one of her tunes.
Manic Street Preachers: Match of the Day
The Welsh firebrands' period of strings and success in the 90s saw their songs become such regular fixtures on Goal of the Month montages that it probably keeps them in feather boas to this day. Their new album, Postcards From A Young Man, marks a return to those days, so why not just go the whole hog?
Kelis: Celebrity MasterChef
As well as making a mean Milkshake, the R&B heroine recently qualified as a cordon bleu chef, so she'd obviously be disqualified from actually entering. But maybe she'd enjoy revamping the theme music.
Katy Perry: Mistresses
The once flighty rioja'n'rutting drama seems to have experienced a serious buzzkill with its latest – and apparently final – series. What better way to make the BBC rethink its decison than a Skins-style clearout with a new cast, unburned by previous infidelities, soundtracked by a new track from everyone's favourite overexposed, pretend-lesbian good time girl? Or in the spirit of third-and-final installments, perhaps LCD Soundsystem could take over this series
MIA: This Week
Andrew Neil's politics show is so bent on connecting with hipster youth that they've drafted in Dappy from N-Dubz and, er, the guy from Scouting for Girls as guests. The truffle-chip-loving agit-popper might be prone to saying rash things (so an instrumental might be best advised) but at least they'd know her heart was in the right place.
N-Dubz: Eastenders E20
'Stenders likes to think its online spin-off depicts the cool, grimy underground of east London youth, perhaps with an on-the-brink rapper like Giggs on the soundtrack. But judging by the antics of flouro-irritant Fatboy, No 1 urban clowns Dappy & co seem much better suited
Jarvis Cocker: Grandma's House
Simon Amstell's new autobiographically inspired sitcom provoked a rather mixed reaction. But who observes the minutiae of English suburbia with warmer humour than Cocker? How could that not be a treat? (Alternatively, of course, Cocker could just take over Never Mind the Buzzcocks)
Orbital: Doctor Who
Rather a cheat this one, as it's already happened. But the ageing techno duo's longstanding re-rub of Ron Grainer's original theme got the official rubberstamp at Glastonbury when Matt Smith appeared on stage during their set. What better way to further update a time-travel drama for the 21st century than giving it a theme song straight from the 90s?
