Adam Liaw keeps his cool in the kitchen

He was a winner in the second season of MasterChef - back when that actually meant something and people actually cared.

Seriously, all the well-known MasterChef winners and runners-up come from those first two seasons. After that it was like no-one got offered TV shows or the chance to write cookbooks.

But the most impressive thing he can do in the kitchen is talk and cook at the same time.

While most cooking shows feature a chef explaining how to cook whatever dish they're making, Liaw always has a few guests sitting down the end of the kitchen bench. Really The Cook Up is part cooking show, part chat show.

That impresses me no end. When I'm cooking, measuring ingredients, throwing stuff into pans, making sure nothing burns, there's no way I can carry on a conversation with anyone.

Of course some chuckleheads will consider this to be a work of fiction because they think they're so much smarter than the rest of us.

They think a simple narrative - bad people hijacked planes and crashed them - is too far-fetched.

Instead, they replace it with an incredibly convoluted and ridiculous tale about a government conspiracy involving demolitions experts setting up explosives in the World Trade Centre ahead of time, fake phone calls to loved ones from those on board, and someone shooting a missile into the Pentagon.

And they try and forget about the crashing of Flight 93 in a field in Pennsylvania. That's because that crash is really hard to fit into any kooky theory.

See, if it was all faked then someone had to plan every detail. Including the idea of crashing a plane in the middle of nowhere.

That's an idea that serves no purpose in advancing the goals of these bogus plotters. Really, what would faking that crash do that wasn't already accomplished by the World Trade Centre and Pentagon crashes?

However, the fact that the passengers on board had heard about the other three crashes, knew they were likely going to die and put up a fight totally explains why Flight 93 crashed.

Sorry about the rant - conspiracy theorists really annoy me.

This documentary, featuring real people who were in the Pentagon when a real plane crashed into it, tells a great tale of what happened that day interspersed with the building's history.

This series focusing on the heyday of armed bank robbers starts out feeling sensationalistic - mainly because of the overly blokey tone of the narrator.

But, that aside, this is a pretty straight, even-handed telling of a surprising part of history.

In Sydney in the 1980s, an average of 10 banks a day were held up by armed gunmen.

That's because it was easy - there were no cameras, no security guards, no special screens that crashed down between the robbers and the tellers.

They could just walk in, demand the cash and then leave.