FINALLY OVER! Big Brother, Channel 4, 8.30/10.00pm We vowed at the beginning of this series that we would pretend this show wasn’t even on, so entirely over it are we these days. Amusingly enough, we can’t have been the only ones feeling that way, since this series has by many accounts been lacking the must-see [...]
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SO FETCH! What Not to Wear, BBC1, 8.00pm Nothing ever stays the same for long in television, does it? Either producers are a little bit too tempted to fiddle with the format and end up ruining all the things that were good about it in the first place (did someone just try to hide the [...]
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COOKING! The Restaurant, BBC2, 8.00pm 2007 has not exactly been a vintage year for the reality genre, has it? It kicked off with Shilpagate during Celebrity Big Brother, prompting Channel 4 to “rest” that show for a bit (hooray!), then Sralan Sugar’s decision to appoint Simon Ambrose as his next Apprentice brought the nation together [...]
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IMPROV! Outnumbered, BBC1, 10.35pm We’re naturally wary about getting excited about a comedy on BBC1 (which, on the comedy wariness scale, is slightly less wary that we would be of a new comedy on ITV1, slightly more wary than we would be of a new comedy on BBC2, which is about as wary as we [...]
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Look at this! We’re normally far too lazy to do an update on a bank holiday, but since everybody knows that’s where all the best telly is hiding, we thought we’d come out of the woodwork today and write something for you. Just don’t expect us to start working Sundays, unless you’re offering double-time or [...]
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TECHNOLOGICAL! The IT Crowd, Channel 4, 9.30pm Again we find ourselves at a slight disadvantage when it comes to writing about this show, on the grounds that we didn’t really watch the first series. With that in mind, we’re falling back on our time-honoured “but lots of people we know really liked it” line as [...]
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LAST! House, Five, 9.00pm Having had the weekend to indulge our inner Stephen Fry fanboy thanks to BBC Four, it was only natural that we got to see a fair amount of that nice Hugh Laurie on the telly as well. Particularly in the vintage episode of A Little Bit of Fry and Laurie, where [...]
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RURAL! Dirty Cows, Living, 9.00pm Let’s admit this outright: we know very little about this show beyond what we’ve gleaned from the Radio Times and the sadly sparse amount of information on the Living website at the time of writing, but we’ve got to admit, this does sound kind of awesome in a ridiculous sort [...]
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FUNNY! Gavin and Stacey, BBC2, 10.00pm Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Sorry, we just had to get that out of the way nice and early, otherwise we’d end up saying it repeatedly throughout this preview for Gavin and Stacey. Awwww. Sorry, we’ll stop in a minute, honest. It’s just that we saw most of this when it aired on [...]
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AWAY! EastEnders, BBC1, 8.00pm It’s always a fairly brave move to move a handful of soap characters away from their main territory, or to follow them when they go, at least. We can’t quite explain why, but soap characters outside their natural habitat often fall flat. Maybe it’s because it breaks the flow of the [...]
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