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Nick Linsdell

History joys

by Nick Linsdell on August 12, 2008

in Drama, Highlights, TV

PASTY! Bonekickers, BBC One, 9.00pm
Well, it was always going to happen, but it doesn’t make the breaking up any less hard to do. Yes, it’s the final episode in the series (let’s face it, probably the final episode ever) for the consistently wonderful Bonekickers, the programme that made Life On Mars seem low-concept and In [...]

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Spy kids

by Nick Linsdell on August 10, 2008

in Drama, Highlights, TV

UNDERCOVER! Spooks: Code 9, BBC Three, 9.00pm & 9.50pm
Thought the UK couldn’t top China’s Olympic opening ceremony for sheer spectacle and memorability? Think again! The year is 2013 (NB: the year is not actually 2013) and Britain’s south-eastern power base has been completely displaced following a rather inconvenient nuclear attack during the previous summer’s [...]

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JOHN! John Barrowman: The Making Of Me, BBC One, 9.00pm
JOAN! Lab Rats, BBC Two, 9.30pm
In a universe of infinite possibilities, sandwiching physical dimension against hypothetical dimension, worlds of rock and water and glass against worlds of air and light and thought, the beautiful gas nebulae of libertarianism against the mountainous meteors of totalitarianism, and matter [...]

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Alice in pain?

by Nick Linsdell on May 17, 2008

in Comedy, Highlights, TV

HEARTY! Love Soup, BBC One, 10.25pm
Poor old Alice. Stuck in a world with a completely different set of moral values to her own, being forced to sub-let her Brighton flat in order to be able to continue to pay the mortgage AND work in London, having been on the brink of meeting her perfect man [...]

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FRANK! EastEnders, BBC One, Mon & Fri 8.00pm, Tue & Thu 7.30pm
Exciting and solemn (mainly exciting) times in EastEnders this week, as the soap pays a very special tribute to the late Mike Reid with four episodes centred around the funeral of Frank Butcher. Pat and Peggy’s health spa / civil partnership witnessing break is [...]

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Medical O’Mara-cle

by Nick Linsdell on March 5, 2008

in TV

ICON! Doctors, BBC One, 1.40pm
Kate O’Mara (!!!) is in Doctors today.
That is all.

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Textual identity

by Nick Linsdell on March 3, 2008

in TV

WORD! Murder Most Famous, BBC Two, 1.30pmBIRD! Mrs In-Betweeny, BBC Three, 9.00pm
‘They’ say that everyone has a book inside them, and celebrities are apparently no exception. BBC Two gives its daytime schedule a bit of a shake every day this week with Murder Most Famous, in which “queen of the psychological thriller” (thanks Wikipedia, and [...]

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Mistery thriller

by Nick Linsdell on February 25, 2008

in TV

REBORN! The Mr Men Show, Five, Mon-Fri 7.30am
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Is it a dream, a parallel universe or another planet? Is it a bold new re-imagining or a parade of distorted foetuses flaunting their personality quirks in the name of entertainment? Or is it just another rebrand? Yes, that [...]

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The Man-Machines

by Nick Linsdell on February 21, 2008

in TV

SKETCHY! That Mitchell and Webb Look, BBC Two, 9.00pm
And they’re back! Home computers Rob’n’Dave return for a second series of their much-loved TV sketch show, except of course it’s the third Mitchell and Webb TV sketch show really, and the fourth if you count the Mitchell and Webb-heavy Bruiser, and actually their seventh sketch show [...]

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Doctorin’ the Hub

by Nick Linsdell on February 20, 2008

in TV

MARTH! Torchwood, BBC Two, 9.00pmMIRTH? Freezing, BBC Two, 10.00pm
Exciting times for viewers in the ‘worthless’ demographic tonight, as iPlayerphobes and those outside the 25- to 34-year-old age bracket (now banned from watching future modern modern! BBC Three) finally get a look at [officially a] Doctor Martha Jones’ first crossover appearance in this week’s Torchwood – [...]

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