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With her performances on Maestro and The Supersizers… Sue Perkins has started to look like she’s about to become a national treasure. TV producers have clearly noticed that everyone loves her, so they’ve been trying to shoehorn her into new formats, but so far it doesn’t seem as if they’ve found one that works.
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The best quiz show on telly has become a lot better in recent weeks, with the addition of connecting walls to the Only Connect website so everyone can play at home.
For the uninitiated, the wall is a round towards the end of the game show where sixteen words have to be arranged into four grids [...]
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This year’s Let’s Dance hasn’t had anything with quite the same impact as Robert Webb’s Flashdance from the last series, but it’s still been fairly entertaining.
Tonight’s finale includes, amongst others, Cheryl Fergison doing Vanilla Ice, the Grumpy Old Women doing Lady GaGa and Debra Stephenson doing Michael Jackson, but surely the favourite is Rufus Hound [...]
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The recent producer changes at EastEnders and Hollyoaks have got people on our forums talking about which characters in the soaps are essential and which are due the chop. Most people are agreed that new Hollyoaks producer Paul Marquess has made the correct decision in axing some of our least wanted characters, such as [...]
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Previewing from today, the National Theatre’s big comedy for the Spring/Summer season is Dion Boucicault’s 1841 romp London Assurance. Starring theatre stalwart Simon Russell Beale (no relation to Ian,) you’d think the presence of Celebrity Lesbian Fiona Shaw playing a character called Lady Gay Spanker would be the main attraction here. In fact you should [...]
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When he appeared as a guest on Never Mind the Buzzcocks last year, a lot of us here at LC Towers were rather taken with Tom Basden. So you’d think the London debut (running for just two weeks) of his award-winning play Party, in which he also stars, would be an easy recommendation. However this [...]
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Just like buses, you wait ages for a London theatre opening with a lowculture connection then two come along at once. (Actually they came along yesterday but Damages deserves a day to itself.) First we’re in the West End where Kim Cattrall stars in Noel Coward’s Private Lives. Cattrall is of course best known for [...]
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I haven’t been able to get into new Channel 4 import The Good Wife, because whenever I’ve seen it, I’ve spent the time wishing I was watching Damages instead. Thankfully, the long wait for series three is now over, as it arrives on BBC One tonight. The Wednesday scheduling will take some getting [...]
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I have a new favourite programme, and it hasn’t even aired yet, but given it involves David Mitchell, Victoria Coren and a guessing game about the news, The Bubble can’t fail as far as I’m concerned.
The premise of the show is that three famous guests are put into a ‘bubble’ of seclusion for a week [...]
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In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past six months and haven’t noticed, tonight is the silver anniversary of EastEnders. The Beeb have been showing off a lot about how brilliant it all is, and whilst I have totally loved all the coverage, it does need pointing out that there have [...]
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I see a little silhouetto of a muppet.
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I saw them perform it "live" on GMTV this morning and I nearly spluttered out my tea. 