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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 love Masterchef, and I’m glad it’s back for a new series (though please, please make it a little less formulaic) – but ninety minutes of Masterchef? I fear for my eardrums.
The scheduling of the show seems strange – gone is the traditional five half an hour slots a week (which had become three with [...]
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The slightly perplexing new tradition of ‘Schoolies week’ (why, in many generations of Ramsay St teens has this never been mentioned before?) continues in Neighbours this week, and Donna, fed up of Ringo being a bit of a dick who doesn’t have any purpose whatsoever on the show right now, gets friendly with this new [...]
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I that time of year again when some of the better artists of the year (with some notable exceptions as always) are celebrated and some very dodgy duets are inflicted on the nation. Presenting this year’s BRIT Awards is Peter Kay, as if we didn’t already know he was desperate to be a proper pop [...]
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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. 