From the category archives:
The other week I was looking at one aspect of ‘recession telly’ – the effect of the recession on the property and business programmes that had fared so well in the ‘boom’ years. However, whilst the financial situation has caused some of those programmes to feel a little incongruous, there’s another genre of programmes [...]
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Twenty years ago, ‘Madchester’ was at its height, with The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays appearing on TOTP together and the release of the former’s eponymous album, now rereleased in a special 20th-anniversary-give-us-more-money pack. To celebrate the anniversary, BBC Four are having a theme night (or half a night, anyway), dedicated to the best [...]
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It’s interesting that BBC Four are launching a series about growing old, just as BBC Three are about to do the same. Only in BBC Four’s case being old means actually, geniunely old, whilst BBC Three’s just means not being the right age to play Pokemon any longer. As the amount of grey [...]
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Famous, Rich and Homeless sounds like the title of an ill-conceived BBC Three ‘yoof-friendly’ factual film, so it’s quite surprising to see that it’s actually a two part ‘life swap’ style show on BBC One. Well, I say swap, but I don’t think the homeless people get to sample the D-list lifestle, which might [...]
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Twenty-one years ago, the BBC’s QED strand made a documentary called ‘John’s Not Mad’. It followed sixteen-year-old John Davidson as he shared the challenges of living with tourette’s syndrome. John was an engaging presence and the documentary is one of those rare ones that is still remembered by many people years after the [...]
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A few things that might be of interest today…
In Neighbours, the mystery over which feckless teen couple are going to have a baby deepens, as does the mystery of why nobody in soap land has heard of contraceptives (apart from Donna, apparently, and only because she forgot to take them). This afternoon, Harry Hill drops [...]
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Bugger The X Factor; as soon as January rolls around, it’s all about American Idol as far as I’m concerned. In honour of esteemed fourth judge Kara DioGuardi joining the panel and generally being amazing, for one night only (because, to be perfectly honest, that’s about the longest this incredibly thin idea is going to [...]
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It’s New Year’s Eve! And hopes are high. Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye. Another chance, another start – so many dreams to tease the heart. As much as I would love for this entire entry to be ripped directly from Sunset Boulevard lyrics, that wouldn’t really be an effective use of [...]
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FUTURE! Horizon, BBC Two, 9.00pm
Remember when we were young, and we were promised that by the twenty-first century, we’d all have robots? Danny Wallace does, and he’s on a mission to find out just what on earth is delaying the revolution.
Sure, there have been mini innovations, like those robotic hoovers you can get, but [...]
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ALOUD! The Cheryl Cole Factor, Five, 10.00pm
Five appears to have got a bit obsessed with the life stories of minor celebrities at the moment, since last Wednesday we were treated to a programme asking Ant and Dec: Where Did It All Go Right? In the next instalment of a series of what we can [...]
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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. 
