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Foodies are in for a treat tonight from the Beeb. Masterchef continues at 8.00pm on BBC One (and can I just say how pleased I am they have finally dispensed with the annoying one must go through set up and the fake tension that created. This ‘everyone, some people or no-one will go [...]
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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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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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Remember how Channel 4 decided to axe a lot of its old favourite strands at the start of the year to launch radical new factual programming? Well, brace yourselves, folks, because like many of its counterparts, factual stalwart Supernanny has been axed, to be replaced by Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance.
Rest assured, this is [...]
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The seventh, and final (as far as we know) series of Celebrity Big Brother has been one of the best and has caused several people to question whether axing the celebrity version of the show was the right move. When this year’s crop of housemates entered, some of them were seen as a bit [...]
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one: There’s these celebrities, right, and they’re best-known for doing one thing, right, only they’re being asked to do a slightly different thing. Ah, who says variety’s dead? Anyway this one’s called Popstar to Operastar because operastar is totally a real word. The lineup includes Jimmy Osmond, that one [...]
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Celebrity Big Brother is back, whether there are actual celebrities is up for debate, but what is not up for debate, is that for at least three minutes, this show will be the most mentioned on twitter. It is the last one so we should put aside our feelings of boredom and revulsion and join [...]
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The wine’s hopefully been mulled, the chestnuts are roasting… or at the very least you’ve unscrewed a bottle of Lambrini and opened a box of Celebrations. So what televsisual treats are there to see you through this festive season?
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1) Dragging it out over two nights is simply wrong. Also: it does not need to last for FOUR HOURS.
2) I will be watching Robbie and Olly’s duet of horror on fast-forward for the sake of my sanity and stomach lining.
3) It’ll never in a million years come close to this:
The X Factor, ITV1, [...]
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One of our favourite ever reality shows is back tonight. The first series of The Restaurant surprised a few people with its success, but now its third run is here, it’s firmly established as a BBC Two favourite. What makes it work is the combination of so many winning elements: useless participants (and [...]
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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. 