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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.
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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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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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November has been slim pickings in soap world, with the dreary murder storylines in several soaps dominating to the detriment of more interesting things. So there may be a few returns for the people our forum users just love to love and love to hate in today’s update. I’d love to hear who [...]
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It’s time once again for Comedy Showcase, Channel 4’s annual(ish) series of sitcom pilots. For the next 7 weeks they’ll be trying out new comedies, each of them hoping to be commissioned for a full series. Who knows, maybe this’ll be our first look at another comedy classic, just like that other one they greenlit [...]
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Like far too many US series lately, Ugly Betty has been struggling for some time with how to follow up a great first season. The second season was very bitty, and the third season even more so. Whilst there have been some elements that have really worked, such as the development of the [...]
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And so we come to the finale of the penultimate series of Big Brother (and possibly the last series ‘proper’, if rumours of an All-Stars version next year prove true). It hasn’t been the disaster the press have liked to portray it as, even if ratings have been down on previous years. There [...]
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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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In ‘these troubled times’, telly is in an interesting place, and this is especially the case for the types of shows that thrive on talking about money. I’m thinking particularly of property and business-based shows.
With new series of Location, Location, Location, Dragon’s Den and Property Ladder running at the moment, how are these programmes [...]
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This week has been Big Brother’s much trumpeted ‘10th Birthday’ – except of course, it’s the ninth birthday and the tenth series (i.e. it’s the tenth year, but it began nine years ago). Of course, celebrating it all in series eleven (if there even is one, at least in its standard form) wouldn’t quite [...]
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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. 