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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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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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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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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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The South Bank Show is one of the few television shows (along with BBC Two’s The Culture Show) to look at the arts, in all their forms. One of the great things about it is that you can see the likes of Will Young, Victoria Wood and Coldplay being taken as seriously as people [...]
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N ow that The X Factor has take us through Boot Camp and we’ve seen everyone do both ballroom and latin on Strictly Come Dancing, how are the all! new! series faring?
Whilst both are maintaining a healthy audience, it’s no secret that the audiences are unhappy.
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LOWCULTURE TOVEY ALERT!
Hey, did you see that bit in last week’s Marple when Geraldine McEwan regenerated into Julia McKenzie? Amazing! I’m sure I spotted Margaret Rutherford and Joan Hickson during the face-morph as well. (Warning: There is a slight possibility I’m making this up.) Anyway, the cosy Sunday tea-time tradition of brutal murder isn’t something [...]
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There’s an old maxim about what you should do if something ain’t broke, and it seems to be one that this year’s X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing are destined to ignore. To be fair, there are things about both shows that needed fixing, but instead of attending to those, they’re messing with bits [...]
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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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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. 