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WALTZ! Mad Hot Ballroom, More 4, 10.00pm True Stories is one of the best-kept secrets of the TV schedules (see also BBC Four’s Storyville). Every week it shows a new documentary film, and it’s always worth keeping an eye on the schedules, because I can guarantee you that there’ll be something that you love in [...]

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BACK! Location Location Location, Channel 4, 8.00pm SPINOFF! Kirstie and Phil’s Property Guide, More 4, 9.00pm Location Location Location has been suffering the same sort of fatigue as Property Ladder of late, in that it seems hard to get excited about a new series when there doesn’t seem to ever be a time when it’s [...]

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Shrink Rapped

by Ruth Deller on April 21, 2008

in Interview,TV

The second series of Shrink Rap has arrived with very little fanfare. Perhaps that’s because of the controversy caused by the one-off special with Chris Langham a few months ago. For those who haven’t come across this series before, clinical psychologist Pamela Connolly (aka Pamela Stephenson, wife of Billy Connolly and formerly of Not the [...]

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CELEBRITY QUIZZING! The Weakest Link, BBC One, 5.15pm Obviously troubled by the dominance of Neighbours in the ratings, the Beeb are beginning to pull out all the stops with this week’s celebrity editions of The Weakest Link, the like of which we usually only get on Saturdays. Tonight’s special is a reality television stars’ edition, [...]

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Unchained Melody

by Ruth Deller on February 5, 2008

in Documentary,TV

ANTI-CORPORATE! Dave Gorman: America Unchained, More4, 10pm We admit it, we love Dave Gorman. In a very non-sexual way. (Sorry Dave). We missed watching The Dave Gorman Collection when it was on, but we heard about it, and lapped up the book he wrote about it with Danny Wallace, Are You Dave Gorman? We LOLled [...]

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Winging it

by Steven Perkins on July 26, 2007

in TV

SORKIN! Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, More 4, 10.00pm So, you’re Aaron Sorkin. (Okay, you’re probably not Aaron Sorkin, but we’re playing a drama game here. Humour us.) You created The West Wing, one of the most critically acclaimed series of recent years, which viewers across the world took to their hearts as proof [...]

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