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LOWCULTURE THEATRE REVIEW OF THE YEAR
We’re near the end of 2009 so time to look back on the high and lowlights of the year. The others will be here with more traditional lowculture categories like TV and film, but this year we also started looking at how proper telly talent was appearing on stage in [...]
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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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Oh Lily Cole. Bless her M&S contract. She may be a student at Cambridge but she’s still a model at heart. As she proved last night on The Graham Norton Show. Which is rapidly turning into a celebrityJust a Minute/Gladiators style tussle between the hundred or so guests that they squeeze onto the sofa each [...]
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The first few weeks of each X Factor series are always pretty excrutiating, and this year seemed worse than ever. With approximately three successful auditions being shown each week, it was unsurprising that many viewers gave up on the show altogether. Luckily, my dedication to #teamanyonebutlouis compelled me to keep tuning in, and I can [...]
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The first production and subsequent film version of Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice starred Jane Horrocks as the title character, a painfully shy girl with a talent for impersonating the great divas – Shirley Bassey, Judy Garland, Dusty Springfield. Since then it’s become a bit of a cliche to say that [...]
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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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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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DREAMS! The X Factor Final, ITV1, 7.10pm/9.40pm
Before I go any further, I understand it’s obligatory in any kind of X Factor end-of-series review to rant at length about how St. Laura White was, like, omg sooooooo unjustly eliminated, or something. I mean, personally I couldn’t give a tiny rat’s ass because I thought she [...]
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SERIOUS! Friday night telly, various channels
It’s Friday night! Your weekend starts here! Etc! Traditionally, Friday’s a good night for a bit of comedy or light entertainment on the box before you go out / when you get in / for those that can’t be bothered to leave the house.
So what televisual treats [...]
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GUESTS! The X Factor, ITV1, 7.45pm
Perhaps I’m not alone in thinking that this series of The X Factor has, so far, been a bit of a crashing bore? Admittedly, things picked up a little bit last week at boot camp with the show’s efforts at manufacturing tension (which of the people in these three [...]
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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. 