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The Eastenders Christmas Special
Posted on 10:07am Thursday 17th December 2009
The Eastenders Christmas special contains all the basic elements of a classic dramatic model. The Greek tragedy: ‘a form of art based on human suffering that paradoxically offers its audience pleasure’. Sound familiar?
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True Blood
Posted on 1:50pm Thursday 10th December 2009
Undoubtedly a celebration of the working class hero, True Blood is in essence, exceedingly trashy television. Barflies and scantily clad blondes. Drug addicts, prostitutes, alcoholics. Vinnie from Home and Away.
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Murder She Wrote
Posted on 10:57am Friday 27th November 2009
Murder She Wrote invites us for a brief sojourn in Cabot Cove, the haven of the small town persona, and ruled over, I mean resided in, by Jessica Fletcher. Widowed, retired, not much to do but her hair and pen the odd mystery novel. So where does Jessica Fletcher get the inspiration for her books? Why, from that same small town she is so reluctant to let fame and fortune drag her from.
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I'm A Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here!
Posted on 12:59pm Friday 20th November 2009
I’m finding it tricky to fully engage with this series. It’s hard to beat the platinum line-up of yesteryear - Robert Kilroy-Silk and Timmy Mallet and David Van Day. Watching those three was a bit like sucking on one of those super-sour gobstoppers that used to be around when I was a kid but have probably been banned by the EU now. Hard to swallow but impossible to spit out.
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True Movies
Posted on 1:49pm Tuesday 15th September 2009
The made-for-TV movie is oft subject to well-deserved ridicule. They are the refuge of the bit-part actor or the faded soap star. Scripted by the mediocre, directed by the misguided, funded by the careless. They really shouldn’t pass as entertainment, but they rarely miss the mark.
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The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Posted on 4:02pm Monday 7th September 2009
Autumn is approaching, everybody is due a seasonal bout of mild depression. So how about, just for now, we forget the harsh lighting, the scraped-back hair, the skimmed-milk complexions and the dirty fingernails? How about we, temporarily of course, set aside the insurmountable problems of our fellow Brits, and instead, enjoy a glossy half an hour or so in the company of people for whom a broken fingernail constitutes an international crisis? Sound tempting?
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Paris Hilton's BFF - Dubai
Posted on 10:35am Wednesday 26th August 2009
As you’ll now no doubt be delighted to hear, a new series of the show – Paris Hilton’s Best Friend Forever- has just finished filming in Dubai. Yes, that’s right, a predominantly Muslim country where swearing, provocative clothing, exhibitionism, all those things that Paris is famed for and the previous series was based around, don’t make you too popular.
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X Factor
Posted on 4:30pm Saturday 22nd August 2009
With the most recent series of Britain’s Got Talent resigned to a dusty memory for most of us, it’s down to X Factor, the bigger, bustier sister, to muscle back onto the screen and remind us who’s in charge of the Saturday night schedule. ITV, that’s who. They’ve got 27 episodes of this stuff. It’s going to take us through to Christmas. Best get comfortable. Or move to the continent.
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Monk
Posted on 4:50pm Thursday 13th August 2009
He’s afraid of germs. He’s afraid of heights. He’s afraid of milk, ladybirds, harmonicas…and guess what? He’s probably going to get called in to assist in solving a crime which features all three.
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Young, Dumb and Living off Mum
Posted on 1:22pm Sunday 9th August 2009
As an adjective, dumb doesn’t really begin to do justice to the heart-stopping stupidity displayed by this lot. Or their parents for that matter, who for some reason have laboured under the delusion than ‘no’ is a dirty word when it comes to child-rearing, and as a result, have bred and raised a selection of idiots that any self-respecting village would probably send packing.
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Total Wipeout
Posted on 2:15pm Saturday 1st August 2009
These may sound like ice breakers at a child’s party, but there are absolutely no similarities. You’d be closer to the mark by comparing them to a platform video game – although unlike Super Mario, real people generally aren’t very good at defying gravity or dodging a succession of runaway logs. Disgrace? Humiliation? Got it covered
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Four Weddings
Posted on 8:31am Thursday 16th July 2009
Add a camera to the already heady mix of emotion, champagne and Whigfield’s ‘Saturday Night’ and Come Dine With Me starts to pale ever so slightly in comparison.
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Airline
Posted on 1:34pm Sunday 12th July 2009
The great thing about this programme is that you are privy to all those little human dramas that play themselves out in public, without having to avert your eyes or hide behind a newspaper.
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Animal Park
Posted on 8:21pm Wednesday 1st July 2009
The Beeb do their best to keep up with the nation and their attention deficit demands; gunning down Top of the Pops when they realised that it had become a byword for lame, organising live web cams at Glastonbury, juicing up Radio 2 with the likes of Russell Brand and Alan Carr. They have proved to us that they have got the hang of edgy and cool, but programmes like this serve to show that they much prefer room temperature.
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