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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
I’m one of those people who tried really hard to hate Skins, (Thursdays, 10pm, E4) the teen drama that arrived in a hail of sex, drugs & vomit in 2... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
Duff! Duff! Duff-duff-duff-duff-duff-duff! Is there any other TV theme as instantly recognisable as the EastEnders drum roll? When something plays in your li... Read more »| 10 Feb 2010 -
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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
I intentionally held off reviewing the launch of series two of Being Human (Sunday, BBC3) last week. Partly because the world went bonkers for Glee but partl... Read more »| 24 Jan 2010 -
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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
I’ve always been conflicted when it comes to musicals. The I’m-a-cynical-mediatype-don’t-cha-know in me rails against all things sentimenta... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
Christmas 2009 has belonged to David Tennant. With appearances in Hamlet, Alan Carr, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI, CBeebies, Radio 2, Radio 4, 5 Live, the ma... Read more »| 31 Dec 2009 -
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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
It would be unfair to say that all good British satire in the last fifteen years has been produced by Armando Iannucci. There is at least 3% untouched by him... Read more »| 17 Dec 2009
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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
I had high hopes for Small Island (BBC1, Sunday), the adaptation of Andrea Levy's novel about the relationship between Londoners and Jamaican soldiers during... Read more »| 09 Dec 2009 -
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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
It’s what we Brits do best; take a successful American idea and anglicise it by removing the glamour. E4’s latest naughty young ‘uns drama ... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
Every now and then a show comes along that rewrites the rules and changes the way television is made. Such was the first series of BBC1’s Criminal Just... Read more »| 12 Oct 2009 -
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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, is it? In the earliest years of this millennium, we were loving every decade (Andrew Collins and Stewart Maconie mo... Read more »| 05 Oct 2009 -
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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
No-one does nature documentaries like the BBC. It's a simple equation; David Attenborough's hushed narration + sublime footage = TV gold. The Blue Planet, Th... Read more »| 28 Sep 2009 -
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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
You just can't get the staff these days... or so you'd think by watching the shambles that is Live From Studio Five (Channel Five, daily). In attempting to o... Read more »| 21 Sep 2009 -
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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
Thank goodness BBC3’s ‘wacky’ new sitcom We Are Klang (BBC3, Monday) finished this week. The team behind the show may have received their s... Read more »| 14 Sep 2009 -
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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
It all went a bit Final Destination this week in EastEnders (BBC1, Thursday) with born again nut-job Lucas accidentally impaling his ex-lover on a rake and l... Read more »| 07 Sep 2009 -
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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
My top find of last week was A1: The Road Musical (More4, Tuesday), a pseudo-documentary directed and composed by Benjamin Till and part of First Cut, the ch... Read more »| 31 Aug 2009