Monthly Archives: March 2010

Grow your own drugs: tips from a man who knows his onions

The title of this programme sounds a lot more titillating than the content transpires to be. We’re not really given lessons on extracting mephedrone from plant food, or tips on the best way to grow dope in your airing cupboard. … Continue reading

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Holby City: Choose your Valentine

Imagine Dangerous Liaisons remade with Connie Beauchamp in the Glenn Close role. Not such a stretch, is it? It’s a tad harder to think of Elliott Hope as John Malkovitch though. Continue reading

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Casualty: It’s how you deal with your mistakes

Dr May Phelps may look pretty, but handsome is as handsome does, as they say. Judging Dr Phelps by her actions, she is not pretty at all. Continue reading

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Ask the Chancellors

An odd title for a programme given that there was only one actual Chancellor and two would-be Chancellors, but never mind. Just one of the many compromises involved in a programme that was wrongly hyped as paving the way to … Continue reading

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Glee (13): Nobody, no, nobody, is gonna rain on my parade!

Show me another pregnant fifteen year old girl in the entire universe who rejects the handsome, concerned father because it’s the right thing to do, and I’ll show you a certifiable loony. Continue reading

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Lustbox: Gene Hunt

What is it about television that makes relatively sane woman fantasise about men they wouldn’t want to share a postcode with in real life? Ladies and gentlemen, the defence calls DCI Gene Hunt. Continue reading

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Brothers & Sisters: Thank heavens William Walker had so many affairs

Kitty once had an affair with a man so famous his name couldn’t even be mentioned. My guess is Michael Jackson. Picture it! Or rather – don’t. Continue reading

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Pineapple Dance Studios: Lemons for Andrew

You’ve got to admire the resilience of Andrew Stone. Life gives him lemons and Andrew makes lemonade. A few more lemons, and he makes a nice lemon drizzle cake. More lemons and – well, you’d think eventually he’d just get sick of lemons. Continue reading

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True Blood 205: I pray Jesus isn’t watching this crap today

If I was Jason, and had seen at first hand Steve’s underground weapons bunker – a guillotine on order – I might have resisted Sarah a bit more than, ‘I want to, but I shouldn’t.’ There’s only one way this is going, and it ain’t purty. Continue reading

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Emmerdale/Eastenders: Two’s Company

Some dramatic scenes were promised in soapland during the latter half of last week, with two very special episodes driven almost solely by two central characters. In Emmerdale, we had the wonderfully heartbreaking and unique storyline of Aaron Livesy’s inner … Continue reading

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