Monthly Archives: June 2010

Casualty: Lovely Staff Nurse Faldren’s bad day

Some days, as U2 are apt to remind us, are better than others. You’re told you have a 50% chance of having contracted a fatal and incurable disease in a drugs trial. That’s definitely a bad day. Continue reading

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Brothers & Sisters: Crash!

Life, for the Walkers, will never be the same after the shock season finale. Continue reading

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Rev: Banging the Bishop

I love Tom Hollander. I would watch him if he was reading the phone book. I would watch him if he was presenting Top Gear. I would watch him if he was in Heartbeat. Oh, no, I probably wouldn’t. Continue reading

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Burn Notice (2.4): In which we watch Fi electrocute herself to bag a bad guy

This is the week of the chin – good ol’ Bruce Campbell gets a little more screen time as he helps Michael in his quest to learn more about dreadful Carla. In other news, we are helping to rescue a … Continue reading

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Best Undressed: Miss Nude Australia

After watching part of a Channel 4 series Best Undressed (of which, more later), I’ve been reflecting upon attitudes towards women and their bodies this week. There has been outrage over an article in Mother & Baby magazine by Kathryn Blundell about bottlefeeding her baby … Continue reading

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Doctor Who (5.13): Something borrowed, something blue…

Is there anyone in the universe as brilliant and bright as the Doctor? Yes, actually – Stephen Moffat. He has taken wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey and created a fabulous series and tonight’s stupendous finale. Throughout the whole thing he plays with stories … Continue reading

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Big Brother: enough playground drama

Really can’t be doing with any more attention on the dull-as-ditchwater interactions between Shabby and Caoimhe and playground sulks and tantrums. Psychologist, Judy James, on BBLB yesterday got it spot on as usual. Caoimhe has nothing going for her on her own. … Continue reading

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World Cup: View from the Primark WAGs

I like to think of myself and my friends as WAGS. After all, we too stand by our men throughout the football season, allowing them to wear nasty nylon football shirts, and talk about football at every given opportunity. The difference may be that their Prada is our Primark and their Ferraris our Fiestas, but basically we are the same. Continue reading

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World Cup: The perfect football song

In a few hours’ time, the England football team could possibly be packing their designer luggage and heading for the airport, as yet again World Cup dreams lie shattered to miserable pieces.

Or it could all be glorious. There’s still hope. Continue reading

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Cook Yourself Thin makes me want to eat Mars Bars

This should be a perfectly decent programme format. You take people who don’t or can’t cook. Or, if they do cook, they have a tendency towards using shedloads of lard. Then you show them how to cook decent meals, of a kind that … Continue reading

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