Monthly Archives: September 2010
Waterloo Road: Who your friends are
This week’s Big Issue on Waterloo Road was drugs. Only it wasn’t, really. It was really about friendship, loyalty and doing the right thing. Continue reading
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Casualty: Yucky for Yuki
If you’re of a delicate disposition, the last place you’d want to be is Holby’s new Clinical Decisions Unit. In the space of a few minutes, Yuki (who, for some reason, was put in charge) found himself dealing with a woman with maggot-infested feet, another with a parasite multiplying in her innards, a man vomiting copious amounts of blood and another woman with a nasty infected wound. Continue reading
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Downton Abbey: Maggie may
As the talented Julian (Gosford Park) Fellowes obviously knows well, the British pre WW1 country house, complete with rigid crinolines, even more rigid class hierarchies, housemaids on their knees, hugely complicated sexual/social dynamics, stiff upper lips and Maggie Smith as … Continue reading
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Burn Notice (2.16): In which we are left wanting more…
So, did you guess the truth about Victor? I had an inkling he would be more a friend than an enemy, but who’d have thought he could make Michael cry? But wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start at … Continue reading
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The Story of Rumours: sex & drugs & rock & roll in a recording studio soap opera
God bless i player. During recent tedious bouts of insomnia, I turn to something from the radio section to drift off to. The Archers omnibus works well. A Radio 2 programme about the making of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album, Rumours, didn’t work at all well. … Continue reading
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Holby City news: Duncan Pow leaving
As well as losing Connie Beauchamp in the coming weeks, Holby City is also about to lose Linden Cullen. Continue reading
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Waterloo Road: Dads. Total embarrassment
Fathers didn’t get an entirely good press in last night’s Waterloo Road. Top embarrassing dad of the night was guest artiste Martin Kemp. Continue reading
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