Monthly Archives: May 2011

PLA is away

Hola! I’m writing this from a secret location on the sunny Isle of Fernando’s (a reference you’ll only get if you watch Take Me Out). Hence I’m away from any meaningful telly that isn’t in German or Spanish, so this … Continue reading

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Doctor Who (6.6): Double, double, toil and trouble

If you happened to catch Matt Smith looking super-dapper on the One Show sofa earlier this week (I swear I only braved it to watch him), you’ll have seen him leaning forward, mouth open, breathing “No!” in response to the … Continue reading

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Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle: The one with the song

You may have noticed that I haven’t blogged every episode of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. This isn’t because they weren’t enjoyable, but because even if I could do justice to his humour, it would ruin the show for me to … Continue reading

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The Apprentice 704: Bullshit in the Bull Ring

When poor old unusually honest Felicity Fluff appeared on You’re Fired last night, Dara asked her if it had been awful watching the programme. ‘Actually,’ said Fliss Fluff, ‘it wasn’t too bad. It was condensed, so they didn’t show all the mistakes we made.’ I don’t know about you, but when I heard that I thought: there were more mistakes?
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Waterloo Road: The mystery girl and the mystery woman

A bit of a mixed episode, this. A large chunk of it was taken up with one of these stand-alone stories where you know you’re never going to see the character again, so it’s hard to care. Continue reading

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Holby City: Manager of the year

Authority was not sitting comfortably on Sacha’s shoulders this week. He’s just too nice, and his efforts to appear managerial came across, to Chrissie at least, as “cute.” Dull Dan apparently can’t get through a week without locking horns with another male staff member in a rutting stag sort of way. And Michael Spence and Plastic Bhatti got very excited at the prospect of showing off to a man from the health authority . Continue reading

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Game of Thrones: There’s only one thing we say to death – “Not today”

What a cracking episode this was – one of those rare times when you’re so immersed in the story and the characters that the real world just stops existing for the hour. Continue reading

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Desert Island Discs: Now we can all play!

Now Desert Island Disks is offering me, you, and a boy named Sue the opportunity to submit our eight favourite tunes without even having to first make it big at ICI or anything Continue reading

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Casualty: Ruth’s back! Charlie’s back! Mads is in danger!

It was a hell of a shift for Ruth to make her reintroduction to medical life. Mayhem, it was. Continue reading

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Doctor Who (6.5): Displeasures of the Flesh

I’m not surprised The Rebel Flesh started later than usual tonight. Bless the schedulers for giving parents the chance to pack smaller kids off to bed and avoid the sight of people melting in acid and the grisly Flesh people … Continue reading

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