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
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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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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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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