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TV Review and gallery: Britian’s Got Talent second semi finals

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

As the BGT semi finals continue, the acts seem to becoming more and more obscure.

With the exception of Boyband New Bounce, which were branded “the ones to beat” by Simon Cowell and got themselves the public vote to the final, the other contestants took a walk onto the weird side.

Firstly there was keyboard player Jean Martyn, who with her bright coloured coat and inane smile made us think she was ready for the looney bin more than the final, but that didn’t stop all four judges putting her through over magician act Karen and David.

Amanda even compared the excitable musician to an energy drink, calling her “a can of red bull”.

Meanwhile, Britney Spears impersonator Lorna Bliss was booted off the programme after causing controversy by making it through to the semi-final, despite getting buzzed by judges three times in auditions.

Frankly we’re not sure why she bothered come back. Yes she may have looked like the pop princess but that voice really needs some work.
Then there was Up and Over it, the act that made dance with their hands. We wish we’d thought of an act like this for our five minutes of fame.

In fact their weirdness even beat the Circus of Horrors, a show with trapeze artists, bouncers and weird made up people.

We just want a bit of normality please.

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TV Review and gallery: Lily Allen Riches to Rags

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

Despite Lily Allen telling the world and its dog that her documentary was “rubbish” and advising them not to watch it, many of us have done the opposite.

And last night’s Riches To Rags, which follows Lily Allen as she tries to establish a vintage clothes shop with her sister, start a family with her boyfriend and of course, try to shake off all that ‘unwanted press attention’, ended on a very sad note.

Over the past few weeks we’ve watched as Lily takes offence to her sister taking over in the running of vintage store Lucy in Disguise, played with her dog and gone to various events.

We’ve also watched her suffer morning sickness and have to take time off because at the time of filming she was pregnant. Of course we’ve been watching the series in fear because we know what happens, and we really hoped the show’s producers dealt with it in the sympathetic way it deserved. And we were pleasantly surprised as when the scenes finally hit Lily was strong. In fact she and her sister sat and discussed the tragedy in depth.

Not only did this show Lily in a new light but also put paid to our views that Lily wasn’t just a one dimensional celebrity.

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TV Gallery: First look inside the Big Brother 11 house

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Oh yes. Big Brother: The Launch kicks off this week (Channel 4, Wednesday, 9 June, 9pm) and of course, with that is a load of twists and turns. Some of this years prospective housemates won’t even make it through the front door. Those that do make it will be greeted by a rather peculiar looking house this year, which we’ve got nice pictures of for you to look at. Flowers and birds feature heavily this year in a house that is so visually busy that we may well see our housemates literally blinded, leaving them to awkwardly bump into each other for 3 months.

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TV Gallery: Christina Hendricks

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks – men drool over her. Women drool over her even more. So it is only right that Esquire magazine should announce her to be the sexiest woman in the universe. Okay, she was voted Best Looking American Woman, but I prefer my version of events. So, with complete shamelessness, let’s ogle her and admire her taste in clothes in this gallery.

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Coronation Street’s Betty is 90 today!

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Coronation Street’s First Lady, Betty Turpin (well, she’s called Williams now, but she’ll always be ‘Turpin’ to me) is 90 years old today!

Betty Driver (that’s her real name, in case you didn’t know) has been playing the Queen of Hotpot since 1969! Originally, she auditioned for the role of Hilda Ogden but lost out because producers wanted someone ‘who did not weigh as much’.

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New look ITV News studio

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

In just under half an hour, ITV will unveil the latest news studio. In fairness, it looks a bit like Manchester drug den of yore, The Hacienda nightclub. Of course, with that being part-owned by Tony Wilson, it has a link to the news room (for those who don’t know, Mr Wilson started out as a news reader on Granada TV). So, to celebrate the new gaff, let us have a look at the ITN newsrooms over the years… and boy, they’re a lot swisher than they used to be! Just click on the image to view!

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TV Gallery: Ugly Betty, Channel 4, Wednesday 1 July, 10pm

Monday, June 29th, 2009

I have a bit of an odd relationship with Ugly Betty. Whenever I watch it, I enjoy it, but I don’t make any time for it, and I’d completely forgotten that the third series was starting on e4 and Channel 4 last week. So, to try to garner some enthusiasm for this silly show that would be described – were it a novel – as ‘magic realism’, here’s a gallery of snaps from the second episode which airs this week. If you’ve lost track of what’s happening, Wilhelmina is back in charge at Mode, and has offered a newly re-engerised Betty a job as her assistant. Click on the pic below to get going…

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TV Gallery: Chelsea Flower Show, BBC One, Sunday 17 May, 6pm

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

There’s a bit of stigma around watching the BBC’s coverage of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show – people think it’s dull, I guess, or at least a little too sedate. But in these fast-moving, stressful times, isn’t ‘sedate’ a good thing? Isn’t a nice, calming wander through a beautiful garden precisely what the doctor ordered? I certainly think so, and if we can’t get there in person, at least we can plonk ourselves in front of the TV and have the flora brought to us. There’s a preview show tonight at 6pm, and it’s on for an hour everyday at midday on BBC One, and another hour-long programme each night at 8pm on BBC Two. In the meantime, click on the lupins for a gallery of pictures from last year’s event.

Related: Set The Video – Chelsea Flower Show 2008

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TV Gallery: Endgame, Channel 4

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

If you’re looking for something meaty to watch this Bank Holiday weekend, I would point you in the direction of Endgame – the story of the secret meetings that took place between the ANC’s Thabo Mbeki and Afrikana Professor Willie Esterhuyse that paved the way for dialogue between the apartheid government and the ANC, the demolition of apartheid and the eventual release of Nelson Mandela. It’s got a great cast – Chiwetel Ejiojor, William Hurt, Johnny Lee Miller, Mark Strong and The Wire’s Clark Peters – and is riveting stuff. It’s on Channel 4, Monday 4 May at 9pm and you can have a look at some images from the film by clicking on the one below.

Related: First Look: Endgame

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TV Gallery: Hell’s Kitchen contestants revealed!

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

During the past few weeks, there has been various rumblings in the redtop press speculating as to who will be the next batch of sleb contestants to throw themselves into the Hell’s Kicthen – Marco Pierre White’s cooking reality show, where he gets to scream and swear at his proteges until they cook up to scratch. What we did know was the excellent Claudia Winkles is taking over the presenting duties, and that Danielle Bux – model and Gary Lineker’s Mrs – would be taking part. Now the full line-up has been revealed and, apart from Adrian Edmondson below, you can see who will be occupying your living rooms for a couple of weeks, in a couple of weeks time (although a report in today’s Sun suggests that Dynasty’s Linda Evans has pulled out already). Click on Ade to see who’s who.

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TV Gallery: The Inbetweeners, e4

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Yes, ok, so I am now officially That Annoying Person who latches onto something a year after everyone else and then bangs on about how good it is. But then, I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t spread the word, now would I, so I have a water-tight excuse (if you ignore the fact that it’s also my job to keep up with these things, of course…) Anyway, The Inbetweeners is wonderful, and in celebration of its witty, clever writing and engaging performances, here’s a little gallery of the stars of the show. Click on Will’s face to enter a world of awkwardness and misplaced bravado…

Related: TV Review – The Inbetweeners | Trailer Trash – The Inbetweeners

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TV Gallery: Primeval, series three

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Series three of human versus dinosaur mash-up series, Primeval, starts up this weekend (Saturday 28 March, 7.20pm) with ten new stories all featuring Hannah Spearitt in her underpants. Well, not strictly true. Series three’s opener sees the team take on a super crocodile, which is causing havoc in the British Museum. I don’t blame it. Have you seen the queues at the British Museum these days? For good, wholesome Primeval images from the first ep, click on the one below.

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TV Gallery Part Two: The Apprentice contestants revealed!

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

A little bit earlier I posted up the details of the new contestants for The Apprentice. Here’s the second part. You can click on the image below to complete the latest shower, but here they are: 1. Paula Jones (29, Walsall, Human Resource Consultant); 2. Phillip Taylor (29, Country Durham, Estate Agent); 3. Rocky Andrews (21, North Yorkshire, Sandwich Chain Owner); 4. Yasmina Siadatan (27, London, Restaurateur). All this lot will be in action next Wednesday (25 March) on BBC One.

Related: TV Gallery Part One: The Apprentice fun starts, Surralan word-smacks Paxo, contestants revealed! | Our Apprentice section

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TV Gallery Part One: The Apprentice fun starts, Surralan word-smacks Paxo, contestants revealed!

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

What a nice little palate-whetter last week’s Comic Relief Does The Apprentice was. Now it’s time for the real thing, when the series proper starts next week. Which is good news, because TV has taken a bit of a breather recently after the flurry of really great stuff during the early, winter months of 2009. The Apprentice represents Must See TV, for many differing reasons, so it can’t come soon enough. It’s already generating some press too – in today’s Sun (quoting the Radio Times), Surralan has a go at Jeremy Paxman, after Paxo said the show was full of cocky know-it-alls. That’d be good – Surralan and Paxo in a bitch fight. Anyway, enough of that, here are the contestants, who we’ll see in next week’s show. Click on the image below to see all… but here’s a run down: 1. Anita Shah (35, Birmingham, Lawyer); 2. Ben Clarke (22, Belfast, Trainee Stockbroker); 3. Debra Barr (24, Surrey, Senior Sales Consultant); 4. Howard Ebison (24, Derby, Retail Business Manager); 5. James McQuillan (32, Surrey, Senior Commercial Manager); 6. Kate Walsh (27, Hampshire, Licensing Development Manager); 7. Kimberly Davis (33, London, Marketing Consultant); 8. Lorraine Tighe (36, Kent, National Accounts Manager); 9. Majid Nagra (28, Coventry, Business Development Manager); 10. Mona Lewis (28, Kent, Senior Business Manager); 11. Noorul Choudhury (33, Rochdale, Science Teacher).

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TV Gallery: Red Riding 1980

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Despite all the hype, Our John found the first episode of Red Riding to be a bit disappointing. But have no fear, the second episode – 1980 – is on tomorrow night (Channel 4, Thursday 12 March, 9pm) and, again, it has some British acting heaveyweight – there’s the brilliant Paddy Considine as a super cop sent in to root out the corruption and Maxine Peake as his colleague and ex-lover. Should be good, could be great… 1980 has the Yorkshire Ripper investigation at its heart. To have a look at some image from the episode, click on the picture below.

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TV Gallery: Red Riding 1974, Channel 4

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Everyone’s girding their loins for the drama event of the year tomorrow night – the first part of Channel 4′s Red Riding trilogy (1974, Thursday 5 March, 9pm). It has got Boy A’s Andrew Garfield in it, Vicky Christina Barcelona’s brilliant Rebecca Hall in it, it has got David Morrissey in it, Warren Clarke, it’s got got Sean Bean in very tight rollneck jumpers in it and it has got loads of other actors you’ll recognise from Life On Mars in it. Let’s take a look – click on the picture below and be transported into a world when men were men. Or something.

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TV Gallery: Moving Wallpaper, ITV1

Friday, February 27th, 2009

The TV producer from hell, Jonathan Pope, returns to ITV1 in Moving Wallpaper tonight (Friday 27 February, 9pm), and even if everything around him sucks, it’s almost guaranteed that watching the brilliant Ben Miller hamming it up will be a joy. Kelly Brook joins the cast this series, who’s usually a lot of fun if not the world’s greatest actress, and Raquel Cassidy, who plays Rick’s smug wife in Lead Balloon, returns as the suit trying to ruin Jonathan’s career. For piccies of these delightful people, and some zombies, click on Mr Miller below…

Related: TV Review – Moving Wallpaper / Echo Beach *** Echo Beach is dead! Moving Wallpaper lives! Long live the un-dead Renaissance!

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TV Gallery: FM, ITV2

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

ITV2 has been trying to position itself as ITV1′s edgier, cooler little brother for some time now, and as such a lot of their new comedies end up on the digital channel. Katy Brand and Keith Lemon have found their home there (make of that what you will) but there have been some rather more interesting commissions such as Comedy Cuts. On Wednesday, another of these new comedies, FM, begins, which is based around the lives of the Nathan Barleys who inhabit an XFM-style indie radio station. With Chris O’Dowd and the always delightful Nina Sosanya on board, it’s got to be worth a look. For now, click on the photo below for more pretty piccies…

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TV Gallery: Free Agents, Channel 4

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Tonight on Channel 4 (Friday 13 April, 10pm) sees the start of a new sitcom with massive potential. All the previews I’ve read say it’s very rude and very funny, so let’s just look at the quality. Stephen Magan. Nice. Sharon Horgan. Nice. Anthony Head. OK. So far so pretty good, but you have to admit it has been a long time since a sitcom took us by storm. There’s a lot riding on this, and I hope it succeeds. Anyway, Free Agents is set in the media world of talent agents (surely ripe for ripping apart) and features Mangan and Horgan as two emotional f***-ups who threaten to get together, but don’t. Click on the image below to be transported into the world of the Free Agents.

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TV Gallery: Whitechapel, ITV1

Friday, January 30th, 2009

ITV1 is carving a really nice little niche out for itself at the moment. It’s the channel to go to for short-run, interesting dramas and the latest starts next Monday (Monday 2 February, 9pm). It stars Ruper Penry-Jones, the ever-scowling Phil Davis and Steve Pemberton in a new take on the Ripper myth/story. When a grisly murder takes places in the wastelands of London’s Eastend, smart and posh DI Joseph Chandler gets fast-tracked onto the case, he soon finds out he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s not getting much help from his experienced partner, Ray Miles, but they start to bond when they find more murders replicating the original Ripper’s methods. Together, and with Steve Pemberton’s eccentric Ripper tour operator, they try to crack the case. To get you in the mood, click on the image below and be transported into a world of… well, actually click on the image below to see more images.

For all Whitechapel news and reviews, go here.

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