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New Blood. Some old ideas. But it all balances out as a show worth watching. Mark Strepan (as Serious Fraud Officer Stefan Kowolski) and Ben Tavassoli (as pavement-plodder-donut-scoffer-turned-budding detective Rash Sayyad) are new to these …
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Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle is another in the long line of Steve Coogan‘s character’s spin-offs and I can’t claim to have seen every last minute of his output, but what I have seen I’ve hugely …
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Top Gear returns to BBC2 with Chris Evans and Matt Matt LeBlanc taking over from Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May after Clarkson punched his producer in a restaurant (which was referenced, here, in …
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Love, Nina begins with us first seeing the titular character walking barefoot, which she does constantly… because she’s quirky. However, there’s no way anyone would do that normally, given all the crap on the ground. …
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Going Forward carries on where Getting On left off, with Jo Brand returning as nurse Kim Wilde, having left the NHs two years earlier and now works for a private healthcare firm, Buccaneer 2000, doing …
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A Different Brain is the second new Louis Theroux documentary this year, and it looks at a number of people who’ve suffered brain Injuries due to various reasons. Louis describes the situation brilliantly early on, …
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Roobarb and Custard is one of many classic TV series from my childhood, the original of which was made in 1974 when I was just two, so I mostly remember it as it was repeated …
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Mum is Lesley Manville‘s character, Cathy (right), coming to terms with her husband, Dave, haven’t recently passed away. As with any death, it’s not just about what still lies around the house, but little things …
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Cunk. Philomena Cunk. If anyone was going to make me sit up and pay attention to a documentary on Shakespeare, it was Ms Cunk. Portrayed brilliantly by Diane Morgan, Philomena Cunk is best known for …
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Upstart Crow is Ben Elton and David Mitchell‘s contribution to the BBC’s 400th ‘dead Shakespeare’ month-long love-in and, following, Peep Show, I didn’t think the latter could put a foot wrong… But then I heard …
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