10:58am Thursday 18th March 2010
MUSIC on television is a drab affair these days.
5:24pm Friday 12th March 2010
THE greatest double act on the small screen at the moment has returned triumphantly to Sky One.
5:45pm Thursday 4th March 2010
A LETTER fell out of a birthday card sent to my partner by her friend Dominique.
5:43pm Thursday 4th March 2010
I QUITE like Michael Winner. He made rubbish films, his insurance adverts are terrible, but somehow he managed a long-term relationship with Jenny Seagrove and he once ordered his chauffeur to stop while I crossed a road in London, enthusiastically waving me on in the process.
5:51pm Thursday 25th February 2010
“WHOEVER wins this it could change their laaaf,” hollers grocer Gregg as he shouts in another series of Masterchef.
5:50pm Thursday 25th February 2010
IN 1985, as we settled down in our gaff with a nice cup of cha, I says to my old mum, I says, “Mum, the only soaps that will still be going in 2010 will be Albion Market and El Dorado, you mark my words."
3:26pm Friday 19th February 2010
TELEVISION seems designed to provoke jealousy.
12:07pm Wednesday 10th February 2010
PETER Kay fans will be able to see the Bolton comedian host this year’s BRIT awards when they are broadcast live on ITV on Tuesday.
11:54am Thursday 4th February 2010
IF nothing else, this programme serves up (ho ho ho) a lesson as to why viewing figures have dipped over the years.
5:30pm Friday 29th January 2010
THIS programme arrived much-hyped, with a strong on-screen team and a decent concept.
5:16pm Friday 29th January 2010
WATCHING roughly eight Sky+ed episodes of this taught me two things: why the world is hurtling towards full unemployment and just how my teachers managed to make science so boring.
4:22pm Friday 29th January 2010
SO tonight’s the big night — it’s the Big Brother final.
6:01pm Friday 22nd January 2010
TV fans still mourning The Sopranos are in for a treat with the latest US-imported drama, Nurse Jackie.
3:57pm Thursday 21st January 2010
ARE Dave Myers and Si King the luckiest people on television?
4:05pm Thursday 14th January 2010
Just as I thought Gordon Ramsay had completely lost the plot, he pulled it back from the brink.
11:56am Friday 8th January 2010
SO, the last Gavin and Stacey ever? Or was it?
3:39pm Friday 18th December 2009
I learned two things from this week’s telly: midwives are angels on earth and Amanda Holden is actually quite nice.
5:32pm Thursday 17th December 2009
TIMES have changed. Attracting a few meat and potato pie-chomping, real ale quaffing, beer-bellied Henry V111 lookalikes to the back room of your pub on a Thursday night is no longer enough to sustain a boozer.
4:26pm Monday 14th December 2009
CAN Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care Homes? That was the title of the programme I stumbled upon this week.
4:31pm Thursday 10th December 2009
I have not watched every episode of the outstanding Life, but having sat enthralled through the programme about plants, wished I had put it on “series record”.
4:30pm Thursday 10th December 2009
I occasionally watch The One Show as anything with Adrian Chiles in it is invariably good.
2:55pm Friday 4th December 2009
ESSENTIALLY, the producers here have managed to make an entire series about a company that bakes cakes.
1:23pm Friday 4th December 2009
By all accounts I really shouldn’t like Gavin and Stacey.
11:33am Friday 27th November 2009
NO wonder the Americans struggled in Vietnam! I’ve only watched a TV programme about killer insects and diseases and I’m outta there.
5:01pm Friday 20th November 2009
I don’t think there’s a woman in the world who wouldn’t want to put Katie Price in her place.
8:57am Thursday 19th November 2009
I was chortling away while reading a section in Frankie Boyle’s autobiography about mum of 14 Nadya Suleman — who had eight kids in one go — when this programme about her popped up on screen.
8:57am Thursday 19th November 2009
FROM Paul McCartney to Elbow — The South Bank Show has done as much to move pop music into the same category as art, ballet, theatre and opera as any other programme over the past 30 years.
8:58am Thursday 19th November 2009
I quite like this quirky little programme, narrated by Scottish actor Peter Capaldi, but it has to be said that if you watch it regularly it does become a tad repetitive.
11:04am Friday 13th November 2009
MORE and more nowadays I’m finding myself switching off the terrestrial channels and moving to satellite.
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