Confessions Of A Traffic Warden Review: Total Clampers?
CONFESSIONS OF A TRAFFIC WARDEN: Thursday 19th November, Channel 4, 9pm ALERT ME
Durga Pokhall is a Nepalese immigrant who speaks four languages, reads Shakespeare and aims to earn the respect of noble Englanders by handing out parking tickets.
As you can imagine, he is in for quite a shock.
After a couple of months, the idealistic little dude’s vision of a British population who value honour and spirituality have been well and truly dashed. As it turns out, the ‘crafty’ illegal parkers will do anything to avoid getting a ticket. Read More…
Yvette & Karl – Style Me Review: Keeping Up Appearances
November 18, 2009 by Cheryl Freedman
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YVETTE & KARL – STYLE ME: Wednesday 18th November, Living, 9pm Alert Me
Is there a celebrity couple left in the country without a camera crew permanently installed in their living room, recording the deathly dull minutiae of their lives?
Following in the footsteps of Peter and Katie, Sharon and Ozzy et al, are Yvette Fielding and husband Karl Beattie.
Once known for being a Blue Peter presenter, these days Yvette is the self-styled ‘First Lady of the Paranormal’, hunting down ghouls and ghosties for Living TV’s scarily popular Most Haunted, along with co-presenter (and producer) Karl. Read More…
Nip/Tuck Season 5 Review: Wheely Good Time
November 17, 2009 by Emily Moulder
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NIP/TUCK: Wednesday 18th November, FX UK, 10pm
No wonder plastic surgery is so popular if this is what your doctors are like.
Sean and Christian are back with their scalpels and are still trying to either slice open or have sex with every woman that crosses their path.
Here’s a quick recap of what happened before: Julia’s recovering from her gunshot and is dealing with some memory loss. Matt is still reeling from the shock of accidentally sleeping with his sister. And Christian is just being Christian.
Meanwhile crazed stalker Colleen had pushed Sean to the limit. She snuck into the operating theatre where Sean is about to work on his daughter following her car crash. Colleen grabs a knife and brutally attacks Sean, leaving his life hanging in the balance.
The second half of Season 5 follows on with Sean recovering from his life threatening injuries. The shows jumps 4 months into the future and reveals Read More…
Enid Review: Write Mentalist
ENID: Monday 16th November, BBC4, 9pm ALERT ME
It’s nearly impossible to imagine a programme about Enid Blyton which doesn’t include some posh young vigilantes armed to the teeth with ginger beer.
But the only lashings that go on in this piece of television are aimed solely at the author herself.
Instead of giving us a fluffily saccharine version of the storyteller’s life, the BBC has crafted a probing and original period drama which vividly portrays her as a woman who has more in common with Lady MacBeth than Beatrix Potter. Read More…
The Queen In 3D Review: Pass One’s Goggles
THE QUEEN IN 3D: Monday 16th November, Channel 4, 9pm Alert Me
If you remember the sixties then you weren’t really there and if you remember the Queen’s coronation then you’re old enough to get a free bus pass.
Many things may have changed since that sepia-tinted day when a sexy young Elizabeth Windsor skipped into Westminster Abbey to be crowned, but the British people’s fascination with the monarchy has apparently endured.
Royalists will obviously be more enthusiastic about this than a bunch of students at a free bar – but is there anything here for the rest of us? Read More…
Doctor Who – The Waters of Mars Review: H2Whoa!
November 13, 2009 by Sean Marland
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DOCTOR WHO – THE WATERS OF MARS: Sunday 15th November, BBC1, 7pm ALERT ME
In the last decade, astrological boffins have become very excited by the discovery of water on Mars.
But instead of working their fingers to the bone on the nearest gigantic calculator they could find, these excitable NASA employees should have contacted David Tennant.
In his pre-penultimate outing as the Doctor, he discovers that the water on Mars is not so much exciting, but down-right treacherous. Read More…
The Dog Whisperer Review: All Bark…
November 13, 2009 by Cheryl Freedman
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THE DOG WHISPERER: Friday 13th November, Nat Geo Wild, 7pm
When I was growing up, we owned an out-of-control dog called Monty.
One of the more mortifying episodes of my childhood occurred when a friend came round for tea and Monty vigorously dry-humped her leg. When I dragged him off, he bit my arm – I still bear the scars today.
Alas poor misunderstood Monty is no longer with us, but if he was I’d definitely be glued to The Dog Whisperer. Read More…
Axe Men Season 2 Review: Lame-Brain Loggers
AXE MEN: Friday 13th November, Five, 8pm Alert Me
Lumberjacks are like mutant superheroes.
They brave razor-sharp chainsaws, icy rivers and swinging 180-feet hooked line.
Thrill-seekers, adrenaline junkies and all-around crazies, they are the Axe Men (cue melodramatic symphonic score).
The non-fiction series Axe Men tracks competing American logging crews as they chain-saw and haul their way through the jungle of the Pacific Northwest. Read More…
PhoneShop Review: Failing At Funny
November 12, 2009 by Danielle Jacoby
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PHONESHOP: Friday 13th November, Channel 4, 10pm Alert Me
Improvised sitcoms can go one of two ways.
They can leave us with laugh-out-loud stomach pains or a gnawing emptiness that leads us asking ‘eh’? We are going to have to go with the latter for Comedy Showcase’s second pilot, PhoneShop.
Written by Phil Bowker (Pulling, 15 Storeys High and Time Gentlemen, Please) and script edited by Ricky Gervais, PhoneShop centres on the quirky employees of a High Street UK mobile phone shop. It is a comical concept backed by a quirky cast, but a half-hour of drawn-out jokes kills the buzz early on. Read More…
River Monsters Review: Fin Dining
RIVER MONSTERS: Thursday 12th November, ITV, 7.30pm ALERT ME
After you hear about a catfish that can swim into a bloke’s penis while he’s whizzing in the river, you start to think that Piranhas might not be worst thing to live in the waters of South America.
We would still think twice before getting our rubber ring out though – but Jeremy Wade is not only a very brave television presenter, he’s an extreme angler who finds the deadliest fish on the planet and joins them for a spot of backstroke.
Steve Irwin would have been proud… Read More…
