Misfits Review: Superpowers of Entertainment

MISFITS: Thursday 12th November, E4, 10pm ALERT ME

A bunch of young offenders would usually be the last people that you’d want to see get superpowers.

But in the interests of fantastic television, it turned out to be a very good thing that five tearaways doing a community service stint ended up receiving more special abilities than you would find in the average X-Men film.

Misfits is a witty and original drama/comedy which has more style than a copy of Read More…

Banged Up Abroad Review: Puff The Boring Dragon

BANGED UP ABROAD – PARTY GIRL: Wednesday 11th November, National Geographic Channel, 9pm ALERT ME

It’s a well known fact that smuggling drugs in a foreign country is riskier than having a quick dip in Michael Barrymore’s swimming pool, but we Brits constantly seem to end up doing it.

Normal procedure is to get caught with a suitcase full of weed, claim that some local has set you up, spend a couple of years in a horrendous jail and then write the obligatory book which you hope will “stop other people making the same mistake.”

Banged Up Abroad is pretty standard fare, although it does go some way to explaining how easily these kind of mistakes can be made. Read More…

Sea Patrol Review:We’ve Got A Sinking Feeling…

SEA PATROL: Tuesday 10th November, Five, 8pm

Us Brits love a moan, but it’s all too easy to take things for granted.

The emergency services, for example. While the rest of us sit snug in our living rooms watching Deal Or No Deal and eating KitKats, this brave lot dash about in the cold and wet, clearing up bloody motorway pile-ups, and going face to face with gangs of feral teenagers. Read More…

When A Mother’s Love Is Not Enough Review: Special Television

WHEN A MOTHER’S LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH: Tuesday 10th November, BBC One, 10:35pm Alert Me

Capturing the reality of raising a disabled child is difficult to tackle.

But Rosa Monckton provides a fairly objective and poignantly candid portrait of families dealing with this issue in Britain today in When a Mother’s Love is Not Enough.

Monckton, a self-proclaimed businesswoman, charity worker and confidante of the late Princess Diana (shameless exploitation), speaks to five families and their challenging children in this sombre documentary. Read More…

Neighbours Lily Allen Review: It’s Not Us, It’s You

NEIGHBOURS: Tuesday 10th November, Five, 1:45pm/5:30pm

Taking a break from her increasingly militant stance against illegal file-sharers, Lily Allen will be slipping off to Ramsay Street, Erinsborough for Tuesday’s much-anticipated episode of Neighbours.

The double platinum singer allegedly grew up watching the Aussie soap opera.

Fans have been buzzing about the cameo since Read More…

The Execution of Gary Glitter Review: Leader To Be Hanged

THE EXECUTION OF GARY GLITTER: Monday 9th November, Channel 4, 9pm ALERT ME

In an independent poll carried out earlier this year, 54% of the people surveyed thought the UK should bring back the death penalty for the most serious crimes.

When capital punishment was revoked in 1969, many experts predicted that support for it would eventually fade.

Evidently this has not happened and Channel 4 will go some way to blowing the debate open again with this Read More…

Collision Review: Crash and Burn

COLLISION: Monday 9th November , ITV1, 9pm Alert Me

We have seen it over and over again.

The lives of strangers intertwine, be it on an island or in space.

And then of course, there is the highway. Collision is the latest crime drama series on ITV1. Read More…

Michael Portillo – Digging Up The Dead Review: Grave Television

MICHAEL PORTILLO: DIGGING UP THE DEAD: Monday 9th November, BBC Four, 9pm Alert Me

Spain. Rugged mountain escapes and shimmering shoreline destinations.

Oh yeah, and thousands of mass murder graves.

A tad harrowing, Digging up the Dead examines the trauma Spain faced following the end of its bloody civil war 70 years ago. General Franco’s brutal dictatorship and military coup beginning in 1936 that spawned years of murderous rampages and “graves of oblivion.” Read More…

Death In Venice Review: Mama Miaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

DEATH IN VENICE: Saturday 7th November, LIVING, 9pm ALERT ME

When Paul O’Grady’s agent called him about a TV show in Venice, he probably thought the job would involve a couple of hours on the Rialto Bridge followed by a weekend of bolognese and bellinis.

But going on holiday with Yvette Fielding is far less relaxing than it used to be.

Suffice to say, there wasn’t a gondola in sight when the nation’s favourite ghost hunter and her new accomplice set off to investigate a Venetian island, thought by many experts to be “the most haunted place on the planet”. Read More…

Campus Review: Vice-Chancellor Brent

CAMPUS: Friday 6th November, Channel 4, 10pm ALERT ME

As they sat in the union bemoaning a seven hour-a-week schedule, pretty much every student must have decided to write a sitcom about their hilarious life at university.

Great nights out and lazy days watching Countdown – such an existence seemed ripe for comedy.

For some reason, they never considered writing about the lecturers themselves, which is odd because you really couldn’t hope to meet a stranger group of people than the collection of post-grads who fumbled between seminars wearing inexplicable jackets. Read More…

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