Bucks Free Press: TV reviews and previews

Rage-fuelled hosts and TV comedy gold

10:07am Tuesday 4th August 2009

TV-BASED panel shows are back on our viewing menu this summer and, as ever, they are a decidedly mixed bag.

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As addictive as the drugs it’s based on

10:13am Tuesday 4th August 2009

IT gets a bit annoying when you’re hammered over the head with how good something is, week after week. In fact, if you’re told something is brilliant enough times, it’s pretty tempting to dislike it just on general principle.

Beware of loathsome parasites

10:16am Tuesday 4th August 2009

AT last, a TV drama to tell us how gobsmackingly stupid the nation’s financial wheeler-dealing had become in the days leading up to the credit crunch. Like we hadn’t heard that before.

It's motorised mayhem on Top Gear

12:16pm Friday 17th July 2009

THE most remarkable thing about Top Gear must surely be that after years of being the premier motoring show on the box it really isn’t about cars at all anymore.

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Homelessness – the reality exposure

2:33pm Friday 3rd July 2009

THE question of where celebrity reality TV can possibly go next is one that seems impossible to answer these days – the telly genre seems to know no bounds.

It’s certainly not for the squeamish

11:08am Monday 22nd June 2009

BETWEEN 1999 and 2002 The League of Gentlemen provided the British TV-watching public with hilarity and horror in equal measure in one of the most disturbing TV comedies of all time.

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Children’s programmes are smarter

11:07am Monday 22nd June 2009

I’LL be honest, my hopes were never high for Krod Mandoon and The Flaming Sword of Fire.

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Transforming the charity shop ...and staff

10:57am Friday 12th June 2009

THE only conclusion it was possible to come to after BBC Two’s Mary, Queen of Charity Shops last Tuesday, is that people are a pretty filthy and inconsiderate lot.

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Still no favourites for The Apprentice

2:07pm Tuesday 2nd June 2009

WITH just two more episodes to go, there is still no runaway candidate leading the pack of would-be white-collar wolves in the latest series of The Apprentice.

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TV review: QI

5:28pm Thursday 26th March 2009

IT is hard to have a conversation about anything these days without invoking the spirit of QI in some way or other.

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