Tweet The Apprentice (2) – Discovering the Bin I’ve never believed the claim that if you give an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters an infinite amount of time they will produce the works of Shakespeare. However measured against the likelihood of this year’s batch of apprentices coming up […]
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Tweet The American Election Process and The West Wing It seems to me the democratic process both in the UK and the US is in crisis: but for different reasons arising from the distinctly different systems. From the outside and as portrayed in the media, the American system seems close to […]
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Tweet Borgen (BBC4) – Adam Price This excellent political drama ended its 10 episode run on BBC4 last night. Following on from the unexpected world-wide hit with The Killing thriller series the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) is justifiably earning a reputation for grown-up TV driven by placing the quality of writing and narrative at […]
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Tweet Strictly Come Dancing – There’s No Trouble With Harry Singin’ In The Rain, Top Hat, It’s Always Fair Weather, Royal Wedding, On The Town. Test cases: anyone who watches these immortal examples of popular movie art and isn’t captivated by the sheer magic, sense of fun and joie de vivre captured in finite […]
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Tweet Strictly Come Dancing – Artem and his Buddy Holly Go Lightly Jason survived the COTS – Curse Of the Samba – just: thanks to an Argentine Tango performance from Kristina bordering on demonic. If this wild woman of dance gets any hotter, Jason will have to dance the final wearing oven gloves. Truth […]
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Tweet Strictly Come Dancing – Savage Cuts at the BBC Rockin’ Robbie takes his leave. Like most of the celebs on the show Robbie Savage has improved enormously over the weeks. His dancing has got better too. Obviously subdued and genuinely upset about the suicide this week of his friend and fellow player […]
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Tweet Strictly Come Dancing – The Magnificent Seven – left Not even a Hokey-Cokey to the Halleluiah Chorus would have had the audience on their feet so often. Seven dances, seven standing ovations. Even-handedness or what? There seem to be so many relations and friends of dancers in the audience of Strictly nowadays that we could create the ‘Strictly Wave’ where each related […]
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Tweet BBC – Strictly Come Dancing – The latest (Zettel) odds Previous odds in brackets Harry and Aliona – 2-1 (6-4, 6-4) Chelsee and Pasha – 2-1 (6-1, 6-1) Jason and Kristina – 3-1 (6-4, 6-4) Alex and James – 3-1 (6-1, 6-1) Holly and Artem – 4-1 (2-1, 2-1) Robbie and Ola – 7-1 (4-1, 4-1) Anita and Brendan/Robin – 10-1 (3-1, 3-1) But Robbie might go […]
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Tweet Strictly Come Dancing – Midnight: Cinderfella Went to, and Had a Ball. In one of those moments when the British people display their often underrated good sense, Russell Grant got fired – from the programme and a cannon. In perhaps the zaniest, most surreal moment in the history of a programme renowned […]
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Tweet BBC Strictly Come Dancing – The End of Audley Call the Health and Safety Exec. We need a risk assessment. Otherwise Russell is in danger of being the first human being to spontaneously combust on live TV if he keeps getting through on Strictly. Laggy Len (Jet that is) in one of his better […]
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