T.V Week In Review: Week 38, 2007
Comics Brittanica Continuing to Entertain
Friday nights are undoubtedly back to being the definitive “staying in night” of the week. Of course, this meant that last Friday we went out to see some friends for dinner and had to postpone our viewing until Saturday but it was worth the wait. QI made a welcome return for its fifth series on BBC2 and the second installment, as is fast becoming tradition, followed immediately on another channel (to encourage all the luddites to upgrade to digi). Back on BBC1, I am delighted to report that Not Going Out, as I had hoped, is back to its best. We also enjoyed a couple of Jonathan Ross vehicles during the course of the week: his Friday Night… show continues to attract A-listers but it was his contribution to Comics Brittanica that was my highlight of the week. This has been a great series of shows over on BBC4 and, as Andrew Collins points out, is surely worthy of a repeat showing to a wider audience. Also, yet again I broke that promise to myself to studiously avoid “list shows” by sitting through hours of The Most Annoying TV We Love to Hate but it was actually quite entertaining. All in all, it looks like the autumn season is picking up nicely.
- Sun 23rd Sep: movie The Queen (8/10); Studio 60 OTSS “The Option Period”
- Sat 22nd Sep: Not Going Out “Librarian”; QI 5×01 and 5×02; Cricket Twenty20 Semi Final India v Australia; Friday Night With Jonathan Ross; The IT Crowd 2×04; The Most Annoying TV We Love To Hate - part 2
- Fri 21st Sep: No TV
- Thu 20th Sep: Channel hopping but didn’t watch anything of substance other than Spurs scoring six against some Cypriot outfit in the UEFA Cup.
- Wed 19th Sep: No TV
- Tue 18th Sep: In Search Of Steve Ditko; Friends “The One With The Flashback”; Cricket Highlights
- Mon 17th Sep: Nigella Express; Hell’s Kitchen Final
