Cape of Some Hope

I was struggling to arrive at a Show Of The Week (TM) for a while back there. Throughout week 28 I had been idly channel hopping and keeping up with the backlog on the Sky planner (Andrew Marr’s history of the Thatcher years was a bit of an eye opener… I really should have kept a closer eye on current affairs back then) but all the surfing was without any great sense of direction. The downside was that I was once more drawn into Big Brother where “fake week” was in full swing

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Tags: Andrew-Marr, Big-Brother, Cape-Wrath, Courtney-Cox, David-Morrisey, Deathly-Hallows, Dirt, General, Harry-Potter, Matthew-Perry, Meadowlands, Order-of-the-Phoenix, Studio-60

Life On Marr

Anyone watching TV this week would know that the biggest talking point was Emily being thrown out of the BB House for using a racially offensive word. Channel 4, after showing the incident in full received over a thousand complaints, almost all of which were from people complaining about the eviction rather than the use of the word. Love it or hate it but there is undeniable benefit in putting debates such as this in the public spotlight and even if only a few people take a look at

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Tags: Andrew-Marr, Big-Brother, Cricket, Desperate-Housewives, Doctor Who, General, History-of-Britain, Stephen-Moffatt

Whose Boat Is It Then?

The twenty first week of the year came up trumps for some top quality viewing, which was for the best considering the terrible weather we’ve been having that’s forcing everyone indoors. The eighth week of The Apprentice was a bit of a weak affair relative to the rest of the series but still managed some great “reality” moments with Jadine finally being fired. I’m tempted to go into more detail on these episodes but I could do no better than (in fact, I couldn’t do anywhere near as well

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Tags: Andrew-Marr, Apprentice, David-Morse, Doctor Who, England, General, House, Lost, Paul-Cornell, West-Indies

Andrew Marr Oversees Our Modern History

I am not a frequent watcher of history programming, in fact, I struggle to recall the last time I sat down to watch any factual history programme. So, it was just a coincidence that I sat down on Monday evening and, while flicking through the EPG, I saw that Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain was about to start on BBC2. I can safely say I learned more about the history of Britain from watching this than I have from any other source. This first of five parts took us on an intriguing

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Tags: Andrew-Marr, bbc2, Britain, Churchill, Clement-Attlee, Factual, History, NHS, William-Beveridge, World-War-Two

Doctor Who Retrospective #4 of 10 “Aliens of London”/ “World War Three”

If I were to write a potted history of the re-launched series of Doctor Who, which in a way, I am, I think I would take a moment to consider the impact of the first two-part story “Aliens of London” and “World War Three”. I have to confess that this is one of my least favourite stories of the whole re-invented series. The reasons are not for any one significant reason, rather it is a series of little peculiarities that irritates me. However, let’s start with the positive stuff. The initial

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Tags: Aliens-of-London, Andrew-Marr, Billie-Piper, Christopher-Eccleston, David Tennant, Doctor Who, Jackie, Mickey, Powell-Estate, Rose, Sltheen, World-War-Three