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

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Tags: Andrew-Collins, BBC, General, Jonathan-Ross, Most-Annoying-TV, Not-Going-Out, QI, Stephen-Fry

Tommy Jessop and Nicholas Hoult

Sunday nights are a strange time for watching television.  The early evening is a regular haunt of shows like Antiques Roadshow, Last of The Summer Wine, Heartbeat and, wierdly, an increasing number of sociological doumentaries: The Robert Winston Hour.  It is a television schedule designed for elderly aunts but for the rest of us it feels like a lull before the oncoming storm of the working week.  A kind of soporfic inducement to encourage us to bed early.  Later in the

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Tags: BBC1, Coming-Down-The-Mountain, Downs-Syndrome, General, Mark-Haddon, Nicholas-Hoult, Robert-Winston, Sunday, Tommy-Jessop

The Object of Angus Deayton’s Affection

Week thirty-six was decidedly forgetable. A few new series for the autumn season managed to sneak their debuts in with the chucklefest that is Not Going Out back for a second outing. I found that it was not quite up to the standard of last series and felt a bit like a reset because of the introduction of a replacement for Kate and the arrival of Miranda Hart as the maid. I’m certainly expecting it to get better as the show progresses. Friday nights are further bolstered by Jonathan

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Tags: General, Hells-Kitchen, Jonathan-Ross, Nigella-Express, Not-Going-Out, QI, The-IT-Crowd

House At Home

Another week over and a pretty quiet week it was too. Managed to finally get to the end of the third series of House, which ended with a cracking few episodes: Hugh Laurie on top form as his team dissappear from around him. Mainly the week was notable for the three ODI international, previously mentioned, that I watched (well, two matches and highlights show). Most disappointing was the dramatic downturn in the quality of the IT Crowd, the first episode of the second series

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Tags: Cricket, Drop-The-Dead-Donkey, General, House, IT-Crowd, Outnumbered

Here’s To The Winners
Week 33 and we’re almost back in the land of normality after our break but it’s now time to fill in those much-missed Show of the Week awards.  The last gong was figuratively handed out in Week 28 when Cape Wrath won but I still have all the 6 remaining episodes of that one left to watch… can anyone tell me if it will be worth it?  So, moving on, in Week 29 I think that the nod will have to go to a timeshifted, one-off drama that had been begging to be watched for weeks before

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Tags: Cape-Wrath, General, Mark-Gattiss, Studio-60, Top-Gear, Worst-Journey

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