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

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

Staying In Is The New Going Out

It’s been a quiet few days here at Fazzinchi Towers, so apologies for the lack of updates.� I have about five posts that I’ve started but have yet to finish, plus the tenth and final installment of the Series One Retrospective for “Bad Wolf/Parting Of The Ways” and, inevitably, the review of “Daleks In Manhatten” that will be shown tonight.� Plenty in the pipeline then.� Meanwhile, The Other Viewer and I had one of those lazy Friday nights on the sofa yesterday and there was a fair amount

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Tags: Arcade-Fire, BBC1, bbc2, Culture-Show, General, Harry-Enfield, Heroes, HIGNFY, Jonathon-Ross, Paul-Whitehouse, QI, Stephen-Fry

Stephen Fry And Sister Discuss His Condition

It takes some quite remarkable courage to not only delve deep into your own personality and history, and then cast a critical eye over how an ailment like manic depression has affected you, but to undergo this soul-searching in front of a camera and give the populace that insight too is quite some feat. I had little to no knowledge of bipolar dissorder before this two-part Stephen Fry documentary, The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive, aired a few weeks ago but I felt that I

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Tags: Alan-Davies, BAFTA, bbc2, BBC4, Bipolar, Comedy, Factual, Hugh-Laurie, Jeremy-Clarkson, Manic-Depression, QI, Stephen-Fry