Christmas Review #3 of 12

“Happily ever after” is how Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant brought The Office to an end as Dawn and Tim finally got together and even David Brent himself found someone special in that most memorable of finales, four year’s ago.  Trying to force lightening to strike in the same place a second time has proved tricky but there were many great little moments throughout the two series of Extras that led me to think that the Christmas Special finale would be well worth watching and

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Tags: Andy-Millman, Ashley-Jensen, BBC, David Tennant, Extras, Hale and Pace, Ricky-Gervais, Stephen-Merchant, The Ivy, The-Office

CTU - It’s A Funny Old Place

At last, we’ve headed back to catch up with the trials and tribulations of the CTU agents, government officials and a certain Jack Bauer in series of six of 24, which launched here on Sunday night with a double header on Sky One.� In between the bombs and the torture scenes, there was a most puzzling event that caused me to stop and rewind the Sky+ player, convinced I was seeing things.� However, there it was (and captured for posterity above) a cameo appearance from Britain’s

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Tags: 24, Chloe-OBrian, CTU, Jack-Bauer, Keifer-Sutherland, Modern Drama, Morris-OBrian, Stephen-Merchant