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

Ice, Ice Baby

Just before our vacation, we were frantically trying to free up some space on our Sky Planner and we decided to give the Top Gear: Polar Special the 10-minute test. The test was a clear success as we happily sat down for an hour and enjoyed the antics of the trio of presenters. Jeremy Clarkson and James May joined forces in a Toyota Hilux 4×4 to race to the North Pole against Richard Hammond who was on a dog sled. The mention of the Toyota is important because it is

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Tags: Factual, James-May, Jeremy-Clarkson, North-Pole, Richard-Hammond, Top-Gear

More Desperate Than Usual

Well, England winning the Commonwealth Bank Cricket tournament after having odds way outside of “100-1 against” just two weeks ago was probably the most surprising thing I’ve seen on TV in ages and it was certainly a highlight of the week for me.� In typical England supporter mode, I now find myself being ridiculously optimistic about the forthcoming World Cup and, if they win that, I may even grant them my prestigious “Show-Of-The-Week” award… but not this time.� I have also

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Tags: 24, Charlie-Brooker, Cricket, Desperate-Housewives, General, Lost, Prison-Break, Top-Gear

Living On The Edge

“I’ve got 10,000 horse power and possibly the biggest accident you’ve ever seen in your life” - Richard Hammond, a few minutes before the biggest accident I’ve ever seen in my life.

It is quite something to have a show about cars watched by 100 million people worldwide, but that is what the BBC have on their hands in Top Gear.� It is also quite something to have a show about cars that goes up in the schedules against

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Tags: bbc2, Crash, Factual, Jeremy-Clarkson, Richard-Hammond, Top-Gear

Car Crash TV (headline shamelessly stolen from Radio Times)

A week in which the paucity of my viewing from Monday to Saturday was more than made up for in a Sunday marathon of shows that culminated in a nuclear device being exploded in Los Angeles… and I thought I was going to have nothing to write about. The fourth week of 2007 saw me enjoy (for want of a better word) a couple of cup ties in the football and catch up with some old stuff that has been sitting idle for a while (This Life +10 and a couple of documentaries,

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Tags: 24, Battlestar Galactica, Blog-Wars, Commander-In-Chief, ER, General, Parallel-Worlds, This-Life, Top-Gear, Waking-The-Dead

Christmas Review #10 of 12

When Top Gear host, Richard Hammond, known to his fellow presenters (and now probably to viewers as well) as The Hamster, crashed a rocket car last September at a speed of nigh on 300mph, most of us instinctively feared the worst.� Even, as the news slowly filtered out from the medical teams in the weeks following the accident, few people would have imagined that Richard would have been photographed out and about on his motorbike and doing the chatshow circuit

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Tags: BBC1, Chat-Show, David-Letterman, General, Jay-Leno, Jonathan-Ross, Loose-Women, Paul-OGrady, Richard-&-Judy, Richard-Hammond, This-Morning, Top-Gear, Wogan