The Apprentice
This is really good primetime TV. The kind of stuff you watch from between your fingers: a crowd of young people apparently selected because they have both low self-esteem and over-confidence issues (I think it’s called a ‘personality disorder’). Anyway, they make for utterly gripping viewing and I will certainly be glued to the screen [...]
I’d Do Anything: Auditions Show 1
I’m posting this as a test. If you can watch this show without crying you are a affectless sociopath and should surrender yourself at the nearest police station right away. My wife, most of my children, the dog and I blubbed more-or-less continuously. We’ve booked our appointment for the duration of the series. No normal [...]
This Week
Only mentioned because in some crazed tribute to Modern Review; the guest list for this weeks show is Jade Goody, Martin Amis and Simon Mayo. Goody, who does a fair stab at holding her own with Andrew Neil, is trying to convince us that binge drinking is very very bad. Amis, for some reason is [...]
Film 2008: Hollywood and the presidential race
There’s a really good bit towards the end of this episode of Film 2008 (did I ever tell you I knew someone who went to school with Barry Norman’s daughter?) about Hollywood’s involvement in the US presidential race (it would evidently be career suicide for a movie star to endorse a Republican). Nice bit of [...]
Hotel Babylon
Reporting from the Watchification Guilty Pleasures Department, tonight’s Hotel Babylon was a real treat. Alan Davies guest stars as a celebrity chef who is cuddly on TV but fearsome in the kitchen. ”I’m not that genial tit off the google box” he said. Not typecast at all, obviously.
I’ve come to Hotel Babylon quite late but the great thing [...]
