| Blood brothers | | 9:25am Tuesday 22nd April 2008 | | Holby City (BBC1, 8pm); Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts (BBC3, 9pm)
WHAT on earth is the difference
between Holby City
and Casualty? People have
tried to explain this to me,
but I'm convinced that
they are exactly the same
thing. As a licence payer, I feel pretty short
changed. It's like asking for an apple and an
orange at my local fruit and veg shop and
being handed two Granny Smiths. |
| Praiseworthy | | 12:00pm Monday 21st April 2008 | | How To Build A Cathedral (BBC4, 9pm);
A Time Team Special: The Lost Dock Of
Liverpool (C4, 9pm)
THE master masons who built York Minster
could've had no idea that one day their toilet
habits would be exposed to the nation. |
| Shark’s skin | | 9:54am Friday 18th April 2008 | | Shark (five, 10pm); A Place In The Sun: Home And Away (C4, 8pm); The Big Bang Theory (C4, 11.55pm)
AS soon as LA prosecutor Sebastian
Stark refers to a delay in a court
case as "a temporary setback -
we've got nothing to worry
about", you know that he's going
to get something to worry about. |
| Dog-eared | | 9:19am Thursday 17th April 2008 | | Inside The Medieval Mind (BBC4, 9pm);
House (five, 9pm);
Come Dine With Me (C4, 8pm); DON'T moan the next time
you're fined for failing to return
your library book on time. |
| Dead good | | 10:27am Tuesday 15th April 2008 | | Waking The Dead (BBC1, 9pm); Age Of Terror (BBC2, 9pm)
AFTER last night's opener, you'll
be as confused as me as to who's
doing what and to whom in
Waking The Dead. The key images
repeated over and over
again are flashbacks to a
gagged woman hanging from chains in a container
in a railway siding. Whenever you're
in danger of dropping off, the director gives
a quick flash of the unsettling sight to jolt you
back into life. |
| Press call | | 10:16am Monday 14th April 2008 | | Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press
(BBC4, 9pm); Extraordinary People: Half Man, Half
Tree (five, 9pm); Quest for the Lost Ark (C4, 9pm)
THE original title of Stephen Fry
And The Gutenberg Press was
The Machine That Made Us. Attaching
a celebrity to the programme
was presumably a bid to
make it more enticing to viewers. |
| Family values | | 10:32am Friday 11th April 2008 | | My Family (BBC1, 9pm); Unreported World (C4, 7.35pm)
DON'T be in any doubt. I have
tried, believe me I've tried, to
like My Family. Series eight begins
tonight so I've given it another
go, especially as the
Radio Times previewer hints
that it's saucier than before. |
| Abbey habits | | 9:59am Thursday 10th April 2008 | | In Search Of Medieval Britain
(BBC4, 7.30pm);
Chinese School (BBC4, 10pm) THIS is a tale of monks going commando
and a tightrope walker
falling to his death at Durham
Cathedral. |
| Talking dirty | | 9:55am Tuesday 8th April 2008 | |
Jaguar Adventure With Nigel Marven
(five, 7.30pm);
Massacre At Virginia Tech: This World
(BBC2, 9pm);
How To Look Good Naked (C4, 8pm) FIRST things first: Nigel Marven
doesn't actually see any jaguars
in the opening episode of his
wildlife encounters in a "monster
swamp bursting with a diversity
of weird and wonderful animals". |
| The fears of a clown | | 10:23am Monday 7th April 2008 | | Clowns (BBC2, 9pm); Young Mums' Mansion (BBC3, 9pm)
A MAN is standing on the pavement by his
parked car, getting dressed for work. He goes
through his preparations: "Clean shirt, clean
trousers, sort out some balloons, check my
balloom pump, lipstick, false glasses, clean
hat, clean wig". |
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