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To mock or not to mock? That's a bit of a question... (with video)

Posted by Remote Control on July 26, 2007 9:14 AM | 

IT'S a tough call. Much as I want to stick it out with
True Dare Kiss (BBC 1m 9pm) it's getting harder to as the weeks go by.

As dramas go, it is excellent. Sneaky, feuding, head-strong sisters and an eyeliner-wearing brother all battling it out with a dark secret in the background.

Tonight is episode five out of six, so that's four hours I've put into it so far.

But then there is Mock the Week, (BBC2, 10pm) which is now into its third week of the third series.

In my honest opinion, it has to be one of the best programmes on television - as hopefully the clip above proves.

Unlike other panel shows, it is designed just to create the environment for the jokes, rather than practically scripting them for the comedians, and Dara O'Briain is the ideal host.

So what to do? I'm tempted to dip into the last half hour of the drama, after all, it's taken five weeks for them to just sell a house - and all the drama always happens in the last half hour, doesn't it? Doesn't it?

Also tonight:

Grub's Up (ITV 1, 7.30pm): Simon Rimmer is emerging as one of the most engaging celebrity chefs on telly. He is one of the stars of Sunday magazine programme Something for the Weekend, but this regional cooking programme allows Simon to get more of his personality over. Basically, he goes round the north west looking at our food hertiage. Tonight he fishes off the Blackpool coastline and gives a show hen a makeover?!?

Dragon's Den: Where are they Now (BBC 2, 8pm): Engaging off-shoot of the main Dragons programme, where the Dragons give their opinions on successful and failed constestents, and are sometimes surprised at the results.

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Comments (4)

Lizz wrote...

I'm totally in agreement about Mock the Week (here via the BBC website, which quotes your citation of MtW as "one of the best programmes on television"), though I have to tell you the current series is not the third but the fifth.

Posted by: Lizz  | July 26, 2007 6:44 PM

remote wrote...

Hi

Thanks for the correction on the series - I really got into it too late!

Posted by: remote  | July 26, 2007 9:44 PM

Colin McGoran wrote...

Great prog Mock the Week. Frankie Boyle good comedian, lets himself and his country down by his cheap shots towards it. Just like a certain Mr Connelly, a bit of a TOSSER. I'm sure, that with a bit more application, he could improve the quality of his material. C'mon son, try and not pander to the south, be your self. GOOD LUCK. Colin

Posted by: Colin McGoran  | July 26, 2007 10:02 PM

Dexter St. Clair wrote...

Colin

you sound even older than Billy Connelly and a lot less funny. Scottish comedians have been sending up the image of Scots and Scotland since long before Harry lauder. Do you remember him.

Here's a wee Frankie Boyle observation without reference to Scotland.

“There’s all this talk about gay marriage,� “I don’t know what all the fuss is about. I’d have loved a gay dad. You know, the kids in the playground: ‘My dad’s gonna batter your dad.’ ‘Oh yeah? Well, my dad’s gonna shag your dad! And your dad’s gonna like it!’�

Good luck Colin ad get over it.

Posted by: Dexter St. Clair  | August 18, 2007 5:06 PM

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