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September 2007 Archives

Oh look, it's the new Spooks

Posted by Remote Control on September 27, 2007 12:58 AM

Beware programmes which people proclaim is 'The new.....' It's a lazy, sloppy way of explaining to someone what a programme is going to be like, and often leads to disappointment.

It's also, I suspect, marginally offensive for the programme makers, who, I'd assume, don't actually set out to make 'the new' anything.


Heroes: Trying to get back in

Posted by Remote Control on September 26, 2007 5:44 AM

HOLIDAYS are great for many reasons - but from a telly point of view, it throws up a real puzzler. How the bloody hell to do you get back into a TV programme once you've missed two episodes?

Second comings in soaps are rarely worth the hype

Posted by Remote Control on September 25, 2007 9:37 AM

If there's one rule in life which every soap actor should never break, it's this: Never Go Back. Why? Because it's never as good the second time.

Of course, there are notable exceptions, but other than Dot Cotton in Eastenders and Harold Bishop in Neighbours, I'm struggling to think of any. The most amusing comeback was in Home and Away when Ailsa Fletcher, who had died several months previously, returned as a ghost in husband Alf's mind.

Little bit about Stuart (BBC 2 tonight, with video clip)

Posted by Remote Control on September 23, 2007 12:43 AM

IT'S perhaps just as well I'm only just back from holiday, because, any sooner and I'd have had to have my say on Elton John: Me, Myself and I (ITV 1, 9.40pm last night).

Time to let the batteries recharge

Posted by me on September 12, 2007 9:44 AM

The remote control is having 8 days off to recharge the batteries - but will be back on September 21 to start picking through the schedules again

Silent Witness rules (and rather like CSI too)

Posted by Remote Control on September 10, 2007 12:55 AM

A TRIPLE whammy of good programmes from the BBC tonight - tragically, though, all at 9pm.

One on BBC 1, one on BBC 3 and one on BBC 4. The latter two stations being what they are (ie very fond of repeating their good shows), the choice of which one to watch becomes somewhat easier - especially as the one on BBC 1 is the first of a two parter, finishing tomorrow.

Time to party like Abigail

Posted by Remote Control on September 9, 2007 3:53 PM


I've never really got Abigail's Party. I laughed at the jokes, and got what it was on about, but what I didn't get was its significance. Certainly, I never really grasped why it was on my A-level course in English Literature.

A gorilla, Phil Collins and a drum kit

Posted by Remote Control on September 9, 2007 3:41 PM

I've just witnessed one of those 'everything stops' moments.

You know the ones - where something happens and everyone stops and stares.

It involves a gorilla, Phil Collins and a drum kit. It's the best ad on telly at the moment. Enjoy.

Out of the frying pan (Saturday's telly choice)

Posted by Remote Control on September 8, 2007 4:22 PM

I was rather enjoying The Restaurant (on BBC 2), the programme in which a gaggle of couples compete to convince Raymond Blanc that they are the ones he should be opening a new eaterie with.

But then Hell's Kitchen returned to ITV 1 for a 15-night run, and with the charasmatic Marco Pierre White at the helm, in terms of entertainment factor, the one aimed at the mass market wins hands down.

Who thinks traffic cops make good telly?

Posted by Remote Control on September 5, 2007 2:44 PM

Imagine you're the head of programming at BBC 1 and you're toying with what to fill the prime time 9pm slot with tonight. It's the big one. It's the reason that the news was shuffled to 10pm. A chance to show what the BBC can do. Great programming at its best and all that.

So how did Traffic Cops 2007 end up on at this time? Quote: "Jamie Theakston narrates the documentary following traffic police as they deal with jobs as varied as coralling escaped horses and saving the lives of riders of dangerous scooters."

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