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1. Sayle it isn’t so
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 18 June 2008Liverpudlian Alexei Sayle has always been fiercely proud of his home city – and his new series, Alexei Sayle’s Liverpool, explores the history of the famous old metropolis.
2. Punishments make great entertainment
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 11 June 2008I know that Big Brother’s started again this week – unbelievably, it’s the ninth series and the premise is wearing thinner than the average pop group – but there’s plenty of decent TV around if you’re keen to avoid Channel 4’s collection of attention-seeking folk cooped up in a house for a few months.
3. Where’s the talent?
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 4 June 2008Saturday night saw one of the biggest TV showdowns of the year: Andrew Lloyd Webber versus Simon Cowell, as the live finals of musical reality show I’d Do Anything and variety contest Britain’s Got Talent went head-to-head in the ratings.
4. Presenters a tad hard to swallow
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 28 May 2008Giles Coren and Sue Perkins, after fattening up in Edwardian Supersize Me, have taken to slimming down with a unique new diet – rationing, World War II style.
5. Mears certainly beats the Bear
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 28 May 2008After the abomination that was Bear Grylls last week, I was truly relieved to see that Ray Mears has just stormed back on to our screens with a new show.
6. Bear Grylls: born big head
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 21 May 2008I get the impression that the ludicrously-named Bear Grylls is a man who takes himself far more seriously than anyone else does.
7. Feline a bit cheated
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 14 May 2008Derren Brown has long been a master of filling TV shows with the flimsiest of clichés – and the latest episode of Trick or Treat, his mind-bending journey through the human psyche, was business as usual.
8. Come Dine With Me
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 7 May 2008Changing CDWM into a one-hour show hasn’t really worked.
As a devotee from the beginning, the joy of watching the contestants in this dinner party competition is the fact they are given enough rope to hang themselves.
9. Midsomer Murders
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 7 May 2008The haphazard scheduling of Midsomer Murders as well as its high repeat count, means it’s often only to easy to miss a new one.
10. Invisibles? They may as well be
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 7 May 2008New BBC comedy-drama The Invisibles follows a well-worn premise: a pair of old criminals – and masters of their art – promise to retire but, regretfully, are drawn together for one last job that’ll break the bank.