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1. Is The IT Crowd too complacent?
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 26 November 2008Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd has gained plenty of fans over its first couple of series – especially those who can sympathise with the much-despised and oft-maligned IT employees the program focuses on – Maurice Moss, Irish engineer Roy and technically ignorant Jen.
2. Survivors - Gripping drama on BBC 1
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 26 November 2008Survivors is a remake of a hit show of the same name from the mid-70s that followed a group of people who survive an accidentally-released plague.
3. A moving account of pal’s suicide
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 12 November 2008It must be documentary season for washed-up politicians.
4. Sellers are so dull
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 12 November 2008ITV has proven itself to be good at copying things. Strictly Come Dancing became such a huge hit that Dancing on Ice suddenly appeared, and the popularity of Doctor Who, I’m sure, had no bearing at all on Primeval hitting our screens.
5. A farce over class with John Prescott
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 5 November 2008John Prescott has always been a polarising figure during his time in politics, but his latest venture seems a little unusual.
6. Talent show spoof really hits the spot
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 15 October 2008Reality shows can be tiring. There’s X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, Strictly Come Dancing and more – and then, when one finishes, another begins almost immediately.
7. Fry’s American journey is sure to enlighten us
Get Bracknell, Wednesday 15 October 2008Plenty of people have visited America for the odd holiday, but national treasure Stephen Fry has undertaken a somewhat bigger journey – to travel across the US of A and visit every single state along the way in a bid to learn more about the country.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.