Review: Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, BBC1

3:32pm Friday 3rd July 2009

THERE’S a lot of TV at the moment that's supposed to be funny – Alan Carr’s Chatty Man, and That Mitchell and Webb Look, to name just two.

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Review: Coach Trip, Channel 4

5:10pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009

THIS week I have been mostly watching C4's Coach Trip. It’s not a new show, but for some reason it had not been on my radar until now.

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Review: Big Brother, Channel 4

10:40am Friday 12th June 2009

THE lengths people will go to just to have their 15 minutes of fame really is shocking.

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Review: Calendar Girls 10 Years On, BBC1

10:47am Thursday 11th June 2009

Calendar Girls 10 Years On, BBC1, Thursday 9pm A DECADE ago the normally sleepy Yorkshire Dales village of Rylstone was suddenly swarming with press. Not because anything particularly untoward had happened, unless you count 11 middle-aged members of the local Women’s Institute doffing off for a calendar, that is.

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Review: My Life In Verse: Robert Webb, BBC2

10:47am Thursday 11th June 2009

THE half of Mitchell and Webb that isn’t Mitchell is obviously looking to spread his TV wings beyond comedy and shows plenty of promise in this programme in which he traces the story behind TS Eliot’s The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock.

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Pick of the week

3:15pm Thursday 4th June 2009

Robin Hood (Saturday, BBC One, 6.45pm) Saturday nights were simply no fun before Robin Hood and his merry men started warring with no end of baddies in Sherwood Forest.

The secret to slimming, it's not rocket science

3:15pm Thursday 4th June 2009

10 Things You Need To Know About Losing Weight, BBC1, Wednesday 8pm LOSING weight basically comes down to eating less — not wolfing down endless packets of crisps or takeaways — and doing some exercise. End of. Except it’s not.

Review: Coronation Street, ITV1

12:26pm Friday 29th May 2009

IF there’s one thing that annoys me most about long-running soaps it’s their failure to maintain continuity.

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UEFA Cup Final, ITV4, Wednesday, 7pm

5:47pm Thursday 28th May 2009

UEFA Cup Final, ITV4, Wednesday, 7pm I FOCUS on this not because I want to review a football match — there would be no point, it’s either good or bad – but to mention the commentary.Football commentators come in for a lot of criticism, mostly for managing to further ruin already boring games by adding their dull witterings to the generally pointless equation.

Review: 10 Things You Need To Know About Losing Weight, BBC1

1:35pm Thursday 28th May 2009

MEN - don’t be alarmed if your wives and girlfriends gain a sudden obsession with soup.

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