Tag Archives: Strictly Come Dancing

Couch Potato column – Saturday, 22 December

November 29, 2012, 5.58am, a random ITV newscaster: “Now here’s the red-top tabloids with, frankly, non-stories from the Australian jungle on their front pages, about I’m A Celebrity.” December 19, 2012, 1.48pm, ITV newscaster Geraint Vincent: “A swimmer in Australia … Continue reading

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Couch Potato column – Saturday, 27 October

In the present climate, after last Saturday’s hour-long, hit-and-miss The Thick Of It inquiry special on BBC2, is anyone else now expecting a rival BBC1 programme to launch an inquiry into how the inquiry was conducted? ================= There’s a big … Continue reading

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Couch Potato column – Saturday, 13 October

Poor old Lisa Riley, I thought. There she was, last Saturday night, bemoaning the fact she’s become typecast playing “mingers” (a mystery, for sure), only to end up at the BBC ballroom in what looked unmistakably like the Ann Widdecombe … Continue reading

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The X Factor: An obituary (and other stuff). Couch Potato column – Saturday, 22 September

X Factor, the ITV1 reality television talent show, has died. It was nine years old. The programme had been battling a long illness, chronic fatigue since 2010, and drew its last breath at the end of the series’ auditions last … Continue reading

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Christmas TV review

Christmas Day. A time for giving, for celebrating the birth of Cliff Richard, and the annual worship of a hapless inventor made of Plasticine and his loyal Aardman dog. Most of all, though, it’s a time for the family to … Continue reading

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Adam Postans’ weekly Couch Potato column – Friday, 25 November

BBC1’s Young Apprentice candidates were directing youth-oriented TV adverts on Monday, making teenagers do ridiculous things you’d never see in the real world. Which reminds me, EastEnders was on every day this week. =========================================================  My verdict on Strictly Come Dancing’s … Continue reading

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Adam Postans’ Couch Potato column – Friday, 18 November

My assessment of BBC2’s fluffy new overacted 1960s-set airline drama. Pan Am-dram. ===================================================== BBC1 Young Apprentice candidate James McCullagh: “People always tell me I’m 17 going on 67.” Which is fine. Unless the person telling you is a police officer … Continue reading

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Adam Postans’ Couch Potato column – Saturday, 5 November

Channel 4’s The Food Hospital examines the science behind using food as medicine and its remarkable healing properties, with episode one featuring a woman with extreme Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and a seven-year-old migraine sufferer. But it’s nothing new. Eamonn Holmes … Continue reading

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Adam Postans’ Weekly Column – Saturday, 15 October

Gwen to Gaius on BBC1’s Merlin: “Lord Agravaine wishes to see me later. I think he means to seek my counsel.” Please, not before the watershed. ===========================================================  BBC1’s Hidden. The plot, to be specific. =========================================================== Quiz time. Name this ITV1 … Continue reading

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Adam Postans’ weekly TV column – Saturday, 8 October

So, The Doctor didn’t die after all in Saturday’s Doctor Who finale, it was just a robot pretending to be him. Isn’t that a relief/utter waste of nine-and-three-quarter hours I’ll never get back*. *delete as appropriate. =========================================================  Big Brother update. … Continue reading

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