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Live Roulette
- Posted at 11:59am
- 10 September 2007
- by RhodriMarsden-RT
My own painstakingly researched data reveals that 90 per cent of wear and tear on my remote control is sustained between 11:00pm and 2:00am. Channel-hop as I might, reliable post-pub entertainment is tough to find. I've lost my initial fascination with those shows that basically ask you to "phone this number and guess what I'm thinking", while the BBC Learning Zone is as enticing as a nightclub with no clientele save for a bloke lecturing on Hispanic architecture. Riding to the rescue, however, is Live Roulette.
The daytime trailer promises that I can play roulette in...
Help! I Smell of Fish
- Posted at 11:11am
- 07 September 2007
- by RhodriMarsden-RT
If BBC3's strategy is to boost viewing figures by giving their programmes preposterous titles that promise something akin to a 21st century freak show, they're doing a grand job. Alongside Help Me Anthea, I'm Infested, Dog Borstal and My Penis and Everyone Else's, we have Help! I Smell of Fish, a documentary studying three sufferers of so-called fish odour syndrome. They could have called the show "trimethylaminuria" – the medical term for the condition – but if they had, I probably wouldn't have bothered watching it. Clever folk, these TV producers.
"What's it like to be...
Vinappris
- Posted at 10:55am
- 06 September 2007
- by RhodriMarsden-RT
Glossy lifestyle magazines and foodie TV shows might suggest otherwise, but the British still have a dysfunctional relationship with wine. I recently heard an English actress describe how she "adores drinking wine". This was intended to sound sophisticated, but it actually conjured up an image of her necking mugs of corked Lambrusco.
Anyway, while most of us enjoy the odd glass - and raise our eyebrows in pleasant surprise when we think it tastes above average - choosing a bottle presents problems. Our ignorance has been genetically refined over centuries, and even though we shell out for...
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
- Posted at 10:52am
- 05 September 2007
- by RhodriMarsden-RT
If you're the kind of person who giggles all the way through The Elephant Man and chucks popcorn at the screen at the climax of Brief Encounter, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition will probably have you clutching at the furniture in mirth, you heartless brute.
For those unfamiliar with the premise, a family that has encountered some kind of severe hardship – be it multiple deaths, chronic illness or financial catastrophe – are "surprised" early one morning by a small team of builders and designers, who send them on a week-long holiday while they demolish their house and...
How It's Made
- Posted at 1:55pm
- 04 September 2007
- by RhodriMarsden-RT
I've never really wondered how pizzas end up in the freezer of my local convenience store. All I care about is that a) they'll get hotter when they're shoved in the oven, and b) I can kid myself that I'm preparing a healthy Italian meal rather than some waistband-straining carnival of cheese. But despite my disinterest in their manufacture, the Discovery Channel is going to tell me anyway.
How It's Made is a French-Canadian show, dubbed into various languages for local re-broadcast. In the UK we get the dulcet tones of Tony Hirst. He's better known...
Street Crime UK
- Posted at 11:20am
- 03 September 2007
- by RhodriMarsden-RT
It's odd, isn't it, that Big Brother is referred to as reality television. I don't know what constitutes reality in your home, but it's been a while since I dressed up as Little Bo Peep and tried to glue pieces of sweetcorn back on the cob.
No, what I need after three months of surreal antics on Channel 4 is something stark, something grim, something that will remind me not to skip gaily around the centre of Cardiff singing "I'm a Little Teapot" when the pubs are closing. And Street Crime UK provides a pretty effective reminder....
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