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The Best...screen dog
- Posted at 10:13am
- 05 January 2007
- by DavidWhitehouse-RT
The humble TV hound is such a mainstay of popular culture that it should have its own category at Crufts.
Some become equally as famous as their human co-stars - proof positive that a willingness to lick their own crotch and drag their backside across the lawn on camera is no hindrance to a successful TV career.
Those who wish, as we are here, to impose some level of hierarchy on the TV dog are spoilt for choice when it comes to contenders for "The Best?" crown. There's Duke, Boycie's Great Dane in Only Fools and...
The Best...theme tune
- Posted at 10:13am
- 12 October 2006
- by DavidWhitehouse-RT
For a time in the late 70s and early 80s, whoever was in charge of the music used for the BBC's sports coverage hit an immense run of form.
In fact, given that his competition consisted largely of a loft-insulation-headed Jimmy Savile and a pre-fame Pete Waterman, he may well have been the best DJ in the country.
For whoever he was, and for the sake of argument let's call him God, he's responsible for not only most of televisual history's great theme tunes, but also history's greatest - that of the BBC's snooker coverage.
This...
The Best...Apprentice
- Posted at 11:22am
- 11 October 2006
- by DavidCrawford-RT
I don't understand schedulers. You have a hit with a business reality show, which after two series proves so popular that it escapes the ghetto of BBC2 for the bright lights and ratings goldmine of BBC1. What's more, you also have the rights to the original American version.
So why put the American version of The Apprentice, which to my mind is the better of the two, on at close to midnight twice a week? It's no wonder I'm turning up to work like a bleary-eyed zombie on Thursday and Friday mornings.
"Hang on a minute," I hear...
The Best...TV chef
- Posted at 1:13pm
- 06 October 2006
- by RhodriMarsden-RT
It seems remarkably easy to become a celebrity chef these days.
We seem to have an insatiable appetite for their winning smiles and briskly constructed dishes, and the qualifications needed to become one are getting much easier to achieve:
* An over-reliance on the word "literally" (as in "I'm literally going to put this hake in the oven", or "all you have to do is literally get the bowl out of the cupboard")
* A tendency to describe foodstuffs as having been "caramelised" when what they actually mean is that they've been "fried"
* A mastery...
The Best...medical drama
- Posted at 1:13pm
- 04 October 2006
- by DavidBrown-RT
After 12 years of watching ER, I still have no idea what a "C-spine, chem 7, CBC, chest film and blood gas" is, but it sure as hell makes me feel like I'm eavesdropping on the way things work in a city-centre American A&E.
No other medical show has taken such a risk with its audience as ER. Despite the soap opera ethics, scenes of wholesale slaughter and moral dilemmas, its intense medical realism means that only a small percentage of the audience is likely to understand exactly what's going on. So what makes it so highly addictive?
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