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Posted on June 12, 2009 | 5 comments |
In the UK: Thursdays, 10pm, BBC2
They're back. The ubiquitous Robert Webb and David Mitchell are back! Of course, being ubiquitous, it's not like they seem to have gone away, of course, but here they are, back again, with a new series of That Mitchell and Webb Look, which is - equally, of course - based on their radio show That Mitchell and Webb Sound.
When people say ubiquitous, they generally mean that in a bad way. But having Robert Webb and David Mitchell on just about every TV and radio programme on every TV channel imaginable - whether it's talking about poetry, dancing on Comic Relief, acting on Peep Show, appearing on game show panels or featuring in ads - is actually a good thing. Because they are very, very funny.
Most of the time.
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Posted on March 26, 2009 | Post a comment |
In the UK: Wednesdays, 9pm, BBC1
Huh. That's weird.
Normally, it's very easy to burble on about the hate-inducing business slime that puts itself forward to be Sir Alan Sugar's newest puppet in The Apprentice. Well, that's how they appear at first - by the end of the series, you get to quite like some of them.
This year seems different somehow. Okay, there was the requisite bigging-up by everyone at the producers' request at the start, with the usual "there's no joy in taking part, just winning" spiel being spewed out by all and sundry as though they'd had a 100cc injection of pure evil into their veins.
But if you overlooked all that, there was no one truly objectionable. Everyone seems a bit dull. I kind of liked American woman, even if she did seem to say the bleeding obvious a lot; trainee stockbroker was a little annoying; Mona moaned a lot; Phil the geordie seems to be stuck on 'negative' the whole time.
Where's the hate, I ask you?
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Posted on March 18, 2009 | 1 comment |
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Posted on March 12, 2009 | 3 comments |
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Posted on February 23, 2009 | 1 comment |
Today's Joanna Page should have been This Year's Love. But since she's not in the cast list at the end, I'm guessing it's something of a cameo appearance by Ms Page in said movie, so I'm actually going to have to sit through the whole film - Dougie Henshall's kilt and all - to find out which five frames she's in or whether she's simply sitting on a cutting room floor somewhere. Apparently Richard Armitage plays "Smug man at party" in it, so there's a double whammy for you.
So in the meantime, here's a picture of her with Ruth Jones from the Comic Relief launch earlier this month. She's going to be one of the Celebrity Apprentices, you know. And here's a chat with her courtesy of Holy Moly. It's quiet brief, but it is revealed that Tom Jones doesn't know what a chocolate orange is.
Posted on February 9, 2009 | 1 comment |
It's a bit of a Gavin & Stacey Comic Relief this year. There's going to be a Gavin & Stacey sketch (possibly with lots of famous cameos); Joanna Page is going to be one of the celebrity Apprentices; and most importantly, the Comic Relief song this year is 'Islands in the Stream', as sung by Ruth Jones and Rob Brydon as Nessa and Bryn, with Sir Tom Jones.
The video's not out until next month, but there was a reasonable snippet of it on Jonathan Ross on Friday. Here it is, at roughly 4m05s in, or you should (fingers crossed) be able to go straight to it on the YouTube site by clicking here.
Posted on August 26, 2008 | 4 comments |
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