Doctor Who
Film
British TV
US TV
Doctor Who
Film
British TV
US TV
Doctor Who
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Theatre
British TV
US TV
In the UK: Fridays, 9pm, BBC1
Ruddy hell! It’s not Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul. It’s just Harry and Paul now. How confusing. Were you confused by the original title? Me neither. Maybe it was just too long for the Sky EPG.
Anyway, they’re back: Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, former young Turks of comedy, are once again on primetime BBC1, shoring up old comedy and helping to showcase new talent.
But as always, the question is, are they funny?
In the US: Wednesdays, 10pm, FX
FX has backed itself into something of a corner. With a reputation for being a manly channel for manly men who like programmes about even manlier men, pretty much everything they do now has to fit this remit.
I imagine that much like a war of escalation, each new FX show’s going to have be manlier than the previous ones. There’s going to come up a point where it commissions a show about ex-marine lumberjack bodybuilders on steroids who have John Woo shoot-outs and punch-ups during bank heists, before returning home to drink 17 kegs of beer each in front of cable porn – all without saying more than five, four-letter words each.
Sons of Anarchy isn’t that show, but it’s the closest yet. Set in a fake motorcycle gang chapter in California, it traces the fortunes of a family of bikers who are involved in guns, drugs, murder, robbery, and book-writing. Really.
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