UK TV

In the UK: Sunday, ITV1, 1st October 2006

In the US: Airing as “Cracker: A New Terror”, October 30th, BBC America

Yes, I know it was on Sunday, but I only watched it last night.

I wasn’t much of a fan of Cracker. It all seemed a bit too forced and unlikely. But I was actually really impressed by Sunday’s one-off special. Maybe that’s because Fitz didn’t have much to do and other characters got more of a look-in.

Read no further Americans, unless you want to spoil yourself.

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In the UK: Fridays, 9pm, BBC2. Repeated Saturdays, 6.40pm on BBC2.

In the US: National Geographic at some point

God, I’m getting old. Friday night and what am I doing? Watching a nature documentary. Sigh.

That’s not to say it wasn’t a very good documentary. Even if it weren’t about the Galapagos Islands, which I’ve be curious about for ages (even before Master and Commander whet my appetite even further), I’d have probably tuned in just to watch. It’s like The Blue Planet: you’ve just got to, haven’t you?

Still, and I suspect this was the real point of it, it made me wish I’d got high def TV.

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In the UK: Thursdays, BBC2, 9pm

In the US: Season 1 being repeated on HBO. No word on Season 2.

The ultimate test of any comedy is whether it makes you laugh. On those grounds, series two of Extras is an occasional success: when it makes you laugh, it makes you laugh hard. The rest of the time, it’s either not very good or slightly distasteful.

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