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Could this year's Strictly be any more controversial? For a show about dancing, sequins and sometimes inexplicable scoring, it's had more than its fair share of incidents. All of last week's Strictly action Has this year's Strictly Come Dancing been set on a path pointed straight to doom? ...
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Jedward have gone. So can the combined forces of Olly, Stacey, Joe, Danyl, Lloyd, and Dannii's hair provide a whole evening of X Factor entertainment? All of last week's X Factor action In the battle between Olly and the twins there was only ever going to be one winner. And one person who ...
Reality
The X Factor
Edward Norton
All the TV news that isn't quite fit to print Vroom! Screech! Bang! Helloooo, officer. Jeremy Clarkson reveals on tonight's edition of the Jonathan Ross show that he was breathalysed by police after "a small crash" while filming Top Gear last week. He was cleared. Remarkably, he insists that ...
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Kelly Clarkson
Jeremy Davies
Joanna Lumley
Crash
Steve Busfield reports from a conference exploring US TV series The Wire as social-science fiction How many sociologists does it take to change a lightbulb? Five. One to change the lightbulb and four to examine The Wire. Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson believes that The Wire has ...
Drama
The Wire
What will The X Factor winner's single be? The likely ballad is a song so bland it could fit the mood for almost any TV show With The X Factor final a little over a fortnight away, thoughts have naturally started to turn to the winner's song. Usually it'd be a soppy, vaguely aspirational ...
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The X Factor
When David Simon's groundbreaking series becomes a subject of academic study, even the question of whether it's a TV show is up for discussion So is The Wire a cop show, part of a totally new genre or not even a TV programme at all? At the Wire as Social Science Fiction? conference in Leeds, ...
Drama
The Wire
David Simon
Listen again to a mixture of music and chat on 6Music, a classical treat, a lecture on Mary Woolstonecraft and the swansong of Archers stalwart Norman Painting Guy Garvey's Finest Hour (Sunday, 6Music) is always a pleasure; a fine combination of good music and companionable chat. "Debonair and ...
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Jasmine Guy
Daily Star rolls out red carpet for X Factor's John and Edward Daily Star editor Dawn Neesom appears to have fallen hook, line and sinker for The X Factor twins John and Edward Grimes. The twins visited the tabloid's offices yesterday as part of their publicity blitzkrieg. The Star was moved ...
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The X Factor
The Misfits dig up the bodies, Simon works on his invisibility, Kelly deals with a face from her past – and we see what Alisha thinks of her power over men Spoiler alert: This weekly blog is for those who have been watching Misfits - don't read ahead if you haven't seen episode three yet ...
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Gavin is feeling homesick in Cardiff as the clan get set to reunite for the christening of baby Neil Warning – the following contains more spoilers than a pimped out Ford Escort. If you haven't seen episode one yet, don't read any further. Gavin & Stacey is back, hurrah! And it's Gavin's ...
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And then there were three … But which couple will be leaving the Restaurant tonight? And has this series lived up to expectations? Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, shatter someone's dream, twinkle twinkle. Life must be crazy for Raymond Blanc , going round being charming and Gallic, then "ow do you ...
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A plot too far and too much action at the expense of a better insight into Lucas's past Vicky Frost's episode three blog Spoiler alert: This weekly blog is for those who have been watching Spooks series eight. This week it contains a major spoiler – don't read ahead if you haven't seen ...
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Spooks
There's now a new focus on team captains and the guest hosts have been good but do you still miss Amstell's catty wit? When host Simon Amstell left Never Mind the Buzzcocks to kickstart his stand-up career and write new sitcom Grandma's House , many fans of the show felt Amstell's catty wit ...
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Simon Cowell
Made
The third and final series returns to find the titular characters living in Barry and Nessa deciding whether to marry Dave Coaches or not Gavin & Stacey is back tomorrow for a third series – and it has a lot to live up to. What started out as a little BBC3 comedy series about a south Wales ...
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Pam Grier
Times like these see Cumbria's local station come into its own The floods in Cumbria and their aftermath may soon slip from the headlines, but not so on BBC Radio Cumbria where the story dominates the Mike Parr Breakfast Show . On Monday, Parr broadcast from a car park in Cockermouth, and ...
News/Talk
Breakfast
Mike Judge
The young couple start a new life in Barry in the third series of the BBC comedy. Here are the reasons why you should too Three years ago I, like Gavin, relocated from south-east England to south Wales. There are big differences – I'm not a character in a comedy series, and don't live in Barry ...
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Simon Cowell already rules the charts. Now ITV seems to be choosing its chatshow hosts from his judges For proof of Simon Cowell's stranglehold on music, you only need to look at the top 10 – it currently includes the 2009 X Factor finalists, two former X Factor contestants, an X Factor ...
Reality
The X Factor
Simon Cowell
It's an old-fashioned sitcom starring a desperate 30-something woman. But I can't stop laughing at Miranda Miranda Hart's BBC2 sitcom has all the elements that would normally make me squirm: the desperate singleton with a massive crush on her mate from two doors down; the vast amount of ...
Comedy
Plot developments? Who needs plot developments when your scriptwriters could be making another handbrake turn? Read Anna on episode eight SPOILER ALERT: This weekly blog is for those who have been watching FlashForward. Don't read ahead if you haven't seen episode nine yet. "Believe" In ...
Sci-Fi
Flash Forward
The Nine
SPOILER ALERT: This weekly blog is for those who have already seen The Wire in its entirety . This week: Prezbo gets a shock, and Omar goes out for Cheerios The Wire: the book The Wire Re-up: The Guardian's Guide to the Greatest TV Show Ever Made is available for pre-ordering now from Guardian ...
