Operation Winkle

So, blog favourite Strictly Come Dancing is back, but as someone whose enjoyment of daring routines is tempered by the desire to avoid all potential for car-crash telly (I always left the room when Fiona Phillips took to the floor last year), I find myself in my usual mixed state of enthrallment and discomfort when it transmits. Read more

Petrolhead Purgatory: A counterblast

Friend of OTT Ian Sparham has contributed this fantasically well constructed counterblast to Paul Stump’s Top Gear demolition which is currently gracing the front page of the site.  Read more

Stunted growth

Two years ago, Arrested Development arrived on British screens to a blaze of publicity telling us this was the best sitcom to come from America for years. The scheduling matched this, with a 10pm slot on BBC2 and the next episode straight after on BBC4. Now we’re in the middle of the third and final series, and when did BBC2 screen the latest edition? At 1am on Monday morning. Read more

“Shit haircuts and terrible jumpers”

Following on from Stuart’s This Life musing, in April, Jack Davenport was promoting his role in the two-part ITV1 dramaThe Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant. Inevitably, he was asked about the reunion. At that stage, the whole notion was very much up in the air… Read more

More Miles to go

It had been rumoured as early as last year, but now the BBC have released information about plans for a 10 year reunion episode of Amy Jenkins’ This Life - although little has been said other than the whole original cast will be returning and some plot details: Read more

TMi

Saturday mornings have always had a unique place in the history of children’s television. Read more

Turn Back Time

“And now for something completely different”, that familiar phrase from Monty Python’s Flying Circus would not have been the first thing to spring to viewers’ minds as they tuned in to watch ex-Python Terry Jones discuss his career in BBC2′s new offering, Turn Back Time. Read more

Top of the Pops

I can’t remember the first time I watched Top of the Pops. I can’t have been any older than about three or four, because one of my earliest memories is of mounting my own episodes with my sister. Read more

Top of the Pops pops off

It has just been announced on the radio that Top of the Pops has finally been axed by the BBC. Read more

Saxondale

It’s good to see Steve Coogan back starring in a BBC2 sitcom. His intermittent forays into Hollywood have hardly propelled him into the A-list of stardom (Around the World in 80 Days anybody?) Read more

Top Gear

Do you know anything about cars? I don’t. Read more

The Apprentice

[NB: Ben Stanberry was the first of this year's apprentices to be dispatched by Sir Alan Sugar.] Read more

The Apprentice

To use Sugar parlance, we’re into the “burn down” now. Read more

The Apprentice

Being perhaps the last person in the country to have cottoned on to The Apprentice and only ever having watched two episodes previously, it is with a sense of curious detachment that I find myself being drawn to this evening’s edition. Read more

The Apprentice

In a quiet episode, it was apt that it was the quiet man who finally got the chop. Read more

The Apprentice

So here we are – another week of watching the unhirable being vetted by the undesirable. Read more

The Apprentice

“It’s cold up there,” whispers Lindsay Duncan in GBH when tartly reminding her father of his lofty position in British society. “So cold.” Read more

The Apprentice

It’s the reality show for people who don’t like, even expressly detest, reality shows. Read more

Louis Louis: Slight return

Well, it’s more than a slight return. It’s an actual return. Read more

The Apprentice

Part reality-TV car crash, part Big Boy’s Book of Business, The Apprentice is a television show many people end up loving without really understanding why. Read more

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