July 2017

The Crystal Maze: Celebrity Special

July 10, 2017 - 10:11

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By Square Eyes @keithbrockEFC

Back when my son was a wee sprog, he had three favourite tv shows. Thomas The Tank Engine (possibly Ringo Starr's only decent contribution to society, post-Beatles); Countdown (more because of an inappropriate crush on Carol Vorderman than any desire to make words out of a random set of letters) and The Crystal Maze. So enamoured of the Richard O'Brien-helmed game show was he, that he insisted I record every episode on our VCR (ask your parents!) so he could watch them over and over. And over. And over.

The weekend's TV tips: The Handmaid's Tale, The Loch, Pitch Battle & more

July 08, 2017 - 16:59

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Pitch Battle (BBC1, 7.30pm) Six more choirs raise the roof in a bid to impress the judges, including this week’s star guest Seal. With host Mel Giedroyc and a round called The Showstopper, anyone would think the Beeb was trying to cash in on its former smash hit the Bake Off. If so, it’s not working. Why is no one watching this search for a whole bunch of singing stars? You decide.

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Tonight's TV tips: Rock ‘n’ Roll Guns For Hire, Corrie & Crystal Maze

July 07, 2017 - 14:56

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Coronation Street: snorting coke before the watershed

Coronation Street (ITV, 7.30 & 8.30pm) Sex, extreme violence, coke snorting in loving close-up… all way before the family viewing watershed. Welcome to Weatherfield, 2017. In tonight’s X-certificate double header, jealous Johnny spots Jenny and Matthew at the Bistro and flies into a rage.

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Tonight's TV tips: Killer Women With Piers Morgan and Naked Attraction

July 06, 2017 - 11:41

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Killer Women With Piers Morgan (ITV, 9pm) The Good Morning Britain host heads to Florida to meet Jennifer Mee who achieved fame as a teenager because she suffered from non-stop hiccups. But now the hiccups are long gone and dreadful Jenny languishes in jail for causing the death of a young man she lured into an alley to rob.

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Tonight's TV tips: The Windsors, Joanna Lumley's India & Fargo

July 05, 2017 - 11:16

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Harry Enfield plays Prince Charles in The Windsors

Joanna Lumley’s India (ITV, 9pm) ITV’s mania for sending the Ab Fab actress on free holidays continue apace. This time she’s off to India, where she was born many years ago. Lots of standard issue camera fodder shots interspersed with unusual moments as our intrepid heroine meets transgender kids and is shown a letter her colonial grandfather wrote in 1930.

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Tonight's TV tips: the finale of Broken and Hospital

July 04, 2017 - 09:04

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Broken starring Sean Bean as Father Michael

Broken (BBC1, 9pm) After a seriously dark series packed with suicide, death, homophobia, racism, police corruption and the sheer desperation of pervasive poverty, Jimmy McGovern’s bleak drama reaches its depressing conclusion. As his crisis of conscience deepens, can anguished priest Father Michael (Sean Bean) carry on? Never mind him, what about us?

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Tonight's TV tips: Coronation Street, The Betrayed Girls & Fearless

July 03, 2017 - 17:14

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Coronation Street: Chesney is stabbed in the bistro

Coronation Street (ITV, 7.30 and 8.30pm) Amid the perpetual turbulence of Weatherfield’s swirling mass of on-off romances, Chesney and Sinead predictably decide to give their rancid relationship another go. Only for fall-guy Chesney to get stabbed with a broken bottle in the bistro. Love hurts. Meanwhile, labouring under the delusion that he’s the only one who knows about Aidan’s not-so-secret affair with Maria, Adam attempts to blackmail Aidan for £5,000. Good luck with that.

WIMBLEDON: The channel hopping holy grail of grand slams begins again

July 02, 2017 - 20:37

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Tim Henman, Sue Barker and Martina Navratilova

By Andy Simon @AndySimon55

Wimbledon. Not everyone's cup of tea. However I have been enjoying watching the biggest of the grand-slams since 1977 when amazingly, Virginia Wade (Great Britain) won against Bettie Stove (Netherlands) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, and Bjorn Borg (Sweden) beat Jimmy Connors (USA) 3–6, 6–2, 6–1, 5–7, 6–4

Sorry about that. I can be a little, 'Geeky' sometimes.

And the coverage I have observed has certainly changed over the years to say nothing of all that high tech gadgetry now employed to record every stroke of every match.

Mount Pleasant has been an unparalleled joy

July 02, 2017 - 11:28

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By Matthew Gormley @MatthewPGormley

Last autumn, I gushed when I wrote about the sixth series of Mount Pleasant, Sky One’s superlative comedy drama. After another superb ten episodes of tears, laughter and a terrific mix of light and shade, there was no doubt in my mind that, come September 2017, I’d be sitting down again to enjoy another run. Sadly, that wasn’t to be. For some inexplicable reason, Sky bosses have decided that enough is enough, and have put the ‘cull’ into the cul-de-sac.

Coronation Street. Come in Aidan and Maria, your time is almost up

July 01, 2017 - 12:25

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Eva, Aidan and Maria in Coronation Street

For once in her impetuous life, Eva the pound store diva is biding her time. Revenge, she has decided, is a dish best served cold.

Trapped in Coronation Street’s perpetual circle of recycled love, the much-travelled Ms Price has been round the terraced houses so often she must be getting dizzy. If you’re male, the Price is invariably right.