TV Scoop

Set The Video: Leaving Home at 8, Channel 4, Thursday, 11 February, 9pm

mofgimmers — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:14:25 GMT

Leaving Home at 8 (Channel 4, Thursday, 11 February, 9pm) is set to appear on our screens and break our miserable little hearts. Basically, it's a show that revolves around sending children to boarding school. Yessir, a show about one...

BBC to reflect on the true meaning of Easter

mofgimmers — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:58:33 GMT

I've been continually sniping at religion on these pages for years. So, in an attempt to make friends with you Christians who aren't mental pro-lifers and condom-haters, here's an article that says Jesus Is Just Alright With Me....

BBC spend £54million on top-stars

mofgimmers — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:42:56 GMT

Open your window and you'll hear the sound of people tearing up their TV licences in disgust. Yep, news has broken that the BBC has spent £54m on presenters earning £150,000 or more in the 12 months to the end...

TV Review: Tower Block of Commons, Channel 4, Monday, 8 February, 9pm

mofgimmers — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:26:57 GMT

I'm not going to lie to you. I am one of those incredible bores who bangs on about 'class' all the time. I can't help it because regardless of what people say, it does matter - especially if you're many...

Set The Video: Horizon, BBC Two, Wednesday, 10 February, 9pm

mofgimmers — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:26:50 GMT

Like... whoa duuuude... Horizon (BBC Two, Wednesday, 10 February, 9pm) is going to be talking about infinity and all that eye-widening stuff. Yep, science that tries to sidestep boring stuff like How Much Fuel Comes From A Peanut When You...

Strictly Come Dancing Sport Relief Special - Out Of The Dragons' Den And Into The Fire Or Something Like That

mofgimmers — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:10:59 GMT

Dragons' Den's Duncan Bannatyne and Peter Jones will be squaring up and donning their dancing shoes for the Strictly Come Dancing Sport Relief special. Again. In this Sport Relief special the tables are turned on these business bastards who are...

Sky to bring us A League Of Their Own (aka They Think It's All Over part 2)

mofgimmers — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:54:49 GMT

Television can be a monumentally depressing prospect at times. You kid yourself into thinking that it's a place full of bright people with great ideas... and then Sky 1 announces that they're making a show called A League of Their...

Trailer Trash: Snog Marry Avoid... in Magaluf

mofgimmers — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:22:38 GMT

Jenny Frost is returning to our screens to present the third series of the crash-crash viewingfest, Snog Marry Avoid. Once again, she'll be joined by a pretend computer called POD and a bunch of humans that have vanished under a...

Coronation Street's Gail and Joe's Lake District trip

shinychris — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:49:45 GMT

Corrie gets very exciting tonight as Gail and Joe go for a supposedly 'romantic break' to the Lakes. When Gail discovers Joe's plans to swindle the insurance company to pay off his debts she tries to stop him taking the...

What To Watch This Weekend

mofgimmers — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:18:09 GMT

The weekend is upon us once more and, if you don't have a job that makes you work weekends... or indeed, don't have a job at all, now's the time to go out and have fun with your friends. Why?...

TV Review: Hotter Than My Daughter, BBC Three, Thursday, 4 February, 8.30pm

mofgimmers — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:46:31 GMT

I'm greatly looking forward to BBC Three giving Daphne and Celeste their own show. Possibly called U.G.L.Y. It'll see the pair mercilessly tearing strips of 'mingers' in the street without offering any help other than a paper bag with two...

The Vampire Diaries - Twilight meets Dawson's Creek and forms a charmingly banal baby

Jyotsna — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:05:27 GMT

Vampires have long been a staple in mass media. TV-wise especially there always seems to be a vampire show on the go (the theme of vampire investigators seems to be weirdly prevalent - Forever Knight, Angel, Blood Ties, Moonlight...

Set The Video: Generation Jihad, BBC Two, Monday, 8 February, 9pm

mofgimmers — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:47:58 GMT

Aaargh! Jihadists! Everywhere! I've just hit one with a rolled up newspaper as it scuttled under my couch! There's another one in my shower, plotting evil deeds no doubt! Jihadists are those eight-legged things right? Those things that spin webs?...

Coronation Street's Betty is 90 today!

mofgimmers — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:29:19 GMT

Coronation Street's First Lady, Betty Turpin (well, she's called Williams now, but she'll always be 'Turpin' to me) is 90 years old today! Betty Driver (that's her real name, in case you didn't know) has been playing the Queen of...

The Good Wife - Possibly the classiest thing on TV right now

mofgimmers — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:10:40 GMT

You'd be forgiven for thinking that the only good thing shown on TV recently is Doctor Who and The Wire. Everything else is staggeringly crap. Right? TV continues to scrape the barrel with format reality shows and things featuring Amanda...

Sky News and Kay Burley make Peter Andre cry

mofgimmers — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:39:23 GMT

Sky News is the British equivalent of America's Fox News. It's reactionary and wild-eyed, amping up each piece of dreadful, terrifying news to the point where us mortals end up cowering under our beds waiting for our inevitable murder. That...

TV Review: Amanda Holden's Fantasy Lives, ITV1, Tuesday, 2 February, 9pm

mofgimmers — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:32:32 GMT

ITV have incredible front. First they've got the sheer cheek to send Piers Morgan around some of the most glamorous places in the world and not wonder why that might be staggeringly dreadful... and now... well... they've given us Amanda...

Set The Video: Simon King's Shetland Diaries, BBC Two, Thursday, 4 February, 8pm

mofgimmers — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:37:20 GMT

Springwatch (and Autumnwatch) have become something of a cult favourite on TV. I think it's because it saves us from actually having to bother with the outside. Our TV acts as a window and Kate Humble can get cold and...

Young people! Do you want to star in BBC's The Cut?

mofgimmers — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:21:27 GMT

The BBC's teen channelette BBC Switch has announced that it is has commissioned a second series of its multi-platform teen drama, The Cut. The better news for you Kidz is that the show will be holding open auditions in four...

Watch the Reduced Shakespeare Company do Lost

mofgimmers — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:49:48 GMT

Last week the Reduced Shakespeare Company performed 'Lost Reduced' in London. They said it couldn't be done, but the Reduced Shakespeare Company managed to condense 5 seasons of Lost into 10 minutes, exclusively for Sky1 HD. The result is the...

Trailer Trash: Hotter Than My Daughter

mofgimmers — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:42:08 GMT

TV doesn't do itself any favours when trying to convince us that it isn't dumbing down. Apparently, the next series of Britain's Got Talent will see a man who is able to puke up coins in any order you like....

Come Dine With Me in fakery shocker!

mofgimmers — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:10:34 GMT

Apparently, Come Dine With Me is not a real cookery show. I know, I know... I feel betrayed to the point of tablets too. The Channel 4 show has mislead viewers all this time, admitting that celebrity contestants are being...

Will Dancing on Ice flush Jason Gardiner away?

mofgimmers — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:54:53 GMT

I've said some dreadful things about people on these pages in the name of getting a cheap laugh. Horse-whippings, public humiliation... that sort of thing. Most of the time, I don't mean it and it all unfurls like an elaborate...

TV Review: Mo, Channel 4, Sunday, 31 January, 9pm

mofgimmers — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:08:07 GMT

Pretty much everyone I know loved Mo Mowlam. Somehow, she managed to be both a politician and a human-being. Look at the way everyone likes Vince Cable now... Mo was Vince times a million. She made huge progress in Ireland/Northern...

What To Watch This Weekend

mofgimmers — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:58:29 GMT

Hello weekend! How are you? Me? Grumpy as ever but y'know, nothing new there. I bet you've got loads of cool stuff planned for this weekend like beer, dancing, sex and fistfights in A&E wards. Good ol' you! What about...