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"Testosterone
Boys" (BBC1, wed 10.35) Ewwwwwwwww,
yuck! Now, I love World's Strongest Man & the like,
but there's some purpose to that, there's all round fitness &
strength, as well as large concrete balls to be hefted onto a
wall. This? Teenage boys smothered in gravy browning
& cooking oil, strutting around in posing pouches trying to
look like Robocop. No! They should be sitting in a
darkened bedroom, listening to Linkin Park, spending hours "reading"
Playboy, and obsessing over the fact they'll never get a
girlfriend. That would be normal, not this.
There are too many nostalgic twenty/thirty-somethings working in TV
these days. That would explain the rumour I've heard about
bringing back Rainbow as an adult chat show. And the current
revivial of "The Basil
Brush Show" (BBC1, Fri, 4.15) The
kids don't get it, it's not as good as you remember, and it's not even
the same Basil! Leave the past in the past, and let me watch
my Willo The Wisp video in peace.
"A Life Of Grime
Special: Mr Trebus" (BBC1, Sun 9pm)
Bless 'im. The elderly Polish man with a passion for hoarding
junk and arguing with Haringey Council, who died in
September. (Mr Trebus that is, Haringey Council is still alive
and kicking) There are times when we all want to tell people
to "Stick it up your jumper", so you can't help but admire
someone who had the bottle to say it. It's still a mystery
exactly why he felt the need to surround himself with "possessions",
and why he couldn't see that some of them needed to be removed to allow
him to live an easier and safer life, but he added personality to the
smelliest show on TV. The world is a slightly less colourful
place - albeit with a few less rats.
I don't normally touch regional programmes, they're dull enough if
they're your own region, but if they're not, then you're just going to
give them an extremely wide berth. But trust me.
Get yourself digital, move to Aberystwyth, do whatever it takes to get
either BBC2W (digi) or BBC 1 Wales. "High
Hopes" (BBC1 Wales, Weds
10pm) By far the best comedy the BBC have made in
years. Kind of a Welsh League of Gentlemen, only better
(Please don't lynch me) By the quality of it, it's likely to
be repeated across the country by this time next year, but don't you
just love to be first with the Next Big Thing? You read it
here first!
Bit short this week? Maybe, but there's this problem, you
see. The snooker season started up with the LG Cup (BBC 2, all
week), and so it shunted a lot of other programmes, and to be honest,
was most of what I watched. Full of shocks, a well deserved
win, and the Beeb STILL haven't sorted out the theme tune. You
don't want to know how many emails I sent them last season about the
remixed version of Drag Racer, but evidently it wasn't
enough. So my campaign restarts. People kicked off
about the Eastenders theme tune, so they changed it back. We
can do the same for the snooker. Email snooker@bbc.co.uk
and ask them to revert to the original version of Drag Racer for the
theme tune. And I'll love you forever!
Lorraine
mailto:lorraine@scribeweekly.com
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