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The Apprentice 2014 starts tomorrow on BBC1 at 9pm after being delayed because of the World Cup. To get us going we have two back to back shows, one tonight and another tomorrow night. Hopefully that is enough to wet our appetite and get us into the series and its spin off show with the wonderful and funny Dora O'Brian.
The start of the show has be heralded by a great and funny trailer on the BBC website that uses the Bond Gold Finger theme, which depicts Sir Alan Sugars finger as the gold finger of doom. It a clever and assuming way of introducing a show, that often shows us what is wrong with business in the UK and what is good, and we can see that in the meet the candidates video also available on the BBC Website, which is a another amusing look at the show. Of course a more serious introduction can also be found on the BBC Website, after all business is not all fun, you just have to ask the former bankrupt Sir Alan Sugar about that.
The show is now in its tenth series and most of them have made fascinating viewing from start to finish. This year we start out with 20 candidates for the prize of £250,000 to be invested in a business idea of there choice and to work in partnership with Sir Alan Sugar. Along the way 18 of them will fall fowl of the pointing finger and the words "Your Fired". By the last show in the series only 2 will remain to fight it out for the ultimate prize. Some of the candidates always seem like buffoons who would be better employed as road sweepers than high fliers in the business world, but that is all part of watching the show.
I'm looking forward to the start of the new series especially after having to wait for the whole of the summer. I just hope it is all worth the wait, which I'm sure it will be, once it gets underway tomorrow.
Richard Burr was the hottest favourite in history of "The Great British Bake Off" so it came as a surprise to hear the announcement tonight when Nancy Birtwhistle, a retired GP Practice manager, was crowned the winner of the this years show, after her home baked final show stopper.
Unfortunately for Richard it all went wrong in the final after winning the title of Master Baker week after week. Not sure if it was nerve but he was well off his game and although he tried to get it back on the second day his presentation rather than his baking let him down.
After the first day the situation was that either Luis Troyano and Nancy Birtwhistle were in the running for the title of winner of the Great British Bake Off 2014 and in the end it was Nancy's Moulin Rouge cake that stole the show on the final day and saw her passing the winning line.
Mary Berry said of this years series: "You never know how the bakers will be affected as we go through filming week by week, but Nancy remained constant throughout. I think it was her quiet determination that drove her through, and the fact that she never really lost her cool. It was a close run when it came to judging the final, but Nancy is deservedly our winner and I must admit that I have been inspired by her baking. The bakers have been so keen, so creative and the results have been mind blowing. It's been a real joy to judge this year."
Paul Hollywood said after the final: "Nancy has been confident, creative and unafraid as a baker and that showed from the very start. In one of my judgings I called her close to perfection, so that says it for me. This series has been one of the best for me, as we have had great bakers who have built on their baking expertise each week. They have shown both a depth of knowledge and a sense of humour, you really couldn't have asked for a better bunch.
'They have really pushed the boundaries of technique this year."
I really enjoyed watch the show this year it has been great television and some of the creation have been incredable. My favourite was Martha Collison who did so well to come fifth at the tender age of 17, which is 14 years younger than any other contestants when she first appeared on the show. I think she did amazingly well and she going to be am incredible baker when she reaches Nancy's age if she carries on baking.
Well that is it for the summer session of Big Brother with the winner of the Celebrity show being selected tonight. Thankfully now we have entered the autumn schedules there will be plenty to entertain us the show returns at the start of the new year.
After three weeks American actor Gary Busey was crowned the winner of
the show after some amazing twists and turns that we have come to expect
from the show since its move from Channel 4. Other than being in the house this summer Gary is best known for his roles in Point Break and The Buddy Holly Story, and his reputation for bizarre behaviour which we certainly saw this summer. The purists of the show might not like the changes to the show but it has brought it back to its peek around the time of Big Brother 5 when Big Brother turned nasty.
Well it has certainly been an eye opener of a show, showing the effects of what a massive ego can do. Lesley Jordan, the excessive name dropper of the first night turned into a real queen bee in the house with everyone feeding his ego which was bigger than the empire state building. He was so self centred that the whole house had to revolve around him and he made sure he did this by being the biggest drama queen I have ever seen in the house. Thankfully he didn't stay long.
Then there was Frenchie and her horrific tempter and fake boobs, James the patronising coward who some how made it through to the final 6. Of course we had a fake romance all for the sake of the press. And who can forget Kiellie who spent a week wanting to get out of the house, not understanding that is the best way of making sure the public keep you. Then finally there was the house bloke George, a man that spends his time watching TV while being on TV for a living.
One final thing I have noticed in this summers celebrity house is the intolerance, bullying and a lot more game playing than any of the recent celebrity shows. Over it has been a classic as far as conflict goes and a good way to end the summer series.
Today the threat of the closure of BBC Bigsccreen iPlayer service became reality as people with equipment made before 2011 noticed that their service had been withdrawn by the BBC. The warning appeared that the service was closing appeared about a month ago and perfectly serviceable equipment has now become obsolete.
The BBC claim that the Bigscreen service was only being used by about one percent of users and that it uses a completely different set of servers from the rest of the iplayer service and that this made it too expensive to run and hence an inefficient use of the license fee. The BBC also claim that the average life of a TV set means even those who had a brand new TV when it launched will probably be looking to upgrade soon.
Marcus Parnwell, executive product manager of the BBC's iPlayer clearly live in a different world from a lot of people if he thinks they can afford to replace a television every 4 years in an economic climate like today with falling standards of living. Although Bigscreen iPlayer was the BBC's first user interface designed for TVs that would work with a remote control its days didn't have be number, it was just bad design that they didn't think how to integrate the new services to be compatible with the old system. Other streaming providers have been doing this for ages, so it is nothing new.
The people that will be affected by this service change will be those on low incomes and the older members of the population who, for what ever reason, can't afford to up grade their TV or the Blu-ray player, which is the sad thing. The thing is, this move by the BBC systematic of the commercial throw away technological society we live in today.
Tonight sees the return of the X-Factor to our television screens. The show is now in its 11th year and the format is becoming predictable to say the least. People with stars in their eyes will appear on our screens some of which will be so awful they should never have been let near a microphone while others will have some sort of talent for singing karaoke, and then there might just be one really good singer that the show goes on to ruin.
You might think I'm being rather sceptical of the show but it is becoming tired and as a show it has lost it's own X Factor in recent years. It really has failed to deliver on the promise it uses get people to appear on the show, i.e to make them international stars. Although, some of the acts have gone onto do something they really never have found that enduring music star or act that goes on and on, or makes onto the world stage. Maybe that is because it lives in the popular music genre and it is basically run by a popular music mogul and it done for money and not for art.
In recent years the audience has declined since its peek in 2010 when Simon Cowell stopped judging the show when he moved to lead the judging panel on US version of the X Factor. This drop in the audience had led to people wondering if ITV would pull the plug on the show which takes up so much of it schedule on a Saturday evening.
| Year |
Average Audience |
| 2004 |
7.40 million |
| 2005 |
8.43 million |
| 2006 |
8.27 million |
| 2007 |
8.57 million |
| 2008 |
10.51 million |
| 2009 |
13.00 million |
| 2010 |
14.13 million |
| 2011 |
12.41 million |
| 2012 |
9.63 million |
| 2013 |
9.45 million |
This year sees major changes in the judging panel with the return of Simon Cowell who will be hoping to get the shows audience figures back to some where near their former highs and stop the rot. He is joined by the returning Cheryl Cole, new judge Mel B and Louis Walsh who is the only judge that has appeared in every series of the show.
It will be interesting to see how it does this autumn. Will it be the damp squid that it has been for the last few years or will they be able to do something with the shows now tired format and bring it back to life, or will this once family favourite just be just something to avoid?
South African born Australian Bill Kerr died yesterday watching his favourite show on television, the American show Seinfeld, at his home in Australia . He was the last of the major cast members of the 1950's radios "Handcock's Half Hour" to leave this earth, and once a familiar voice to millions and still can be heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra, even today.
He was born on 10th June 1922 into the lime light, and his first appearance was on the stage in his mothers arms. He use to famously say "I was such a hit, I retired in 1922 and made a comeback at seven". He grew up in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia and by the age of 10 he began to work in radio for ABC in 1932 and preformed child parts for about 8 years, making his first of many feature film appearances in 1934 as a blind child. Eventually the Second World War came and interrupted the his career.
After the war he moved to Britain and worked in variety shows and went to appear on BBC radio series Variety Bandbox. He was billed as s "the boy from Wagga-Wagga.", a place many of the British audience thought of as a comically surreal, end of the earth, magical place somewhere left of Narnia. During the time on the on the show he used the catch phase "I'm only here for four minutes." which became the trademark of his act.
In the fifties Bill Kerr became the Australian lodger in the hit radio show "Handcock's Half Hour"a show that is till being repeated today on BBC radio 4 Extra. Originally his character was brighter than Tony Handcok's, the shows star, but as the programme was developed he became dim-witted character who became the butt of Hancock's jokes. In all he made 102 episodes of the of the radio show, but never appear in the television version of the show because the writers, Galton and Simpson realised they would need a smaller cast for the television version of the show.
He wasn't just know to radio audiences during this time, he was also well known for his theatrical success appearing on the West End stage in both plays and musicals. In addition to this he worked on many films such as "The Dam Busters" in 1955 and "The Wrong Arm of the Law" in 1963. This and other work kept him in Britain until 1979 when he returned to his native Australia to settle in Perth where he concentrated on character roles and appeared in many films, plays and on television until he retired in 2006.
For me I will remember him in "Handcock's Half Hour" as a voice that became familiar to me as my love of radio grew as child, a format I still prefer to that of television. So influential where the shows that he made with Tony Handcock and Sid James that they were included in the underground radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS). A radio service designed to provide information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a nuclear attack.
I wish family, friends and his many fans all over the world many laughs in the future after the sadness of his pasting is no more. He left us countless hours of his work to enjoy for many years to come and for new generations to enjoy.
Time to return to hiding behind the sofa for the kids as the scary monster fight it out with the good old Doctor as tonight see the return of the BBC classic Dr Who, which is now has it's 12th Doctor since the show started back 23rd November 1963, the day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In that time between then and now there have been not only 12 Doctors but 26 series of the show and over 800 episodes. And television has gone from being 405 line black and white to full colour 1080i HDTV.
For those that have never seen the programme, if there are in fact anyone who hasn't, the programme it a Sci-fi series based on the adventures of a Gallifreyan Time Lord only known as the Doctor and his companions as the travelling through time and space. The original series were serial in nature with one story being played out over several episodes how ever when the format was reinvented in 2005 after a gap of 9 years from the screens the format was changed and now each story is told over a single longer episode.
The Doctor himself is an eccentric, highly-intelligent scientist from a distant planet. He travels through time and space in the TARDIS which larger on the inside than on the outside, and although it is designed to change its appearance to suit its surroundings, but unfortunately it is broken, and always appears as a blue British police box from the 1950/60's. The Doctor appears to have a soft spot for the planet Earth, and often visits there, either to save it from various alien threats or to whisk a choice few inhabitants away to the distant parts of the galaxy to help him fight evil there in the form Cybermen, Slitheen, Daleks, The master and many more.
The programme has been a family favourite here ever since the girls
started watch the show when it return back in 2005 with the wonderful Christopher Eccleston playing the ninth Doctor. For me he really reinvented the show abd brought it back to life, it was just a shame he made just the one series, which for me will always be one of the best. For Emily, David Tennant, became a bit of a heart throb when he took over as the tenth Doctor between 2005 and 2010. I know she was sad that he left the programme and she still loves watching the series he made and anything else with him in for that matter.
The new series starts tonight on BBC1 in the UK at 7.50pm and I'm sure it will draw a massive audience as it always has done in the past since it returned to our screens in 2005. For those that want to know more about the show and see all the extras the programme has its own page on the BBC website where you can watch programmes from the past.
Well they have certainly been busy at Elstree Studios over the weekend getting ready for the summer Celebrity Big Brother show. The old house mates left the house on Friday night and tonight the, so called, celebrities enter the house. As you can see it been cleaned and transformed and it is certainly very colourful this year so I hope they packed their sunglasses.
I wonder what the celebrities will make of the double beds and the mind games that will be played on them as the series unfolds. Just hope they get a week of basic rations at some point during the show, that always good for a bit or arguing about food and the other bickering that it can cause. Should be a interesting show and it all starts in a little over an hour.
All those people that dislike Big Brother might have thought it was safe to turn over to Channel 5 tonight, but they would be in for a shock with the start of a new summer series of Celebrity Big Brother starting tonight at 9pm. It is the show where a group of down and out Celebrities try and bost themselves into the A List by appearing on TV.
As always don't expect to know too many of the house mates. A lot of them tend to be bit part players in the celebrity world living their lives on low rating shows and on the not so popular TV channels, but there will be the odd big name if they have paid the right fee. Rumored house mates this summer include:
- Sex-swap boxing promoter Kellie Maloney, 61
- Former Strictly hunk James Jordan, 36
- Towie babe Lauren Goodger, 27
- Gogglebox star George Gilbey, 30
- Boxer Audley Harrison, 42
- Benefits Street queen Dee White, 43
- Made In Chelsea babe Stephanie Pratt, 28
- Kelly Brook’s boyfriend David McIntosh, 28
- Geordie Shore’s Ricci Guarnaccio, 27
- Ex Bewitched Singer Edele Lynch, 34
- Soap superbitch Claire King, 51
- Hollywood star Gary Busey, 70
If the last main show Big Brother is anything to go by it should be quite a show. It was the best Big Brother series for many a year with great tasks and a great mix of house mate and the power theme with simple genius. I will be watching as always, will you?
Updated - 23:00 18th Aug 2014 - Well the list held true with the addition of US Actor from Will and Grace, Leslie Jordan, 59, and finally former exotic dancer and US reality TV star, Angelique “Frenchy” Morgan, 38.
It been another summer in the Big Brother house full of arguments, tribal wars, controversy and the odd bit of bulling thrown in with Big Brother messing with the house mates heads along the way with "The Power". Sadly that all came to an end tonight with the final of this years summer show that features "members of the public" some of whom just what to join the low life celebrity list.
It been one of the best years in ages, I thought Channel 5 brought a breath of fresh air into the show when they took it over from Channel 4, but this year they have surpassed themselves. It has been an amazing show full of twists of turns with the books favorite changing from on week to the next. The task have been excellent and funny at the same time and the power trip theme worked really well. It kept the whole house on their toes for the whole show and made for excellent viewing. The forums were hot with talk and the show seemed so alive for those that watched it.
And the final night lived up to all that you would expect from the show with a lively crowd with lots of boo and cheers. The order of the final six house mates:
- 6th - Pav Paul (22) - Cheeky, resourceful and tactile ladies' man Pav comes from an affluent background and has a traditional Sikh family and works in the family property business.
- 5th - Chris Wright (33) - Wantabe actor but is currently between jobs. He is also a skilled artist and sells works of art drawn in biro. He has never had a normal job saying it wouldn't suit him.
- 4th - Ash Harrison (24) - Describes himself as lazy and says his looks give him blessed life 'filled with women'. He still lives at home with his mum and works in his dad's building firm.
- 3rd - Christopher Hall (23) - The sort of person that enjoys the thrill of the chase and refuses to take the word no for an answer. He is passionate about having an opinion, works hard and enjoys a good night out.
- 2nd - Ashleigh Coyle (18)- A confrontational character who spends all her money on spends her money on clothes, shoes and her dog Gucci, although she did say she would say give some of the winnings to charity . Ashleigh works part time in a boutique clothes shop in Derry and does modelling work in her free time.
- 1st - Helen Wood (27 - Pictured) - Helen is a down to earth Northerner who tells it like it is and a former prostitute who hit the headlines about 3 years ago which involved a big name personality. She has very forthright views and tends to be confrontational and has a short temper that lead to to fireworks in the house.
The final vote for 1st and 2nd place was very close and it was to hard even to call for the producers of the show, a mere 1.2%. With Helen coming through in the end despite at one point in some polls being the most hated house mate in the show this year.Wish I could say she came out with lots of cheers but it was a real mixture with quiet a lot of boos, but that to be expected and she will be a controversial winning that will cause a stir for years, but initial in papers like the straight laced Daily Mail.
Well fans of the show won't have long to wait until the show returns in 3 days in its Celebrity form. I just hope lives up to the main summer show and it just as good. All starts Monday on Channel 5, as they use to say "be there or be square".
The count down begins to the new series of the Great British Bake Off which starts its 5th series in less than a weeks time on August 6th at 8pm , having moved from BBC2 to BBC1 this year after ratings peaked at 9.1 million viewers, the highest ever seen on BBC2.
If you haven't seen it before each the bakers, all armatures are given three challenges: a signature challenge (which uses a tried and tested recipe), technical challenge (using a recipe provided by the judges), and finally a showstopper challenge (a bake designed to impress the judges). During the show the bakers are assessed by the judges who then
choose a "Star Baker" for the week, and a
contestant who goes home. In the final three bakers are left and a
winner is chosen from the three.
I never knew watching someone baking cakes could be so interesting to watch, although I have seen some amazing cakes made in my own kitchen, but it is. Hope you will join me and the countless other millions of people as the show hunts to find a successor last years winner Frances Quinn, from a group of 12 accomplished bakers and cooks. If you get hooked don't forget the "The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice" on BBC2 with Jo Brand.
I was at a bus stop in Melton when I learned of the death of Rik Mayall and I can say it was quite a shock to know someone so iconic had died at such a relatively young age. He is someone that defined a style of comedy that will go on passed his death and into the future.
Like a lot of people that watched in 1980's television he will be first remembered for his comic acting in the "Comic Strip Presents..." and especially the "Young Ones" which he co wrote with Ben Elton and Lise Mayer. A friend of mind at the time went to see an episode of the "Young Ones" being filmed and at the time described it as the funniest and most chaotic thing she had ever seen. The actors would deviate from their lines and go off on one long improvisation which was so funny that nobody wanted it to end. What marvelous television those out takes would make today if they didn't get wiped.
One of the roles I loved him that was a beautifully observed characterture of the right wing of the Conservative party in the ITV programme the "New Statesman". In this programme he played Alan B'Stard, a selfish, greedy, dishonest, devious, lecherous, sadistic, ultra-right-wing Conservative backbencher. Whatever crises and scandals swirled around the evil B'Stard, he would always come up smelling of roses. The running joke throughout the series was that, despite his extreme good looks and how easy it was for him to pursue his constant womanising, B'Stard was very under-endowed and suffered from premature ejaculation, and disappointed ever woman he slept with including his wife who was having constant affairs. It was a classic of it age well written and well acted all round, not just by Rik Mayall.
Of course he will also be remembered by many for the role of Richie in the BBC comedy "Bottom" in which he co-stared and co-wrote with his best friend Adrian Edmondson. They played two flatmates who live in Hammersmith, London, who are crude, perverted lunatics with no jobs, very little money, who spend their time concocting desperate schemes to acquire sex, attacking each other violently, and getting into dodgy situations. It takes the idea of slap stick comedy to the extreme with heads being crushed in fridge doors, fingers being cut off, penises set on fire, legs being chainsawed off, forks shoved in eyes, and pencils forced up noses, to name just a few. Yet again another master piece of its time.
I know personally that he influenced my acting and I can remember doing improvisations at the West Yorkshire Playhouse with larger than life characters based on his acting style in programmes like "Bottom" and a "New Statesman" in particular. I can see why he enjoyed his acting, it required lots of energy and a quick mind to pull off what he did and make it funny. It was all over the top and lived on the edge of what people would find socially acceptable and shocking. Like a large cartoon on what he saw and observed of life.
Like many I will miss not
having him about on this planet, and over the years he has given me
many laughs to the point of crying. Like always my heart goes
out to his family and his friends and all that met and worked with this
great man.
It is that time of the year again and we start off with a new summer series of Big Brother on Channel 5. It seems amazing that we have reached Big Brother 15 when a lot of people thought that show would end at Big Brother 11 when Channel 4 decided they would stop airing the show. Here are the pictures of the new house.
As always I will be watching the show, the only series I missed was Big Brother 4 when I spent a year without a television. It will be a long summer not just for the viewers but for the house mates too with the shows final on 15th August some two months and ten days after they went into the house. Then we will have a new series of the celebrity show to look forward too.
You can't have missed this wonderful Irish Comic on television over the years in shows like "The Apprentice: You're Fired!" and of course "Mock the Week" which believe it or not has now been going for over 9 years, with the new series starting 12th June 2014 (A date to pencil in your dairy).
Mock the Week is topical celebrity panel game which is based around improvised topical stand-up comedy based around stories and headlines in the news, which was created by the makers of "Whose Line is it Anyway?". It can at best be hilariously funny and at worse keep you chuckling from the start of the show until the end, with Dara Ó Briain being the perfect and funny host of the show. For a topical game show it is up there with the best you can find on British television at the moment.
By all accounts Dara Ó Briain, as well as being a presenter is a fine live comedian by all accounts and attracts the intellectual audience with his smart nerdy observational style and quick thinking. From the reviews I have read and what people have said I know I would enjoy his live shows. He certainly is someone I would love to see the stage, something I miss from the past caused having children and then when I came to Rutland children and no babysitter.
In recent years the show has taken a bit of flack in the press, with some comedians claiming it is scripted, however if it is or not is irrelevant as long as it makes you laugh. Lets hope it isn't unlucky series 13 and after the new series there will be more commissioned by the BBC, presented arguably by Britain's favorite Irishman.
If you were wondering what has happened to this years The Apprentice it has been moved to the Autumn to avoid the World Cup. It was felt it would be detrimental to the show to have it compete with such a major sporting event and I can imagine that the summer was ruled out because of the commonwealth games.
The good news is that it is returning and filming started this week for the new series and pictures are circulating on the Internet of the filming of the show. It will be a closely guarded secret if the filming has really started but if it is I can't wait to see the show, which will be completed long before it hits the screens.
After nine series of Dancing on Ice the show came to an end to day with the crowning of the ultimate winer of the final show, Ray Quinn the former winner of Series 4 back in winter of 2009. Given how good he was and how committed he was he had to be the favorite from the start and the opposition did keep him on his toes.
For those that need reminding of how good he was back in the winter of 2009 I have found a video of all the routines he danced that year. You can watch it below or on YouTube. Remember when you watch the first routine it was the first time he had been on the ice, and make a note of watching the flying performance which is about 54 and half minutes into the video.
Of course it would only be fair to include a full video of all his routines of the final series of Dancing on Ice, so here it is, again you can watch it on YouTube, where you can select the quality you watch it at.
I'm going to miss the show. It was one of the winter highlights of a Sunday night that it became a family favorite. The good thing is there are a lot of clips out there to watch on sites like YouTube, and you could always go and see the final live shows. Goodbye "Dancing on Ice", it has been so much fun since I started watching the show. Thank you Torvill and Dean and all the people that have made it a goos show over the years.
The Voice is one of those programmes that has so much promise but never really delivers, but one its highs are the blind audition stages right at the beginning and it is after that that the show seems to go downhill and fails to deliver. It not the fault of the performers or the mentors but the format of the later part of the show which just doesn't grab you in the same as the X-Factor.
Why I like it is that every so often it throws up something just that little bit different that it makes you take notice and this year isn't much different from previous years in that respect. When Anna McLuckie turned up on the stage on Saturday with a Harp you knew something would happen and it did. She preformed an absolutely captivating version of "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk. It was truly spellbinding and beautiful executed as you can see from the video above.
Unforntantly for her I do fear she picked the wrong person as a mentor in Wil.I.Am rather than Ricky Wilson who turned first. The Ricky was completely taken by her style and her voice while looking at Wil.I.Amhe turned not because he could do something with her but because he knew how much of a threat she would pose with Ricky's guidance. I guess only time tell if I'm right if I can get passed the auditions.
For the very last time it is that time of year for dancing on ice and the final show ever. As the is fitting for the final show it will a spectacular with past winners and semi finalist and a few people that have entertained us over the years.
It should be an amazing show and I'm really looking forward to it, although I'm not looking forward to the show ending. It has given countless millions something to look forward to over the winter. I will be watching it every night until it ends and it is just going to be great.
with the coming of the new year comes the first Celebrity Big Brother of the year, the other one being later in the summer. Although I'm not so involved in the ThisisBigBrother forum as I use to be I still enjoy the show and look forward to the release of the new pictures of the house, a sure sign the series is about to start.
As aways I looking forward to it and seeing what the crazy Celebrities get up to and what Big Brother can throw at them. Channel 5 might not have the viewing figures of the original Channel 4 shows but it has breathed new life into the show both in the Celebrity version and the main summer shows. If you like the reality television I can recommend it.
One of the programmes I have loved on television is finally coming to an end. Him and her has been one of my favorite comedy programmes since it first aired back in September 2010. I will be more than sad to see it go. The writing is excellent, the directing perfect and the casting acting superb. It is one of the shows that reflects back on us the reality of life and it is a careful observation of the human condition.
For those that don't know it is a television sitcom about a lazy twenty-something couple, called Steve and Becky. They are both unemployed and share a small flat surviving on benefits. Steve has no dreams or goals in life other than in eating, sleeping, drinking and having sex. While Becky is a ladette with no desire to seek employment, she is popular with friends and the sort of girl that is always first to hit the dance floor when clubbing with the girls. Becky is sarcastic to the point of meanness and she sees straight through Steve but while being completely unable to understand the weird self-obsessions of men. The show is acutely observed, forensically honest, warts-and-all look at their lives.
The first programme in the last series airs tomorrow night and I will be glued to the box laughing at funny moments and be immersed in their life as if it was a soap opera. I recommended that you do the same, it is well worth half and hour of your time.
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