The Week In Weird TV: Splash And Extreme Fishing
The very first thing to say about Splash! is that any programme that thinks it’s ok to have an exclamation mark in the title should be regarded with the same sort of suspicion as men who undo three...
View ArticleThe Week In Weird TV: Millionaire Matchmaker And The Zoo Next Door
Think of the shallowest thing you can. Now imagine leaving it in the Gobi desert for thirty years so that it becomes a lifeless husk of ash, and you just might just begin to get somewhere close to the...
View ArticleThe Week In Weird TV: Rich Kids In Beverly Hills And Ben Fogle In India
If you scroll through your TV guide, past the plus ones and old repeats of The Crystal Maze you will eventually come across a channel named E!. E Entertainment is a network devoted entirely to the...
View ArticleThe Week In Weird TV: Living With Parasites And Vanilla Ice
You know what you never hear about these days? Tapeworms. They’re a bit like moustaches: people used to have them in the seventies but now they just seem like carelessness. However, last week they made...
View ArticleThe Week In Weird TV: Super Dogs And John Barrowman
Imagine the least offensive TV programme you can? Imagine a programme so light that a gentle fart from Kate Middleton would send it spiralling through the air. Now imagine that it’s presented by...
View ArticleITV Taking The Piss Out Of Joey Essex Is Long
Joey Essex is what would happen if David Beckham was capable of parthenogenesis: a super distilled version, who probably finds himself walking into a lot of lampposts. Even Joey himself would agree...
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