Don has blown his chances with flatmate Sam and to make matters worse she has a new boyfriend. With no career, Don comes up with an elaborate story about a new job to try to impress her. Things finally appear to be going his way when a chance encounter with high-flying executive Marcus leads to a promotion. Of course being Don, it’s not long before it all goes wrong.
Comedy series starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon.
When Steve is commissioned by the food supplement of a Sunday newspaper to review half a dozen restaurants, he decides to mix work with pleasure and plans a trip around the north of England with his food loving American girlfriend. But when his girlfriend decides to leave him and return to the States, Steve is faced with a week of meals for one, not quite the trip he had in mind. Reluctantly, he calls Rob, the only person he can think of who will be available. Rob, never one to turn down a free lunch (let alone six) agrees, and together they set off for a culinary adventure.
Over the course of six meals at six different restaurants in and around the Lake District, Lancashire and the Yorkshire Dales, this ultimate odd couple find themselves debating the big questions of life over a series of culinary delights.
Their first stop is the Inn at Whitewell in the beautiful Trough of Bowland.
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I know Halloween is over, but that’ll make these watchable and not cause heart failure!
BBC has shown Halloween and Halloween 4 & 5!
Harrowing horror-suspense story about Michael Myers, a murderous lunatic who escapes incarceration and returns to his home town intent on reliving his crime.
Fifteen years before, on Halloween night, the boy had forsaken trick-or-treating to viciously stab his sister Judith to death. Now he is pursued by Dr Sam Loomis, who has pronounced him to be evil personified. (R)
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It looks as though the former Seinfeld crew has found a new home at HBO. While Larry David has been starring in the premium cable channel’s Curb Your Enthusiasm for the past seven seasons, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is in talks to lead another comedy on the network as well. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Dreyfus; possible new gig is titled Veep, a series that follows a woman who becomes the Vice President and realizes that she may be in over her head. The show will be penned bysatiristand comedian Armando Iannucci. While all of the former Seinfeld actors have worked in difference projects since they took their final bow on the series, it seems as though Dreyfus has experienced the most success. The actress was nominated for five Emmys for her most recent comedy, The New Adventures of Old Christine, taking home the statuette in 2006. Dreyfus also recently appeared on the hit NBC sitcom 30 Rock.
I watched this last night and fell in love with David Attenbrough. He is such a special man and without him television programs may not be the same! This is worth a watch!
Following David Attenborough as he travels the globe to film his new series, David Attenborough’s First Life, in which he explores the very origins of life on Earth.
David journeys to the parts of the world which have had special meaning to him during his 50 years of broadcasting. Beginning near his boyhood Leicestershire home, where he first collected fossils, he then travels to Morocco’s arid deserts, the glaciers of Canada and crystal clear waters of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
As a prelude to the First Life series, Attenborough’s Journey provides a unique insight into the mind and character of one of the world’s most iconic broadcasters as he shares his passions for the natural world. Combining his global journey for First Life and archive material looking back at his illustrious career both as a programme maker and a controller of the BBC, the film reveals what makes him tick.
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How can you not watch a programme entitled ‘Giant Squid: Inside Nature’s Giants’?
It’s the sort of title that would be up there with ‘Bodyshock: The Real Incredible Hulk’, ‘The Big Bang Caught On Camera’ or ‘An Audience With – God’.
This latest installment of the fascinating animal dissection series is the sort of risky, original and intelligent programming we don’t get enough of from Channel Four anymore.
As long as you weren’t midway through a bowl creamy tagliatelle, it’s not as disgusting a programme as you might think and most urges for a Technicolor yawn (as the Australian’s like to put it) are usurped by inexorable wonderment.
Even our atheist friend Richard Dawkins is on hand to explain the evolutionary functions and origins of the animal’s various gooey bits as its mechanisms and private parts (with a small ‘p’) are explored, poked, prodded and extracted.
Among the highlights were snippets of footage featuring the only recently thought mythological colossal squid as well as some ‘wow’ inducing real-life shape and colour shifting gymnastics by octopi, making Hollywood CGI look like the animation from Rhubarb and Custard.
Not easy viewing by any means, but it’s well worth the effort.
Also this week, This Week. For anyone interested in what goes on in the back passages of Parliament, this frank and revealing show is politics with it’s guard down and probably wouldn’t be broadcast at all if more than 11 people watched it.
There’s almost an air that it’s invitation only viewing, with everything about the show’s presentation screaming “keep flicking!”
Its shoddy, garish set, cheap title sequences and haphazard presentation are an instant turn off, and even if you can get past that you still have to face Andrew Neil’s hair plugs and reconcile yourself with the revelation that Michael Portillo can actually be ferociously intelligent and almost likeable. That’s enough to make anyone shudder.
It’s a programme that really shouldn’t work and often doesn’t, but here in lies its appeal. Away from the PR gurus and circumnavigated difficult questions from Paxman, it turns out that politicians can be a self-effacing and candid lot. With the panel and guests of varying stardom going off message and the show’s frank discussions revealing the actual truth behind the headlines, it’s eye opening at times and makes sense of the dreary political posturing that usually grabs the headlines.
You only had to see previous Labour backbencher Diane Abbot’s slightly tipsy dressing down of Esther Ransen in the run up to the last election to see how ‘gloves off’ the show can get.
Lastly this week, it’s the long awaited return of Harry Hill’s TV Burp, as Saturday’s have been lost without it. Ok, it may not be breaking the boundaries of comedy and may have the budget of a Big Breakfast outside broadcast, but, by Harry, it’s funny.
The show first started as a late night ITV throw away show, and despite not having changed one iota of its format, it has become a primetime favourite.
Any fans of Harry Hill’s earlier surrealist works are no doubt also fans of this show, which Harry has managed to turn into a vehicle for his bizarre sense of humour.
If anything it’s been a master stroke for this one time largely ignored comic to use the format of a cheeky television review programme as a vehicle for his own act, but its success has been a measure of it’s consistent quality. Last week’s show featured one of the most hilarious slapstick sketches the show has produced yet, with Harry jumping into the back of a truck to eat some cream cakes. Daft, but brilliant Saturday afternoon tele and always laugh out loud funny – Goal!
More next week, Delivisionites!
