Great. Yet another paean to capitalism and the glorification of the boss class. Not content with blitzing us with Dragon’s Den, The Apprentice and a whole genre of TV programmes shoving you in your place (how very Confucian), C4 gives us another series naturalising the New Order, in Undercover Boss (C4 9pm, Thursdays). Watching Alan […]
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Has anyone else stumbled across the Bravo cable TV show, 1,000 Ways To Die? It’s a sweet little offering from the US, re-enacting the weirdest ways people have met their end — usually prime contenders for the Darwin Awards. I’m sitting here squirming having just watched the fate of the scumbag robber who stole groceries
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Oh, I am so suggestible. I have just finished my first bacon roll in years (actually, a bagel — howzat for a fusion-cuisine atrocity?) as a direct result of watching the seventh and latest episode of CBBC’s children’s show, Spirit Warriors. The one that begins with our young heroes happening upon a dream setting of
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Well, that is the most harrowing film I’ve seen for a long time. I’m watching Channel 4’s Tsunami: Caught On Camera, tourist video footage of the Boxing Day disaster in 2004. When this actually happened I was in bed, drowning in my own lung fluid from a severe bout of bronchitis while the TV was
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Enron chief execs, Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Last night I watched The Shock Doctrine followed by Enron, The Smartest Guys in the Room on More 4 in a truly wrist-slitting binge of disaster telly from which I am only now recovering with a mug of Earl Grey. The main thrust of The Shock Doctrine,
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Trust me. I’m a Doctor! Reviews at A Very Public Sociologist and Harpy Marx cover the Dr Who Easter special so I’m spared that particular chore. But I will add my alarm that, as we slip silently into Surveillance Britain, even this innocent series, beloved of our childhood, has been inducted into the government’s Planet
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