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The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Sarah Dempster

TV turn-ons and turn-offs

Jim Al-Khalili in Everything and Nothing.
Jim Al-Khalili in Everything and Nothing. Photograph: BBC/Furnace TV/Furnace TV

Turn-ons

Professor Jim Al-Khalili in Everything and Nothing

Back once again for the renegade master.

Sky Arts's In Confidence

Confabulations and jubilations: ferociously erudite chat-show returns; G. Norton & A. Titchmarsh wounded in crossfire.

Women In Love

'Appen tha won't find a better bit o' lit'rary filth than that what's bendin' o'er on th' BBC4, mother.

Extraordinary Dogs

The power. The Glory. The halitosis. In Dog we trust.

Turn-offs

John Hannah in Spartacus: Gods of The Arena

World's Worst Actor cocks accent, aims vowels at ludicrous prequel. Et tu, McBrute?

Channel 5's The Blasters

Overworked 'taciturn navvies' sub-genre clutches chest, gasps; collapses to strains of exploding drain.

The Only Way is Essex

More expressionless revelry and desultory penazzlement from 'living soap' innit.

Mrs Brown's Boys

Father Dead.

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