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Someone Else Holding the Baby Blues
11/01/12

Back to the Future Too
30/12/11

Untold Cooper
29/12/11

A British Defence Against America
08/12/11

Not So Marvellous
07/12/11
Average Rating: 3 out of 5
We need to talk about Gervais
19/10/11
Average Rating: 4 out of 5
A Quarter Life Crisis
06/10/11
Average Rating: 4 out of 5
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
05/10/11
Average Rating: 4 out of 5
An open letter to George Lucas.
01/09/11

Burn Hollywood Burn
19/07/11

The Apprenticed
18/07/11

In Praise of ITV
03/07/11

Sick
28/06/11

Know the Drill
03/06/11

Modern Cinemas are Rubbish
02/06/11
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
My Tooth Story
26/05/11

Game of PWNS
24/05/11
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
West is West
19/05/11
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Crime Crime Crime
17/05/11

The Bored Room
11/05/11
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
The Future Shock
09/05/11

The Worm That Eats Itself
06/05/11
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
The Life Atwatic
24/04/11

Driving Like A Dick
17/04/11
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
A Penny For My Thoughts
27/03/11
Average Rating: 2 out of 5
The Needle and the Damage Done
23/03/11
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
The Meaning of Life Part 1 : Birth
16/03/11
Average Rating: 3 out of 5
10 O Clock Dive
21/01/11
Average Rating: 4.3 out of 5
Falling off of the Witches Hat
19/01/11
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Small Talk
18/01/11
Average Rating: 4.8 out of 5
The Waiting Game
13/01/11
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
2011
05/01/11

2010
31/12/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Police Stop
30/12/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Z Cast
29/12/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
The Crazy Adventures of Bastian and Atreyu
09/12/10

A note to my son or daughter.
08/12/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Baby I can drive your car
22/10/10
Average Rating: 4.3 out of 5
A Good Society
10/09/10

The National Sport of Rubbernecking
09/09/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Scanners 2
08/09/10

What mean Expendable?
07/09/10
Average Rating: 4.3 out of 5
Adventures in Babyhaving
06/09/10
Average Rating: 0 out of 5
Warning : Speculation
12/07/10
Average Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Adventures in driving
07/07/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
05/07/10
Average Rating: 4 out of 5
Pipe Up
23/04/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
More Bard News
21/04/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Volcanoes and Elections
20/04/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Grumpy Old Deathwish
29/03/10

The Apple
27/03/10
Average Rating: 2 out of 5
1987
26/03/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
The Long Bad Wednesday
25/03/10

Art for Art's Sake
23/03/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Modern Slash
22/03/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
A Little Bit 'Special'
16/03/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Dead Happy
05/03/10
Average Rating: 3.3 out of 5
Video Killed The Radio Stars
03/03/10
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Sunday Zoo
01/03/10

Im Flugzeug
20/02/10
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Radio Times
17/02/10
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Intellectual Property
16/02/10

Happy Loveday
15/02/10

A Load of Pony
25/01/10

I Want To Lie Down With A Lion
18/01/10
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'You Lecherous Moron'
17/01/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
A National Treasure
15/01/10

Snow
13/01/10
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Friday The 13th
12/01/10
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Steaks are High
11/01/10
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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
16/11/09
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BBC Bashing
10/11/09
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Kenny Effing Powers!
09/11/09

No More Heroes
06/11/09
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What I Did In My Holidays
04/11/09

Jellyneck
22/09/09
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Can Buy Me Love
10/09/09

Memory Lane
27/08/09
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Shitting Stars
26/08/09

The Life and Death of My Pop Star Life
25/08/09
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Are You Being Offended?
24/08/09
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My Generation
14/08/09
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Home Alone 2 : Lost In 1939-1945
12/08/09
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Home Alone
29/07/09
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Context
28/07/09
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Summer is a bummer
27/07/09
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Time Waster
26/07/09
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Yes, but how did it Happen??
25/07/09

He Must Have Some Agent
24/07/09
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Day 2
23/07/09
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A New Morning
22/07/09
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The Sadness
21/07/09

Who Punishes The Punisher?
17/07/09
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The New Blog
09/07/09
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21/05/09
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An Englishman's Home Is His Castle
20/05/09
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The Return
05/05/09
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Double Trouble
06/04/09

It's The End Of The World As I Know It
05/04/09
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Not Good Enough
30/03/09
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Picture This
24/03/09
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Size Matters
22/03/09
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The Death of Mother Tongue
19/03/09
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I Am Modern Man
18/03/09
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Not Ready
16/03/09
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Watched
10/03/09
Average Rating: 4 out of 5
Wired
08/03/09

The Running Man
26/02/09
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Run, Fatboy, Run
25/02/09
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Absent Friends
09/02/09
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Snow Wonder
02/02/09
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A New Breed of Hero
21/01/09
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You Be The Judge
20/01/09
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Take Hart
18/01/09
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What's In A Name?
17/01/09
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Don't Remake Me Over
16/01/09
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Random Fluctuations In The Space Time Continuum!
08/01/09
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The Future Is Already Written
07/01/09

The Shortest Story Ever Told
06/01/09

Demon Seed
03/01/09
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2008
30/12/08
Average Rating: 4 out of 5
What's Cooking?
29/12/08
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A Feel Good Story
21/12/08
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The Curse
19/12/08
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He's Not The Messiah!
15/12/08
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Who throws a shoe?
14/12/08

Sneaky Christmas
10/12/08

Feeling Blu
09/12/08
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SHT
07/12/08

Gategate
02/12/08
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Comedy of Errors
30/11/08
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For What It's Worth
27/11/08
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Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters
23/11/08

National Expression
20/11/08
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A View To A Job
18/11/08
Average Rating: 1 out of 5
Last Bus Gone
17/11/08
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Jungle Nobodies
12/11/08
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
The Cage Strain
11/11/08

A Common Practice In Poland
07/11/08
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
Close Encounters of the West Country Kind
06/11/08
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
David Brent Would Vote For Barack Obama
05/11/08
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
I am Legend
04/11/08
Average Rating: 4 out of 5
Setting The President In The Art World
03/11/08
Average Rating: 5 out of 5
My Word Is My Bond
02/11/08

Not Good Enough
or, scrap heap blues

30/03/09
British television "lacks the high end of drama", The Wire star Dominic West has said. The British actor, 39, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme "we do costume drama brilliantly" but that UK TV was lacking shows like US drama The Wire.

He is spot on.

It seems that every time we produce a new drama serial it is Dickens, Austin or the like.

American TV and HBO especially has a frighteningly good output of TV drama.

I recently watched Band of Brothers and whilst I enjoyed it immensely, it made me wish that our channels would take a chance and produce something similar. We have some marvellous war stories that we could put on the small screen. But, we would rather see "Demons" apparantly or yet another hideous season of Dr. Fucking Who (To give him his full name) with Jonny Greenwood.

The closest thing we have had to innovative and entertaining drama was Life on Mars. That was an amazing programme with a fantastic cast and gripping until its wonderful end. You know it was good as the yanks have remade it.

We have some amazing actors who are forced to either go to the US to make their mark, or appear in yet another version of Pride and Prejudice or Oliver Twist.

It just isnt good enough and quite frankly, our TV should be ashamed.

Poor Michael Owen. We lose 2 strikers (and lame another) and Darren Bent is called up. Michael Owen appears to officially be on the scrap heap. Whilst he claims he is not injury prone, he clearly is these days and those injuries have obviously taken away one of the major factors of his game, his pace. Capello obviously favours pace over finishing, which is fair enough when Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard are in this kind of form, but I would always like Owen in my corner, even if he comes on as a late sub.

If there is one thing that Michael Owen has always done, that's prove people wrong, especially when he is written off.

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Comments about This Article

Dominic West can fuck right off. When the US starts producing quality drama like Rosemary and Thyme, Jonathan Creek and Hetty Wainthrop Investigates then he can start to get all high and mighty. The Wire is good but lacks the gritty realism of The Bill. Style over substance.
Comment By: Frankie Jackson, 31 Mar 2009, Rating: 3/5

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