Summary
So, I think on balance, does Mike Bassett -- Manager (ITV, Thursday), if only for its brilliant pastiche of a 1950s Pathé News cup final report, all flickering black-andwhite, baggy shorts and the camera missing the only goal. 'Cover your ears, ref, ' says the jovial commentator in an upper-class voice riper than Henry Blofeld's, 'someone just called you a "ninny"!' This is as far from Footballers' Wives as it's possible to be.
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Uphill Struggle
I tried hard to love Elizabeth I (Channel 4, Thursday) because such work and effort had gone into it, but it was an uphill job.
The opening scene, of a doctor examining our heroine's vagina, was no doubt meant to be challenging and attention-gr...See the full content of this document
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