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Too Much Mole

By | May 16, 2024

The latest Flemish series is just about finished (bar the reunion on Sunday, which is always entertaining) and normally that’s the end of Mole season for the year and although it’s probably not quite a top three season for me there has certainly been a lot of Sicilian based messing around and some fantastic and… Read More »

Dead Chiffres et Dead Lettres

By | May 5, 2024

It’s being reported in the French press that Des Chiffres et Des Lettres is finally being put to pasture (or out of its misery depending on your point of view) after fifty years. That’s really not bad going considering it’s basically spent the last twenty years of its existence fighting to stay on the screen,… Read More »

This is quite a boring week

By | April 29, 2024

Next week you’ve got The Finish Line series two (BBC1 weekdaily), Double the Money (C4 Thursday), I Kissed A Girl (BBC3 (Sunday), a week of Beat the Chasers (ITV1 weeknightly) and of course The Eurovision Song Contest (BBC1, Tues/Thurs/Sat). This week: Na-da. Nothing. Same old. So here’s a regular feature from the Discord, some BARB… Read More »

Don’t Hate The Player

By | April 21, 2024

Over the weekend we’ve ended up watching all four eps of Adventure Line’s new French Netflix reality show Don’t Hate The Player (Mauvais Joueurs – Bad Players – in French). In it, a cast of 13 players hosted by Claude off of Koh-Lanta travel to Mexico to take part in a “social experiment”, one winner… Read More »