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Top 10 TV shows of 2015

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 3rd January 2016

I almost did it. Almost went my first Christmas period for five years without having to think about the end-of-year list. But then I thought of you, who is reading this now, and even though statistically you most likely are either my mother or the Googlebot spider, I decided I couldn't let you down. Also I'm on hold to TalkTalk and have nothing else to fill the time.

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DVD weekly: mods, paramedics and alcoholics

TV Feature | Ed Williamson, Kirsty Harrison | 12th March 2012

In summary: it's OK for dramas and even stand-up comedians to be bleak, but it's not OK for comedies to be unfunny. Even if they would rather call themselves 'dramedies'.

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This is England '88 looks like wonderful misery-fest again

TV Video | Ed Williamson | 3rd December 2011

Remember This is England '86? Well it turns out that, two years on, this was still England. Despite the widespread calls at the time to change the country's name to 'Diego Maradona Must Die'.

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