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Review: After Life is not deft enough to avoid causing friendly fire

TV Review | Ed Williamson | 22nd March 2019

To promote his new Netflix show After Life, Ricky Gervais is out doing the podcast rounds, and telling anyone who'll listen why people who are offended by any of his jokes must have misunderstood them. He's probably right in some cases. But what he never considers, or at least never acknowledges, is that if a lot of people are misunderstanding your jokes, maybe it's because you aren't skilled enough at delivering them.

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Aaron Paul bloody loves Derek for some reason

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 6th June 2014

This is despite the self-evident fact that it is an awful, cloying mess which paws guilelessly at your tear ducts like a baby ape trying to coax milk from an unyielding teat.

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Muppets Most Wanted

Movie Review | Rob Young | 25th March 2014

As the jovial opening number points out, the Muppets are back, by popular demand. Because that's what they do in Hollywood, even if everybody knows the sequel's never quite as good. Nevertheless, the studio considers them a viable franchise. The tune, happily poking fun at Hollywood's fascination with sequels, is just one of the many self-depreciating, self-aware gags that litter this sequel.

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Some casting suggestions for Game of Thrones

TV Feature | Iain Robertson | 6th March 2014

Game of Thrones returns for its fourth season in April and, frankly, I can't wait. Despite this very website placing it a measly 16th in its list of top TV shows last year, it's easily the best thing on TV. (The list was topped by something called "Breaking Bad" which, although sounding very interesting, hasn't got dragons or naked fire priestesses in it, so fuck knows how that's meant to be better.)

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Quiz: On The Road poster quote or David Brent philosophy?

Movie Feature | Ali | 27th April 2012

I'll admit, straight out of the gate: Jack Kerouac's On The Road is not one of the one-and-a-half books I have read. However, I don't think you need to be a 'reader' to recognise that the movie's poster quotes this far are frightfully pretentious and really quite naff. In fact, they could easily be confused with the words of homespun wisdom regularly dispensed by Wernham-Hogg regional manager, David Brent. Let's play a game!

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Derek teasers: give me a minute to decide if I'm morally outraged

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 7th April 2012

Welcome to my moral quandary. Is Ricky Gervais mocking the disabled? And if I decide he is, what do I do when I inevitably laugh at it?

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DVD weekly: doctors, vicars and simpletons

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 21st November 2011

"What if God was one of us?" asked Joan Osborne. Well, he'd probably want to know what DVDs were out this week, because it's coming up to Christmas and his son's getting to that age where he's a bit too old for toys and starting to take an interest in more grown-up pursuits, like DVD boxset marathons and judging the wicked. Newsflash for you, big guy: I wouldn't splash out on an Easter egg for him.

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Watch Johnny Depp on Life's Too Short a week after everyone else

TV Video | Ed Williamson | 2nd November 2011

Nope: still not bored of Life's Too Short preview clips.

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DVD weekly: we are the BBC and we must have your money

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 24th October 2011

It's time for more spurious assumptions about the week's DVD releases with little or no basis in researched fact. Hey, someone's got to do it. Whether or not it should be us is another matter.

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Oh yeah, the Emmys happened, didn't they?

TV News | Ed Williamson | 22nd September 2011

And they're like the biggest awards thing in TV, right? And what is it we do on this website again? Shit, it's TV, isn't it? Don't suppose you could let this one slide?

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