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The Apprentice: season 15, episode 3 recap: "Toys Toys Toys, I'm Looking for a Good Time"

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 20th October 2019

Ooh, a race row, this ought to give the whole thing a much-needed positivity shot in the arm.

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The Apprentice: season 15, episode 2 recap: "Brain Freeze"

TV Feature | Becky Suter | 12th October 2019

This has been a burden on my life for a few years now and I have finally got to the bottom of it. Over the past five years I have been posting a series of false stories to see if they made their way onto The Shiznit. And you know what, they did! The story about the â€˜Fat Daddyâ€™ fitness video fitness video, the story about the incredibly sexist board game and then the story about about the childrenâ€™s party business which nearly killed a woman. Itâ€™s been tough not keeping these to myself and making comments, especially when itâ€™s Edâ€™s turn to write an episode and I think of a good pun for the title. However, I had to. Now I know for certain. I have saved and screenshotted all my original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them. Itâ€™s............your mum.

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The Apprentice: season 15, episode 1 recap: "The Cape of No Hope"

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 6th October 2019

They're all here again, and again, and again. The token posh guy and girl; the cockney salesman who's the most self-aware and grounded but startlingly aggressive whenever he has to sell anyone something; the gold-star recruitment consultants who ironically have no understanding of the sort of personality likely to win over potential employers. I wish they weren't. I wish it would all stop.

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Maybe the real Love Island is the friends we made on the way...

TV Feature | Becky Suter | 29th July 2019

Love. Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love. Every time I say itâ€™s going to be different, I wonâ€™t get in too deep. Donâ€™t fall for it, Becky: itâ€™s infatuation, not love. Empires have fallen, glacial caps have melted and Iâ€™ve been oblivious to it all. Iâ€™ve fallen for the charms of Love Island. I've gone full factor 50.

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Apropos of nothing, let's revisit Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Commentary! - The Musical

TV Feature | Matt Looker | 12th June 2019

Now that films like La La Land and The Greatest Showman are being celebrated for inventing the musical, itâ€™s time to reappraise the best thing to ever come singing out of the Whedonverse. No, not Once More With Feeling. And no, not Dr Horribleâ€™s Sing-Along Blog. Iâ€™m obviously talking about Dr Horribleâ€™s Sing-Along Blog: Commentary! â€“ The Musical. But you knew that already. It's in the title. Come with me on a terribly niche journey...

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Leaving Neverland and our need for chaos

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 8th March 2019

In the summer of 2002 Michael Jackson came to Exeter, my hometown, where I was living again having just finished university. In a series of events that are ludicrous in hindsight, some businessmen had bought Exeter City FC out of administration and installed Uri Geller as a co-chairman. Geller duly brought Jackson and David Blaine down for a public appearance, in which they drove round the pitch in an open-topped car with a load of children.

I didn't go. But I do remember watching it on TV, noting that, despite the hit his image had taken from the Jordy Chandler trial, he was still surrounding himself with children wherever he went. And thinking: "No one in this guy's life ever pulls him aside and says, 'Listen, Mick: maybe ease up on the kids in public, eh?'"

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The Apprentice: season 14, episode 12 recap: "High Nut Content"

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 18th December 2018

It's drawing to its close and we're all better people: informed, educated and entertained. Let's build on this experience and learn to live together in harmony, then burn the world in a big skip.

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The Apprentice: season 14, episode 11 recap: "Pretty Big Deal in Peterborough"

TV Feature | Becky Suter | 13th December 2018

Well, that was a big fuss over nothing. I give a vote of no confidence in delaying The Apprentice by ten minutes and totally messing up my dinner plans. I was hoping to see Theresa May saying "Thank you for the opportunity" before walking out of No.10 with her wheelie suitcase.

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The Apprentice: season 14, episode 10 recap: "Work, Rest and Play"

TV Feature | Becky Suter | 8th December 2018

I feel about Christmas the same way John Oliver feels about New Year: both are like the death of a pet - you know it's coming, but nothing can quite prepare you for how awful it is. The same can be said for the latter stages of The Apprentice.

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The X Factor: season 15, final recap: "Lastly, thanks to Just Eat"

TV Feature | Matthew Horton | 4th December 2018

All good things must come to an end. Complacent, repetitive, nowhere near as vital as they used to be things must come to an end as well. And the TV shows they recap. Sorry, this could go on forever. Speaking of which â€“ it's the X Factor Final!

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