National Union of Journalists official Paul McLaughlin said: “It’s an outrageous decision which calls into question ITV’s commitment to news. It makes it perfectly clear that they have no interest in quality news.
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I’m not a grinch, a party-pooper or a spoilsport. But please let someone on Space Cadets have sufficient nous to spot very quickly that it’s a con and expose it for the mean-spirited, unfunny, egregious show it will be. Because despite being mean-spirited, unfunny and egregious, its worst crime is providing another vehicle for Johnny Vaughan to be on TV.
At the end of the first episode, someone should reveal to him that it’s a big practical joke. Of course they didn’t spend £5m on such a stupid idea, and of course they didn’t employ him to front it.
And then everyone laughs in his face.
As I was setting the video for Lost on E4 last night, I noticed the episode description on the Electronic Programme Guide was somewhat more flippant than usual…
I have discovered a TV show being repeated. It features a lead character called Strange who investigates mysteries with a male sidekick and a female friend. It only ran for one series but was well-received and is really rather good. So I’m clearly not talking about risible Saturdatynight BBC serial Strange. Did you see what I did?
This show, from way back in 1968, is called The Strange Report and starred Anthony Quayle as criminologist Adam Strange with Anneke Wills, fresh from Doctor Who, as one of his small gang of crime solvers. Quayle’s character isn’t massively charismatic, action scenes are few and far between and the dialogue isn’t showy, but it’s tremendously watchable. It was so successful that the second series was to be made in the US; when the cast rejected the idea of spending months abroad, the show was axed.
So now you know. Set your telly box to ITV4 at 6pm on Sunday.
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