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Yellowstone review
YELLOWSTONE, the very name conjures images of an unspoilt wilderness, of a land shaped by earth's pimordial forces, yet as the subject of a natural history programme, it's been sadly overlooked until now that is. Yellowstone, a three-part series d...
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Battles BC by Steve West
History Channel's Battles BC Premieres This Monday I remember growing up and watching the Discovery Channel and TLC's takes on history. The reenactments were cool for a kid, and hid the fact I was learning a few things. With the popularity of Zack...
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The Genius of Photography: review
Although this 6-part, TV series for BBC starts by pondering the differences between reality and photography it rapidly shifts to declare that photography has the power to delight, serve, outrage, move and disappoint us but has mainly intrigued us...
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The Shape of Life
The National Geographic and PBS documentary series The Shape of Life sets off on an ambitious task: to trace back the origins of animals to the very beginnings of life on earth, and to follow the earliest animals step by step as they evolve into n...
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Hyperspace (also know as Space)
This series explains in a very graphic way, and in layman terms, the universe from its inception with the so-called Big Bang through to the future.
Some of the conclusions drawn, and indeed the questions left unanswered, are slightly disturbing: th...
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Inside Hamas
Hatred is tedious. There are only so many times you can see an explosion followed by retaliatory gunfire and miscellaneous carnage without experiencing empathy fatigue. To the credit of director Rodrigo Vazquez, this is no formula style exploratio...
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After Rome : Holy War and Conquest
"Ironically, as a Labour voter, I found this programme to be far too liberal and multiculturalist. Just not Tory enough!! It also reeks somewhat of Oxford classicist anti-Christianity, which to my mind is completely antithetical to Toryism. After ...
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Ross's Return
Former EastEnders hardman Ross Kemp has returned to Afghanistan to film a follow up to a documentary series screened earlier this year.
The actor spent time with the 1st Battalion of the British Army's Royal Anglian Regiment in Afghanistan's Helman...
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Like Father, like daughter...
"Two FBI agents arrive at a local police station in the desert to investigate a series of murders." I think this is Jennifer Lynch's first movie as director since Boxing Helena(1993), with a 15 year break from directing she has come back with one ...
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Laugh out loud
This has to be one of the most entertaining shows on TV at the moment, in my humble opinion. No other show makes me laugh like this, if like me your tired of seeing the world through "murdoch" filtered glasses then this makes a nice jovial alterna...
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