Take 10
Each week Anna Pickard takes 10 examples of TV concepts and puts them in a completely arbitrary order for your delectation
Take 10: Unfair endings
Anna Pickard: Sometimes, events don't turn out the way we expect or want them to. What are your best/worst unsatisfactory endings?
Take 10: Cute TV-animal attacks!
Anna Pickard: What would happen if Gentle Ben, Lassie and Elmo went on the rampage?
Take 10: Celebrities to be trapped in a lift with
Anna Pickard: You're confined to a broken elevator. Which TV stars would you like for company?
Take 10: Made-up TV websites
Anna Pickard: Let's salute the sites that dramas use to look authentic
Take 10: Great Scots
Anna Pickard: We need your help in compiling a list of cracking Scottish telly in honour of Robert Burns
Take 10 series that would fail without the bad guys
Anna Pickard: These shows would be toothless without a baddie. Imagine American Idol without Simon Cowell ...
Take 10 ... Pantomime villains
Anna Pickard: What better way to celebrate the season of goodwill by asking, who are TV's most theatrical evildoers?
Take 10: Shows that should feature Oliver Postgate characters
Anna Pickard: I know hundreds of articles have been filed about the death of Oliver Postgate, but he deserves at least one more
Take 10: Tasty television birds
Anna Pickard: Thanksgiving in America has got me thinking. Specifically, about which feathered televisual friend I'd like to cook and eat
Take 10: John but not forgotten
Anna Pickard: To mark the tragic loss of John Sergeant from our screens, this week's list is packed with Johns who are sadly missed
Take 10: 'US place-name shows' remade for the UK
Anna Pickard: If American shows that name-check glamorous locations in their titles were remade in the UK (or other non-US place) - what would they be called?
Take 10: Television Halloween costumes
Anna Pickard: Off to a pop-culture-friendly Halloween party and don't know what to wear? Don't despair!
Take 10: People who would get elected
Anna Pickard: To give the US elections a much-needed media boost, this week we look at the TV personalities we'd happily vote into office
Take 10: Stupid, er 'specialest', sidekicks
In celebration of Blackadder and Baldrick's silver wedding anniversary (or something), we doff our caps and bow low to the stupidest sidekicks of them all
Take 10: TV remakes
Anna Pickard: Whichever way you look at it, there's a lot - and not just remakes but reimaginings, resurrections and reincarnations
Take 10: Will-they won't-theys
Anna Pickard: So as Pulling is pulled (aha), let's reflect on all those on-off-on-off tense TV romances that kept us completely hooked
Take 10: Shows that require modes of transport to make any sense
Anna Pickard: Knight Rider is coming back. Oh yes. Which set me thinking, what other TV shows are there that would fare badly without a means of transport to prop up the plot?
Take 10: TV shows that involve numbers
This week, for 1 thing, we delve into numerology, 2 construct a numb3red list of shows, 4 which integers are integral in some way. High 5!
Take 10: Novel ideas for television
The BBC's daring new plan to adapt a classic novel for the screen has prompted me to dig out some other rare examples of the form
Take 11: Odd critters masquerading as animals
Spare a thought for those creatures who aren't, quite, not really, from cute little moon mice to disembodied heads. But which unclassifiable "thing" do you like best?
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