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TV OD

The weekly TV column from the Guardian Guide
  • Looking

    Looking: it's Girls with boys

    'Some scenes are so mortifying, and so long, it's hard not to hide behind both hands until he's stopped talking'

  • Helix

    Helix: as daft as a virus-infected brush

    TVOD: The new drama from the people who brought you Battlestar Galactica is all a little bit silly

  • Reflex

    Reflex, the TV gameshow where time stands still

    'Where The Cube is austere and intimidating, Reflex borrows Total Wipeout's slapstick shtick'

  • Terry Wogan

    The soothing pleasure of Secrets of the Body Clock with Terry Wogan

    It may lack impact, but Wogan's dulcet tones reveal the secrets of a gentle slumber while easing you into one in BBC1's latest science documentary, writes Julia Raeside

  • Nigel Slater

    Nigel Slater's Great British Biscuit goes well with a nice cuppa

    Any pretence of historical heft gives way to "two grown men talking excitedly about their favourite biscuits", writes Sam Bain

  • derren brown

    Derren Brown's Great Art Robbery: making embezzlers out of our elders

    No trickery, no mind control – this time Derren's just schooling a group of pensioners in the art of grand larceny

  • Abraham prepares to sacrifice Isaac

    Channel 5's The Bible is like a CGI missionary drive

    It's the television equivalent of a religious pamphlet thrust on you by a benevolent creep, but with lower production values, writes Filipa Jodelka

  • My Crazy Obsession

    My Crazy Obsession: how many toy rabbits is too many?

    'For those who'd seen all this and thought "let's visit these weirdos", Candace and Steve have a trump card: they freeze dry all their deceased pet rabbits'

  • Birgitte Nyborg in Borgen

    Borgen: Birgitte is back to get the party started

    The third and final series of the Danish political drama takes aim at mainstream party politics

  • Snow, Sex and Suspicious Parents

    Snow, Sex And Suspicious Parents: BBC3's popular teensploitation series gets an Alpine twist

    The antics of these junior Brits abroad aren't funny or outrageous – they're just another example of the rugby-fication of Britain

  • Naomi Campbell, Caroline Winberg and Erin O'Connor.

    The Face makes a cruel sport of running in heels

    Sky Living's new reality show forces aspiring models to confront their worst nightmare: a pissed-off Naomi Campbell

  • Release The Hounds

    Release The Hounds: ITV's Halloween game show could do with more dogs

    The contestants gag and squeal at the merest hint of gunk, leaving you with the impression they'd have the same response walking down the Halloween aisle in Asda

  • Iceland Foods CEO Malcolm Walker

    Iceland: Life In The Freezer Cabinet - yet more real-life TV from the BBC

    Andrew Collins: This is actually a fair-minded, democratic and only quasi-promotional snapshot of Iceland's working life – yawn

  • Downton Abbey

    Downton Abbey: a cosy pocket of sameness

    As the series reaches its midpoint a quick appraisal of the boot-lickers belowstairs, the hapless toffs above and the arch bastards all over the place

  • Masters Of Sex

    Masters of Sex: Michael Sheen is back as a 1950s love guru

    Rhik Samadder: "He's the alpha dog of coochie medicine," one secretary purrs to another, as if reading the liner notes on a Lil Wayne album'

  • The Blacklist

    The Blacklist: Sky's new US import has James Spader channelling Lecter

    There's more than a hint of The Silence Of The Lambs to this slickly entertaining supervillain-meets-ingenue drama

  • London Irish

    London Irish, the sick-com that's too try-hard to genuinely shock

    Being Human writer Lisa McGee's latest, A Clockwork Orange in the style of Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps, feels spectacularly misjudged

  • Paula Yates and Jools Holland.

    Rewind The Tube back to a time when music TV was edgy

    Mark Jones: This documentary shows that even the weaker Tube moments are preferable to the hapless hackwork of the expensive haircuts dominating youth TV today

  • Naked And Afraid

    Naked And Afraid, where adversity brings out the worst in people

    Here the contestants are constantly passing out, vomiting or dying of an unnecessarily graphic infection

  • keyhole

    Whatever you do, don't peer Through The Keyhole

    Keith Lemon's new take on the classic formula is the worst kind of garish, self-congratulatory Saturday night TV guff
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