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    TV review: John Le Mesurier: It’s All Been Rather Lovely

    John Le Mesurier never did anything as vulgar as showing his feelings, but he was always remarkably English This is how John Le Mesurier, ideal known as Sergeant Wilson in Dad’s Army, proposed to Joan Malin, his second wife. “Well, I do not suppose you’d take me on, would you?” She completely missed what he was speaking about. “I’d no idea!” she recalls. It was only when he mentioned to a friend that she had turned him down that she realised (and later accepted). It was all of a piece with the man and the actor, lovingly remembered on John ...

    Being Elmo – review

    If you are looking for a tale of a dysfunctional puppet-handler, Constance Marks’s inspiring look at a Sesame Street icon is not it With the Muppets melting hearts all over again on the huge screen, it is a nice moment for this sweet-natured documentary about Kevin Clash, the puppeteer regarded as dauphin to the late Jim Henson; Clash is the man who created the much-loved Elmo character on Sesame Street, a wacky figure whose celeb importance is such that he is described here as the Brad Pitt for five-year-olds.

    The Apprentice: live blogged

    This week the teams head to Scotland to create gourmet mobile food outlets. But who will appeal to Lord Sugar’s palate? Good evening, and welcome to The Apprentice Week 6 Liveblog! Tonight our teams are selling gourmet street food in Edinburgh. This requires some level of understanding of “gourmet”, “street food” and “Edinburgh”, so anticipate paper cones filled with overpriced, dribbly muck, dished up with a side order of deep-fried cultural stereotypes and a garnish of cringe. I’ll be here from 9pm asking such important questions as “are the Scots fond of their children?” whilst Apprentice superfan Ladyribenaberet scours the ...

    TV review: Hidden Talent

    Hidden Talent reveals the pure joy of watching people be good at things I think Hidden Talent (Channel 4) may turn out to be a rare – possibly unique – instance in which a programme started out as a high concept in a meeting room, and then ended up being much much better than the idea. So this is the concept: the public adores talent shows, right? In the past, we might have thought that perhaps what they really like is the theater of cruelty, and the word “talent” is just a good way to smoke out egomaniacs without any.

    Review: Great British Menu; The Little Paris Kitchen

    It’s Colin’s quail in the woods against Charlie’s wild rabbit in the Olympic chefs’ race ‘Is this a gold medal dish?” asked judge Nigel Haworth on Olympic-themed Great British Menu (BBC2). No, it’s a go home in tears of shame after being disqualified in the heats dish. It’s a fork into the bin and let’s never talk of it again dish. Colin McGurran was preparing a starter called Quail in the Woods. The name alone gives me nightmares. I imagine a quail, its knees knocking in a bluebell dell before being stomped into ex-quailhood by dead-eyed Jessica Ennis and Mo ...

    Game of Thrones: season two, episode four – Garden of Bones

    The full brutality of war is rammed home – but is it a weapon, vengeance or just a game? Spoiler alert: Don’t read on unless you have watched the fourth episode of Game of Thrones season two. For the purposes of this blog we are also going to (hopefully) avoid book spoilers. Sarah Hughes’s episode three blog “I have no desire to sit on the Iron Throne” We’ve heard a great deal about war in the past three weeks. Now, in some of the most brutal scenes this dark-hearted show has screened, we were finally shown its cost – and ...

    David Starkey: ‘I can be a bit harsh’

    When Rachel Cooke went to meet historian David Starkey, often called the rudest man in Britain, she expected it to be war. But that was before she started laughing at his tales of a first date in the Beaver’s Retreat In the afternoon of 3 June, the Queen will mark her diamond jubilee by sailing the Thames from Hammersmith to the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich aboard the royal barge, the Spirit of Chartwell. In her wake will travel a flotilla of 1,000 boats decorated in streamers and flags, their crews resplendent in their finest rigs.

    The Saturday interview: Professor Mary Beard

    With her new TV series about the lives of ordinary Romans, Professor Mary Beard wants to tackle history differently. The nation’s new favourite classicist speaks to Stuart Jeffries “I’m trending on Twitter,” states the professor of classics at Cambridge as we walk to the departure lounge at Heathrow’s terminal five. But it’s not all good news. One reason Mary Beard’s trending is that some viewers have been unpleasant about what she looks like on Meet the Romans, her three-part BBC2 TV series that started on Tuesday.

    TV review: Grandma’s House; Louis Theroux – Extreme Love

    Grandma’s House is a dark, smart, Jewish comedy – family sitcom for our age Simon Amstell wakes up with another body in his bed – a single airbed because this is grandma’s house and, in fact, Grandma’s House (BBC2). The body, which appears to be alive, belongs to a boy. Simon’s gay! That’s sooo disappointing, though to be honest I had my suspicions (something about the way he has always stated he is). Not disappointing because he is gay – come on, who do you think I am? Disappointing because it means he will never marry Stella Tennant.

    Dick Clark, Bandstand leader | Kevin Powell

    For four decades, Clark was not just the clean-cut face but the power-broker of American pop music. And he was a gentleman Dick Clark, who has died suddenly at the age of 82, was like a family member to Americans of all backgrounds – thanks both to his long-running dance show “American Bandstand”, and because of his annual New Year’s Eve telecasts. We watched him, from when I was a child sitting with my mother, as Clark’s rock’n’roll specials replayed the great hits of the 1950s and 1960s: Chubby Checker, Dion and the Belmonts, Danny and the Juniors, Fabian … ...