All articles by Liz Hamson – Page 4
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Comment & Opinion
Expensive disasters and Jamie at his best
It was bad enough to be confronted on Monday by a heap of Christmas shopping-inflated credit card statements on the doormat.
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Comment & Opinion
Swanky gigs for swollen bods
Much as I love Crawley, once in a while I can’t help feeling jealous of some of the gigs these TV bods get
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Comment & Opinion
Lose yourself in some foodie escapsim
When the state of the economy is this relentlessly depressing, it’s nice to be able to lose yourself in some unashamedly escapist foodie TV
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on an hour of landfill TV
What a load of rubbish! No, I’m not referring to the 44 million tonnes of waste that gets sent to landfill every year in this country.
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on a balls-up at the Bake Off
Food porn? Pah. Why have that when you can have the real thing? The finale of The Great British Bake Off (9.30pm, BBC2, Tuesday 4 October) didn’t just boast lingering shots of winner Jo Wheatley’s white chocolate and raspberry pistachio meringues….
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Critical Eye... on winsome whippets and purloined Swiss roll
The downturn has turned us into a nation of escapism artists! If we’re not getting deliriously excited about the latest style over substance, high-concept movie (go on, watch Inception a second time it really isn’t as good as you remembered),…
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Comment & OpinionReal food so bad it's not even good
You know how some things are so bad they’re good? Real Food Family Cook Off (7.30pm, Channel 5, Tuesday 20 September) couldn’t even claim that. Unlike its Channel 5 predecessor, the Jean-Christophe Novelli-fronted Family Food Fight with Flora,…
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on creaky wheels and old-age ballet
They're back and this time they mean business! Having eschewed the campaigning trail for more celebratory, comfort food (and comfort TV) fare, The Hairy Bikers have decided to do a Huge Furry Wittering-Balls, without the wittering... or balls, and...
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News
Critical Eye... goes off its trolley for an unfunny sitcom
Trollied? I wish I had been when I watched the first couple of episodes of the much-hyped new supermarket sitcom (9pm, Sky 1, 4 August). It was so... unfunny. I can't believe it was the pick of the day in some TV schedules!
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on the phenomenalicious Thomasina
Damn that Thomasina Miers. Damn her. I've been trying (and failing, mostly) to stick to a healthy diet recently. I'm religiously eating a grapefruit a day it worked for Natalie Portman's character in Black Swan, although I'm guessing she didn't...
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Critical Eye... on hackers, fakers and premium rip-offs
The phone-hacking affair has probably desensitised most of us to the casual depravity people are capable of in the pursuit of wealth and position. But few who watched Fake Britain (Bogus Booze, BBC1, 7.30pm, 18 July) could have felt inured to the...
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Comment & OpinionBiggest drinks brands survey shows nation is falling out of love with wine
Have you noticed how patriotic we’ve all suddenly become? Since the Royal Wedding, there’s been an upswell of national pride of the like not seen since, well, the Royal Wedding.
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Comment & Opinion
Advertisers let off the hook by News of the World's swift demise
Blimey, what a day! Just a few short hours ago, we were questioning how many retailers would follow The Co-op’s lead in pulling advertising from the News of the World.
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on the size of a cow
I've never much liked Julia Bradbury. I can't put my finger on precisely why. I think it's the suspicion she tries too hard. Everything about her is a bit over-cooked the jaunty head girl demeanour, assertive voice, ready smile, trendy country...
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... inspecting the Thanet timewarp
Given the paucity of new concepts on TV, it was only a matter of time before Channel 5 wheeled out a sibling to The Hotel Inspector, and so it was this week as The Restaurant Inspector hit our screens (10pm, 6 June). Picking up where Ramsay's...
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News
Critical Eye... on the superbrand of Alex Riley
Would someone please stop allowing that moron Alex Riley on the TV? This week, he wrapped up his series on the Secrets of the Superbrands (8pm, BBC3, 31 May) by asking why the global population is so in thrall to brands like Coke.
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on Ramsay's limp following
If you watched Gordon's Great Escape (9pm, C4, Monday 23 May) you were in the minority. Apparently fewer than a million people tuned in to the first episode, which says a lot about the nation's questionable taste in TV.
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on Jamie's plastic-wrapped hubris
Oh the hubris of the man! Having hacked off the good people of Huntington, West Virginia, Oliver has now taken his food revolution to La La Land (Jamie's Food Revolution Hits Hollywood, 10pm, C4, 17 May) la la la ironically being the very sound I...
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News
Critical Eye... on Unilever's murky past
It's astonishing how even the biggest companies can make such elementary mistakes. And the blunders featured in Business Nightmares with Evan Davis (8pm, BBC2, 9 May) may have been golden oldies, but they still resonate down the years.
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Critical Eye... on pigeons, jewels and jockstraps
Britain's Next Big Thing (8pm, BBC2, 12 March) is ostensibly out to identify the star suppliers of the future. But, refreshingly, it thrusts the spotlight as much on the buyers, and this week, from London emporium Liberty, one in particular ...