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The last human being alive
Weekend's TV reviewed: Ray Mears Goes Walkabout; Greek; The Inspector Lynley MysteriesRay Mears Goes Walkabout begins with a wonderfully ludicrous title sequence, in which honeyed shots of the presenter eating bits of bark and setting fire to twigs a...
Censor sensibility
Julie Walters, who plays Mary Whitehouse this week on BBC2, tells Michael Deacon that there was more to the campaigner than angry rants...We can never know what Mary Whitehouse would have made of the news that Julie Walters is to play her in a film o...
British TV mogul Simon Fuller is the real winner of American Idol
Standing beside a swimming pool overlooking the Los Angeles skyline, the British TV mogul Simon Fuller congratulated the latest American Idol at a private party on Wednesday night — but the real winner was undoubtedly Mr Fuller who, for seven years...
TV starlet ain't half hot mum
The Australian Defence Department is investigating allegations that television celebrity Tania Zaetta had sex with special forces soldiers during a recent tour of war-ravaged Afghanistan. The high-level document says that Zaetta had relations with tr...
The Street gets third BBC series
A third series of Jimmy McGovern's award-winning drama The Street has been commissioned by BBC Fiction boss Jane Tranter. The new series will air on BBC1 in 2009 and further explore the "darker side of human nature", according to the corporation.Made...
