MONDAY
Deal Or No Deal? (Channel 4, 5.00 pm)
Negotiation based game show. Guests Willie Walsh and
Tony Woodley battle it out for control of an airline. Entertaining, but one sided.
Play Your Cards Right! (ITV 3, 7.00 pm). New statistics based game show. With Michael Gove. Nerve wracking watching.
Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC1, 9.00 pm). Biography.
Bob Ainsworth discovers that he really was the useless ineffectual twat we thought he was all along. Predictable.
TUESDAY
Cash In The Attic (BBC1 12.00 pm). Reality.
Jacqui Smith raises money by selling her partner’s dodgy porn, but makes a real killing by claiming her sister’s attic is her main private residence. Watchable, but possibly illegal.
WEDNESDAY
Scrapheap Challenge (Channel 4, 5.25 pm). Documentary. Geoff Hoone and Patricia Hewitt ask if there is life after long careers of being parasitic wastes of space and burdens on the public purse. The answer is: No. Uplifting.
Hotter Than My Daughter (BBC 3, 8.30 pm). Reality. Margaret Becket has set her sights on
a Milliband and Ruth Kelly head heads for Aye Napa in search of a Jesuit toyboy. Disturbing.
Desperate Housewives (Channel 4, 10.00 pm). Comedy drama. Dilemmas this week as
Harriet’s husband Jack wants to be an MP but the safe seat has an all female shortlist, and
Diane wants to send her kid private because but the government has fucked the state schools. Will they compromise their principles? Of course they fucking will. Awful.
THURSDAY
Celebrity Fat Club (ITV1, 7.30 pm). Reality. Things do not go according to plan as a hungry
Diane Abbot roasts and eats fitness instructor, ex US Marine Harvey, but then she herself gets grilled by Andrew Neil. Entertaining but painful to watch.
CSI: Rothbury (Channel 5, 10.00 pm). Long running police drama. This week the police are accused of incompetence. Again. With special guest stars that woman from the
Vicar of Dibley and Paul Gascoigne. Mostly hilarious, but the ending is predictable.
Relocation, Relocation (Channel 4, 8.00 pm). Reality.
Hazel Blears and
Alistair Darling on how to “move” your “main private residence” without actually “moving” at all! With about 200 guest stars. Thought provoking.
FRIDAY
My Name Is (Now) Earl (Sky Biography, various). Interview. The life and times of
Lord Prescunt of Pies and his thoughts on selling out and being a first class hypocritical pie eating tosser. With Andrew Marr. Unintelligible, but at the same time infuriating.
Friends (Channel 4, various). Sitcom. Ed, David,
Ed and Andy are having a private party, but when Diane arrives uninvited, chaos ensues. Mildly amusing and irritating by degrees.
SATURDAYFlog it! (BBC 1 5.05 pm). Reality. George Osborne attempts to plug the black hole in public finances by selling off Wales, and fails, because nobody wants it. Dispiriting.
SUNDAY
Wheel of Fortune (ITV Gold, various). Gameshow. Nicky Campbell shows you how to become a Euro MP and an overnight millionaire in return for doing fuck all. Exasperating.
PICK OF THE WEEK
The Mentalist (Five, Saturday, 10.00 pm).
Biography.
Psychologists look into the mind of
Gordon Brown and speculate. Disturbing.
via our TV, showbiz and entertainment guru, Gildas Monk