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8.5
Great
The Big Breakfast
"Personal favorite"
Funny, great and origonal.
Channel 4 started this programme to be aimed at teenagers, or as labour calls us 'young adults'. The programme was an instant hit.
I always used to watch it, it was pure laughter from the moment i woke up, and i really felt miserable when i realised i'd miss half of it by going to school.

Chris Evans was the perfect host for the show, truely hilarious, but his career has gone dead recently, but now he's on the move up.
Posted Sep 16, 2005 11:14 am PST
9.2
Superb
Spitting Image
"Bring it back!"
Hilarious and ingenious, and yet so challenging to make.
Spitting Image is the origonal version of Dead Ringers, but with the use of puppetry.

The puppets were obviously accompaniecd by the voices like the peoples they were portraying,mocking the politicians of the 1980's and 1990's.

The show always boasts the Margaret Thatcher shot of her walking alone through the house of commons late at night and crying, demanding if it wasn't for this, then the Conservatives would have voted against her, giving her a few more months at leats before they ousted her. Mistake!

They also portrayed John Major as the most boring man in thr country, and highlighted the affair he had had, but not nessessarily with the right woman.
He was always eating peas, demanded to be the most boring vegetable.

The show should definately return, afterall, there's always something to laugh about the New Labour party, John Prescott comes to mind, just laugh, that's all he's there for.
Posted Sep 6, 2005 5:53 am PST
9.3
Superb
The Crystal Maze
"Bring it back!"
A quiz show that even channel 4 could be proud of.
The Crystal maze was an incredible game show, and went even further than a game show. It was one of the best programmes on televsion in its time.

The very recongizable themetune would attract and excite you, the way the contestants had to run through all the strange allyways, through the maze of the game. The strange, but not vulgar reality style games they had to play to get to the money.

The show must have cosdt a fortune to film and run, the set was huge, the money given away was huge,but why was the show axed/ended.

I'm not sure why, maybe ratings fell, maybe Channel 4 could no longer afford to purchase the programme, or maybe the channel 4 executives thought they were dumming down on 'good' television, oh, like Wife Swap, Big Brother and extreme makeover.

I know the show is still aired on sattelite channel Challenge! (TV), but we want it back where we can all watch it, free of the illegal monopoly that is Sky.

Bring it back!!
Posted Sep 6, 2005 5:42 am PST
7.6
Good
Porridge
"Classic"
What a prison to stay in!
A truly enjoyable 1970's comedy based in prison, focusing on the life of Fletcher, who later escapes from the prison in a feature length film version.

Always unexpected laughs from the very beginning and always a pleasure to watch.

Ronnie Barker is a great comedian and this comedy highlighted this, but his comic due Ronnie Corbett was not in the show.

Posted Sep 6, 2005 5:34 am PST
8.5
Great
Born and Bred
"Guilty pleasure"
A nice relaxing drama from the Lancashire moors, that was a favourite Sunday drama for all to watch.
I and my family always enjoyed watching Born and Bred, a popular drama with many supporters. But we were all shocked to find that the writers had decided that the show had made a 'natural ending'.
The show wasn't axed, but purely ended.

Ths show was great from the very firts series, and continued to get better, when Dr.Tom guilder died abroad in New Zealand, i was shocked, and felt that there was more for the character to do, but i did like the replacement of him, and i also enjoyed the ever grumpy Richard Wilson playing a new doctor.

Romance was increasing though in the last series, there was too much sexual language being used, especially before the watershed, and not something you particularly want the children to be questioning what's going on.

Overall good, but it was a mistake to end the show when it was doing so well.
Posted Sep 4, 2005 3:04 am PST
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