tellyjelly

Eastenders: 25 August 2009

Only seconds after Gary punched Phil, and after the credits started rolling, we find out that Gary (or rather the guy who plays him) is going to be in this year's Strictly Come Dancing. So the question is, does Gary leave the soap the usual way, in a taxi, or, more likely considering he has just hit Phil, in an ambulance? I hope it is the former as actors from Eastenders don't tend to last long when it comes to Strictly  - remember Phil Daniels, Gillian Taylforth and probably lots more - and will need to be back by October at the latest.

The One Show: 18 August 2009

Over the past few weeks there has been a mini-furore over the sacking of Arlene Philips as a judge on Strictly Come Dancing. Media types have been arguing that we are often allowed to see older male presenters with younger female presenters but the converse is hardly ever shown (older female/younger male). So, imagine my surprise last night on flicking over to The One Show when Emmerdale was getting a bit boring and seeing Gloria Hunniford sat alongside Gethin Jones. The surprise wasn't that Emmerdale was getting a bit boring, nor was it that Adrian Chiles has gone on holiday. The shocker was that Gloria is older than Gethin, and I'm absolutely outraged that this has been aired on tv especially as it was pre-watershed.

Outraged of Tunbridge Wells

Big Brother: Nominations, 19 August 2009

This week's nominations could be the ones you have been waiting for ... not quite all your life, perhaps, it just feels like it. In alphabetical order, you can choose from Bea, David or Marcus and I'm guessing the price for Bea being evicted - at the bookies, that is - isn't worth taking. At least she'll get the chance to talk to her mum soon.

Big Brother: Eviction Night, 14 August 2009

In last night's Big Brother Freddie was shown the door by the undeserving public (undeserving now he's back in our good books) and Bea has at least a week left to feel smug about the way she has treated him. After that, she might regret ever having entered the house because it looks and sounds as though there aren't many on her side. 

Big Brother: Nominations, 11 August 2009

Freddie and Marcus have been nominated for eviction this week and Bea would be counting her lucky stars if she thought her great escape had anything to do with luck. As entertaining as Marcus has been, here's hoping Freddie survives as he has gone from hero to zero to hero again in this past two weeks and his new found distance from Bea has proven to be his saving grace.

Coronation Street: 10 Aug 2009

Poor old Junkie Joe. If his life wasn't hard enough living with David, living with Gail, and always being on the verge of bankruptcy, he's now addicted to painkillers. Cynics may say that this addiction came about extraordinarily quickly, as one minute he had a bad back and seemingly only seconds later David was extorting favours in return for the odd tablet. This should be a lesson to us all, though, that is if we live our lives according to a soap opera, and so remember to never succumb to blackmail from David and take the doctor's advice rather than smash his alarm system with a sledge hammer.

Big Brother: Eviction Night, 7 August 2009

Of all the nights, and of all the possible evictees (meaning all the housemates), Hira was given the boot. The great swindler that is the company that owns Big Brother decided to make us all pay through the nose to get a fair result, and Hira came a cropper because of this. Making us vote to save rather than evict is yet another sign of the cynicism of Endemol - and at least we know for sure, if we were ever in doubt, the viewers are held in as much contempt as the contestants.

Big Brother: 6 Aug 2009

A week's a long time in politics and in the Big Brother house it's a lifetime. Aah, remember the halcyon days when we felt sorry for Freddie and were charmed by his eccentricities. Over this past week, though, he's been referred to as Halfwit in the Tellyjelly house as the viewers have had to witness him swapping roles and his zero to hero status with Lisa. It wasn't a pretty sight watching him (as she says) laugh in her face and we can't help wondering if this will tell in the eviction process tonight.   

Big Brother: Nominations, 4 Aug 2009

The producers of Big Brother seem to be intent on running it into the ground this year. The first week was ruined when they made the housemates earn their status. They then brought in two supposed boyfriends of two largely unpopular housemates, and thought we'd interested. To top it all, they have just put everybody up for eviction because Siavash and Marcus have been deemed to have broken the rules. Well, just putting the housemates up for eviction wouldn't have been too bad, as we could still vote to evict the one on the hitlist this week (Bea perhaps?) but instead the viewers have to vote, and spend more money, to save their favourites.

Big Brother: Eviction, 31 July 2009

It's perhaps no surprise that Noirin was asked to leave. It was more of a shocker that the 'love of her life', Daddy Isaac, followed her out not long after and was last seen on Big Brother's Big Mouth being what we already know is his usual affable self.