What irked her on a daily basis was that she was at completely the wrong height to see the TV screen. Inventing The Impossible: The Big Life Fix (BBC2) is, in a way, a tad mislabelled. It doesn’t fix people’s lives. It does, however, fix details of them, in such a way that the effects […]
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Matt Baylis on last night’s TV: Bordering on ridiculous
Hailing as he does from a country whose president is promising to build a wall to keep out the Mexicans, comedian Reginald has his concerns about borders and for a professional funnyman, he was pretty serious about them in this programme. Perhaps it’s time for that, it’s certainly time to stop laughing when a world […]
Matt Baylis on last night’s TV: Love for Chick Magnates
This was sound advice since I never got ill and I never went near the sickly looking bloke who sold spicy chicken wings from a cart on the street corner. If his chicken was iffy, the opposite ought to be said of the high-street chain featured in Nando’s: A Peri Peri Big Success (Channel 5). […]
Matt Baylis on last night’s TV: Saved by a Rich delivery
Rich Hall’s Working For The American Dream (BBC4) was one of many descriptions of the religious, non-religious life of Uncle Sam, focusing, as the title suggested, on their founding myth. Forget nutshells, you can sum up the American Dream in a word and that word is “bootstraps”. Most people lack bootstraps nowadays but everybody gets […]
The harrowing story of Bowe Bergdahl well done by Sean Langan says MATT BAYLIS
GETTY Both Sean and Bowe were abducted by the Taliban, so Sean made a film about him Unfortunately, many a freed prisoner finds new nightmares awaiting them when they return. Coming Home: Bowe Bergdahl versus the United States (BBC4) was a film that many people could have made. Few could have brought what director Sean […]
