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THE COUCH POTATO: Eurovision also-rans are out of this world

‘RANDOM AS YOU LIKE’: Rapping astronauts on Eurovision Semi-Finals

1:01pm Friday 17th May 2013

THE first sign of madness, I often tell myself, is talking to yourself.

THE COUCH POTATO: Wise up, Jessie, before voicing your thoughts

‘NOT HERE TO JUDGE’: Judge Jessie J knows how it feels to feel like a female on stage

1:10pm Friday 3rd May 2013

WHAT do Jessie J and Billy Liar have in common? It’s that they’re both advocates of the theory that if you tell a big lie often enough, people will start to believe it.

THE COUCH POTATO: The Wright Way... but totally wrong direction

THE WRIGHT WAY: The ‘awful’ new sitcom from Ben Elton started this week

12:10pm Friday 26th April 2013

GOOD news, Amanda Holden. It’s taken four years but finally you can be seen out in public again without the shame of having: “Star of worst sitcom ever,” invisibly emblazoned across your forehead.

THE COUCH POTATO: BGT has gone from fabulous to formulaic

JACK CARROLL: Sailing through to the next round

12:30pm Friday 19th April 2013

YOU’D assume, as ruler of his own TV production company, Simon Cowell watches a lot of British television.

THE COUCH POTATO: Coming up: Channel 4’s Paint Drying Live?

WHAT WAS THE POINT? Channel 4’s Easter Eggs Live

1:10pm Friday 5th April 2013

AS ALL-TIME-GREAT April Fools go, television has delivered the most memorable.

THE COUCH POTATO: Live-‘action’ project is just one long yawn

MISSING ITS TARGET AUDIENCE: Jake Humphrey and Tanya Byron host Channel 4’s Bedtime Live

1:20pm Friday 22nd March 2013

THE trailer was enough to hook me in, with this promise from Jake Humphrey: “We’re going live into the nation’s homes to see what you lot get up to at bedtime.”

THE COUCH POTATO: Chinn up – or not: red faces on red carpet

OSCARS GALORE AND NOT A BEARD TO BE SEEN: From left to right, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway and Christopher Waltz with their Oscars

2:42pm Friday 1st March 2013

RARELY is Hollywood’s biggest night of the year an unpredictable affair.

THE COUCH POTATO: No direction for the aimless Brit Awards

GLOBAL SUCCESS STORY: One Direction at the 2013 Brit Awards

1:36pm Friday 22nd February 2013

YOU can imagine the panic, at ITV, in the run-up to Wednesday night’s big pop bash. The network’s unofficial patron Simon Cowell would be there, along with his biggest X Factor success story, One Direction.

THE COUCH POTATO: TV careers feel a chill on freezing red carpet

STAR: BAFTA winner Anne Hathaway

12:36pm Friday 15th February 2013

OUT in the nether reaches of digital TV land, Crime and Investigation Network devoted Sunday evening to wall-to-wall episodes of Curious and Unusual Deaths.

THE COUCH POTATO: Derek, a half-decent show at best of times

DEREK: Ricky Gervais’ character is surplus to the comedy drama’s requirements

3:10pm Friday 1st February 2013

WHENEVER a celebrity becomes too big for their boots, the biggest pitfall is to join the chorus of knee-jerk criticism, for one very good reason.






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