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Christine Klabacher
A-VOID THE 'REALITY' DREGS
I KNOW just how Rose Tyler feels, after the weekend's viewing made me feel like I was in a parallel universe, too.
SLOW BOAT TO CHINA FOR JACK
THE dreaded name Kim was uttered, just as Jack Bauer had saved the world again in this season's finale of 24 (Sky One), and you just knew that more trouble was around the corner!
THE END OF A PERFECT DAY
THE end of another action-packed day is in sight for Jack Bauer in '24' (Sky One), with the final two episodes of this series being shown on Sunday.
ROMANCING THE STONE
THE course of true love never did run smoothly, but most people don't end up with their sweetheart talking to them from the confines of a paving stone.
LUCY SORTS IT WITH X-FACTOR
SHE had to suffer Pauline Fowler as her mother-in-law in EastEnders and endure a stormy on-off relationship with co-star Steve 'Doughboy' McFadden in real life. It was about time something nice happened to Lucy Benjamin.
LEFT HIGH AND DRY BY TRIANGLE TALK
CONFUSED? I certainly was by my viewing choices over the bank holiday weekend.
MORE THAN A DOORSTEP CHALLENGE FOR DAZ
SO Daz failed to clean up at The Eurovision Song Contest (BBC1, Saturday), while the heavy metal Orcs from Finland came, saw and conquered. As my brother said later: "It was a contest that got the winner it deserved."
LESS IS MORE IN MOORS MASTERPIECE
IT'S a big leap from Twinkle to Myra Hindley, but actress Maxine Peake certainly cooked up a credible portrayal of the woman reviled as a murderous monster for the past 40 years in See No Evil: The Moors Murders (ITV1, Monday and Tuesday).
DOOM, GLOOM AND A BIG BOOM
IF you weren't depressed before you started watching Krakatoa: The Last Days (BBC1) on Sunday night, you were by the end.
TOP DOGS WITH NEW TRICKS
I MAY be barking mad, but I'm starting to believe that in some small corner of this sceptred isle Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Dennis Waterman and Amanda Redman are living a parallel life tackling unsolved crimes as Brian, Jack, Gerry and Sandra.
ANIMAL MAGIC FOR THE DOCTOR
WITH cat nuns in the first episode and a werewolf in the second, this series of Doctor Who will soon be going to the dogs!
STREWTH, IT'S ROUGH DOWN UNDER!
SEND for the cat nuns - I've developed a terrible case of seasickness.
WEEBLES WOBBLE - AND SO DOES POIROT
IS it my imagination or has David Suchet's Poirot turned into a Belgian Weeble?
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Alison Klabacher
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NO wonder Shelley wants to leave Weatherfield.
THE sight of Tracy Barlow lunging over a bar towards you would surely be too much for anybody to take (Coronation Street).
Can you Believe it?
WHAT with all the death, drama, secrets and lies in soapland, it is no wonder that characters go searching for something to believe in, and if ever there was a bonkers storyline for scriptwriters to be creative with, it's that of the wicked cult.
DON'T GO, CHARLIE!
IT'S a sad week for soap as news breaks that Bill Ward, otherwise known as Coronation Street's bad boy Charlie Stubbs, has decided to quit.
Tea break quiz
1. Why was Kareena Ferreira's relationship with Tariq Larousi doomed? (Eastenders)
Tea break quiz
Name the children of these soap mums
Donna defies the Dingle court
HEROINE of the week has to be Donna, who defied the Dingle court, which is either all-powerful or utterly ridiculous depending on how you look at it. I mean, for God's sake, who are these people (Emmerdale)?
Tea break quiz
What do the following soap characters have in common?
The great transformation of Jake Dean
THERE were tears, punches flew, people were shocked, and there was even a little bit of comedy as Becca and Jake's affair was exposed (Hollyoaks).
Tea break quiz
What's the connection between these soap characters?
David's a troubled soul
SO, troubled soul David was behind the Hillman cards after all (Coronation Street).
Tea break quiz
1. What is Angela Harris in prison for? (Coronation Street)
David's got blood on his hands - but is he the mystery writer?
"I BET you know the activities of all the walk-in wardrobes in the street!" exclaimed Norris, after finding Rita hiding among his clothes.
Tea break quiz
1. Name Ken Barlow's three wives (Coronation Street)
Is Ben a head-spinner?
AFTER haranguing Ben all week, unstable mother Little Mo returned to work and fell to pieces when she dropped a mixer bottle (shock, horror!)
Tea break quiz
1. What was the name of Charlie Slater's wife - and how did she die? (Eastenders)
Alison Klabacher
SO, nice guy Dan has got a skeleton in his closet after all (Home and Away).
Who is behind the Hillman cards?
Is it devil child David? Richard Hillman himself, risen from the dead? A relative, or, more specifically and in comedy Sunset Beach style, his evil twin?
Dawn has her day in court
A BLAZING row sparks a blaze of another kind in the Emmerdale vicarage on Friday.
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DVD reviews
Capote (Cert 15)
Helen Cartwright
Alien Autopsy (Cert 12A)
Vicki Stockman
March of the Penguins (Cert U)
Steven Hallmark
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