In January 2011, I wrote these words about Phillip Schofield: “ This creep has been getting away with his nice guy act for years, but every now and then the mask slips and you spot the satanic intensity in his eyes. It’s morphed into The Voice plus sob stories, imported speciality acts, and really diabolical turns.

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AVENGERS heroes Wanda Maximoff and Vision have resurfaced as newly-weds in an old black and white sitcom in Disney’s WandaVision. Change the ‘get’ to ‘keep’, and ‘into power’ to ‘in power’ and that quote is as relevant now as it was then. Keeping kids at school longer won’t make a pinch of difference if teachers and their teaching methods are dodgy.

Four women brewery workers take revenge on Jack, their coked-up dick of a boss, only for him to be mysteriously murdered.

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The BBC using the Irish tricolour to represent Northern Ireland at the big Jubilee show – surely deliberate. Like the captivating sea angels, glow-in-the-dark water slugs under two inches long which feast on smaller “sea butterflies” off Russia’s north-west coast.

BBC2 describe their new teatime show Lighting as “a quick-fire quiz”, as in “quick, fire whoever commissioned it.

One deals with failure, the blues and a shovel full of horse crap, the other was a rag and bone man. It sounds scary, ominous even, but just means “we booked someone as a judge and they’ll do what we’re paying them for”. On one hand we had Prof Jasper Tempest, a brilliant criminologist prone to picturing his students as clucking chickens, on the other a series of vicious rapes. veteran Sue Hodge gets on her soapbox about the state of TV comedy in today’s Sunday Express Review, and I’m talking telly with 80s singing sensation Sam Brown, daughter of Joe.WE got a small spark of the old Anne when Rachel Riley said ex-host Nick Hewer had stolen things from the studio.

I wasn’t expecting to be asked about politics on GB News last night so all my scathing outpourings about the Conservatives and Labour were entirely off the cuff.Not to mention, Tom’s other evergreen smash The Green Green Grass Of Home – about a bloke, presumably a killer, on death row. Faye boasted modestly “I’m great in bed” and announced she wants a fella to “rip me a new arsehole”. The three-part story of his dogged cold case investigation started slowly but grew by the episode to a gripping courtroom climax. His victim is the Foreign Secretary’s son, so London DCI Rav hits Belfast unaware that the local Plod are as bent as a twisted pretzel. Here you will find an occasional ill-tempered blog, an edited version of the Bushell On The Box TV column, links to my books and radio shows, a few old features and so on.