First today we start with the end of Newsround.
There’s a trail for Best of Friends.
Then there’s another episode of Raven – The Secret Temple.
Some of the angles for Pillars of Courage make it look like the bag holding the jewel is about five feet above the players, but other angles show they are able to reach them. Are they faking some of these shots?
One of the teams is down to a single person, and he’s on the archery task, at which the players have had mixed fortunes.
The Ledge remains quite scary, and some of the gems are out of reach of some players.
Rangoli Ring is more Creative Arts than jeopardy, apart from a time limit.
One of the players on the Ledge is brave enough to jump for the jewels.
This was the last of the 14 tasks they had to face. The red team has the most jewels, but there will be a runners up quest so that some of the other team members can also play on the final game.
Media Centre Description: Nine warriors remain to undertake the last virtue task under the intense heat of the Indian sun. The Tigers aim to decipher Rangoli Ring, the Wolves must aim true in Archery, the Eagles must summon all their courage for the Ledge and the Panthers must face the Pillars of Courage. The time of reckoning is nearly here. Who will enter the Citadel and continue on this quest and will Nevar put a stop to their challenge?
Recorded from CBBC Channel on Saturday 3rd May 2008 12:58
BBC Genome: CBBC Channel Saturday 3rd May 2008 13:00
The next recording starts with the end of Pinky Dinky Doo.
There’s a trail for Carrie and David’s Popshop.
Then there’s a repeat of an episode of Jackanory Junior – Fig’s Giant.
Media Centre Description: Stories for young children. Art Malik reads Geraldine McCaughrean’s re-telling of Gulliver Travels from the point of view of Fig, a little Lilliputican girl who befriends the giant.
Recorded from CBeebies on Saturday 3rd May 2008 17:43
BBC Genome: CBeebies Saturday 3rd May 2008 17:45
After this, it’s Goodbye Sub, Hello Moon. Then the recording ends with the start of Mama Mirabelle’s Home Movies.
The next recording opens with a trail for Saturday Night programmes, including Doctor Who, I’d Do Anything and Casualty.
There’s also a trail for the Indiana Jones season.
Then it’s a new episode of Doctor Who – The Poison Sky.
Wilf is trapped in the car, and his rescue comes from an unexpected place, as Sylvia grabs a large axe and smashes the window. I liked this, as Sylvia is too often a bit of a villain this series (and she’s very good at it) so it’s nice to see her better instincts take hold here.
Young UNIT solider Ross Jenkins (also the name of a Watford player from the 80s, which I only know because my older sister was (is) a massive Watford fan so I heard about them a lot) has found a taxi that doesn’t have ATMOS fitted.
The Doctor asks Donna if she’s coming. Sylvia tells her not to but Wilf tells her to go. “You go, my darlin’.” “Dad!” “Don’t listen to her. You go with The Doctor. That’s my girl!” I swear, every scene with Bernard Cribbins makes me cry.
There’s news reports, featuring Kirsty Wark. I wonder why they put the lines on these broadcasts, which makes less and less sense when more people are watching on LCD TVs. But I suppose we didn’t get our first LCD TV until 2007, so maybe I’m just applying 2020s logic to it. Time moves quickly sometimes.
Tiffany Wells, the programme’s resident American newscaster also appears, which is always fun.
Back at the UNIT HQ, the evil clone Martha finally relays the message from the Doctor that he gave her a while ago, and she sat on it. “Code Red Sontaran.” Just when it’s a bit too late.
The Doctor tells Donna to stay in the Tardis to avoid the poisonous fumes. He gives her a key. “I’ve never given you a key. That’s yours. Quite a big moment, really.” “Maybe we can get sentimental after the world’s choked to death.”
Clone Martha signals to the two mind controlled soldiers, they attach something to the outside of the Tardis, and it’s transported up to the Sontaran ship.
The Doctor discovers it’s gone, teleported, and this raises his suspicions of Clone Martha. “It’s shielded, they could never detect it.” “What?” I’m just wondering. Have you phoned your family and Tom?” “No, what for?” “The gas. Tell them to stay inside.” “Course I will, yeah. But what about Donna? I mean, where’s she?” “Oh, she’s gone home. She’s not like you, she’s not a soldier.”
The Doctor calls the Sontaran ship. In the Tardis, Donna hears the broadcast, but there’s a very brief flash frame of Rose.
He taunts the Sontarans, but lets Donna know he’s talking to he, telling her to use the phone. “We are the first Sontarans in history to capture a TARDIS!” “Well, as prizes go, that’s… Noble. As they say in Latin, “Donna” nobis pacem.”
Luke Rattigan goes back to his academy to tell his acolytes about his glorious plan. Now the Earth is doomed, they’re going to start a new world light years away. Strangely enough, his acolytes aren’t very impressed with this plan. “With Planetfall, we can start again. We can build and breed, we can prosper, we can do anything!” “We’re going to breed?” “I’ve designed a mating programme. I’ve planned the whole thing!”
He pulls a gun on them, but they just walk out. “Guess that just proves it. I’m cleverer than you! I’m cleverer than everyone! D’you hear me? I’m clever!” I think when I first watched this, I thought Rattigan’s character was a bit unlikely. Now I think he’s a spot on Tech Bro. Even the new planet bullshit is Elon Musk’s Mars thing.
Not knowing how to call the Doctor, Donna phones home. “Is he with you, The Doctor?” Oh, The Doctor! No. I’m all on my own.” “Look, you promised he was gonna look after you.” “He will, Gramps. There’s something he needs me to do. I just don’t know what.” “Well, the whole place is covered, all of London, they’re saying. The whole world. It’s the scale of it, Donna. I mean, how can one man stop all that?” “Trust me. He can do it.” “Yeah, well, if he doesn’t, you tell him he’ll have to answer to me.”
The world governments prepare to launch a nuclear strike against the Sontarans. But Clone Martha has the override codes, and stops the launch.
The Sontarans stage an assault on the factory. The soldiers’ guns don’t work because the Sontarans are jamming them with a “cordolaine” signal. Poor Ross gets killed.
“Times like this, I could do with the Brigadier. No offence.” “None taken. Sir Alistair’s a fine man, if not the best. Unfortunately, he’s stranded in Peru.”
Rattigan returns to the Sontaran ship. “I’m sorry to report, sir, I’ve failed. They wouldn’t come. The students, they didn’t have the imagination to believe.” “A pity. We’ve lost our target practice!” “What do you mean?” “Upon arrival on board this ship, your students would have been shot down. Perhaps they were more clever than you thought.” “You promised…” “There was no Planetfall! Castor 36, indeed! We only needed you for installation of the ATMOS system.” “No, but I’m on your side. I did everything you wanted. And it’s not ATMOS-system, that’s a tautology. It’s just ATMOS.” “Execute him!” I love his retreat to pedantry at the end. But he teleports away, and lies sobbing on the floor.
The Doctor needs Donna to get the Tardis back, so he tells her about the probic vent on the back of their necks, and she takes out the Sontaran guarding the Tardis. “Back of the neck!”
Colonel Mace gives a rallying speech to his troops. “The Sontarans might think of us as primitive. As does every passing species with an axe to grind. They make a mockery of our weapons, our soldiers, our ideals. But no more! From this point on, it stops. From this point on, the people of Earth fight back and we show them! We show the warriors of Sontar what the human race can do!”
Then there’s a loud sound of engines from above, and the Valiant, the airborne carrier from the end of the last series, comes down, blowing away the smog.
Using guns with ammunition that isn’t susceptible to the cordolaine signal, UNIT are able to fight back.
The Doctor takes Clone Martha into the factory, and searches the lower levels, finally finding the clone vat, and real Martha. Clone Martha pulls a gun. “Wish you carried a gun now?” “Not at all.” “I’ve been stopping the nuclear launch all this time.” “Doing exactly what I wanted. I needed to stop the missiles, as much as the Sontarans. I’m not having Earth start an interstellar war. You’re a triple agent!” “When did you know?” “Right from the start. Reduced iris contraction, thinning of the hair on the left temple. And, frankly, you smell.”
Colonel Mace shoots one of the Sontaran Commanders. As he dies he says “Wonderful.”
At last we get a two-shot of Martha and her clone. It’s obligatory.
Donna reenables the teleports on the ship, and the Doctor is able to bring her and the Tardis back. Then they go to Rattigan Academy. Lke waves his gun but the Doctor just takes it a tosses it away. “If I see one more gun…”
The Doctor takes some of Rattigan’s equipment, designed to terraform his mythical new planet.
The poison gas that the Sontarans are pumping into the atmosphere is volatile, and this should ignite it. It sounds catastrophic to me but I’m sure the Doctor knows what he’s doing.
It works, though, and the fire sweep across the whole planet, clearing the air.
Everyone’s cheering. Colonel Mace gets a kiss from his right hand woman.
But the danger’s not over. Now the Sontarans will just invade and wipe out humankind the old fashioned way. So the Doctor has to take the converter onto their ship. But he can’t do it by remote control. “You’re gonna ignite them. You’ll kill yourself. Just send that thing up, on its own. I dunno, put it on a delay.” “I can’t.” “Why not?” “I’ve got to give them a choice. Right, so… Donna. Thank you, for everything. Martha, you too. Oh…so many times. Luke. Do something clever with your life.”
The Doctor tells the Sontarans he’ll destroy them unless they leave. “Your stratagem would be wise if Sontarans feared death. But we do not. At arms!” “If it saves the Earth, I’ll do it.” “A warrior doesn’t talk, he acts!” “I am giving you the chance to leave.” “And miss the glory of this moment?” “All weapons targeting Earth, sir. Firing in 20.” “I warn you!” “And I salute you! Take aim!”
Back on Earth Luke is fiddling with the teleport. “What are you doing?” “Something clever.” He presses the button, the Doctor teleports back to Earth, Luke teleports onto the ship, catches the control of the atmospheric converter and looks at the Sontarans doing their victory dance. “Sontar-Ha!” he says, and presses the button. As villain redemption arcs go, this is OK.
Goodbye Sontarans.
Donna’s saying goodbye to Wilf again. Once again, Cribbins is a miracle. Encouraging her to have adventures, but still desperately worried about her. I’m in tears again. “I won’t tell her. Best not. Just keep it as our little secret, eh?” “Yeah.” “And you go with him, that wonderful Doctor. You go and see the stars. And then bring a bit of ’em back, for your old gramps.”
Donna and the Doctor are saying goodbye to Martha, when the Tardis suddenly starts moving on its own, travelling who knows where. I’d forgotten about this mini cliffhanger.
Nerdy tech observation – the Media Centre description is empty for this episode, yet for subsequent repeats it’s not. I wonder why this happens.
Media Centre Description:
Recorded from BBC ONE on Saturday 3rd May 2008 18:18
BBC Genome: BBC ONE Saturday 3rd May 2008 18:20
After this there’s a trail for National Lottery 1 vs 100 and one for Radio One’s Big Weekend in Maidstone, with a big headline act.
Then the recording stops with the start of I’d Do Anything, but stay tuned for later…
The next recording starts with the end of Three’s Outtakes.
There’s a trail for Blood, Sweat & T-Shirts.
Then there’s an episode of Doctor Who Confidential – Sontar-Ha!
Russell T Davies: “It’s big battle time in this episode, and it’s the first time ever on screen you get to see the Sontarans en masse. I just want to see hordes of them, armies of them, marching, guns, battleships, action, to see these soldiers, these famous soldiers of the Doctor Who universe, at war, in battle, fighting, and loving it.”
Susie Liggat: “I think we really did get a sense of scale, in that we had these two big forces facing each other, and then throwing in our set piece special effects, in episode five, makes for a very dramatic sequence.”
Out of character Dan Starkey sounds so odd. “At the moment we’re waiting to go and shoot the big battle that we’re going to be having with the UNIT troops. And shooting various members of them. It’s an interesting way to spend a morning, certainly.”
Tom Lucy: “What we’re seeing on that is the soldiers running around, half panicking. Then the Sontarans come in into a set line, and then we had to work out different scenarios – running, falling and trying to shoot, but their guns are jammed.”
Danny Hargreaves explains the scene where the Valiant attacks the factory and lots of Sontarans get blasted with explosions and debris. “Here, for this particular effect, we’ve got Sontarans that are going to be in a military-style march… ..and then they are going to get hit by this almighty boom that’s coming from the Valiant.”
Douglas Mackinnon: “You have Danny, whose business is to do with the physical effects. You’ve got Tom, who’s got to do the stunts, and you’ve got me, who gets from them what I need to tell the story.”
Sontaran performer Jack Steed: “You’re going over it in your head, One, two, three… You’re expecting it, but you’re waiting for the BOOF! to go with it. Yeah, no, pretty good. Hopefully it looked good. Saw a load of smoke, then as I was lying on the floor I saw sparks coming from the ceiling. Good fun, though. Getting better and better, working on this, eh?”
David Tennant, being a proper fan, gives some history of the Sontarans in the show. “The Sontarans have been on Doctor Who I think four times prior to this. They first appeared with Jon Pertwee, towards the end of his time, I think. That was Elisabeth Sladen’s first ever story. You should ask her about them.”
And they do! Here’s Elisabeth Sladen. “I’m very fond of the Sontarans. They were my first monster therefore they were my first shock surprise. Also they returned for me when we were on OB in Dartmoor. And when you do see a monster as a character you’ve seen before, you have the ammunition. You remember, and it adds another layer.”
Colin Baker remembers his encounters. “Bless them, they had to film in Seville in the height of the summer in temperatures of 110 degrees, and they were wearing these all-over rubber suits, these great rubber masks, and within seconds, they were swimming in perspiration inside. So we had to be quite swift with filming their scenes.”
Neill Gorton on the Sontaran prosthetics: “The brief with the Sontaran was to keep the traditional look, the way the head looks, the way it looked in the ’70s, that lovely dome shape. But obviously now, 30, 40 years on, we can totally update the technology. Now it’s a prosthetic make-up. It’s in two pieces. There’s the large dome part of his head, and then the facial piece which goes on. We glue it down to the face so that as the performer moves their face, everything moves with the face.”
Christopher Ryan: “My body, head, arms, everything, was cast in some sort of material to create a new body, a Sontaran body. A cast had to be taken of the whole body. The arms, the hands. Because it takes time for these things to set, you have to keep as still as possible.”
Martin Rezard: “We make one face for each day. I think it’s probably… We made eight for Dan and six or seven for Chris.”
Choreographer Ailsa Berk: “About three or four weeks ago when the guys first came together, we did a few basic exercises just running things, just some marching, to get everybody in the feel of the quality of movement that we were actually looking for.”
Ryan Sampson: “It’s kind of a bit of a dream role to play, because he’s got all these great elements, like genius and megalomaniac.”
Helen Raynor: “He’s a character, who has just somewhere gone off the rails. He’s brilliant. He’s incredibly intelligent, but he’s cast himself as an outsider.”
One thing I like about Confidential, it’s not just the heads of department. Here’s Henry Brook, a trainee technician explaining how they produced the gas on screen.
Catherine Tate, on the gas: “It’s not actually causing me – I hope it’s not causing me – any harm. Um…er…cut back to me next year with an iron lung.”
Jacqueline King loved her scene with the axe. She was disappointed she didn’t get to smash the window herself. “Sadly, they wouldn’t let me do it. But I so wanted to. I told everyone it would have been a fortune in psychotherapy to just be able to smash a windscreen. Two stunt people had to come in and cover for me.”
Media Centre Description: Behind-the-scenes look at the making of Doctor Who. The Sontarans are back and, with their invasion plans threatening the Earth, the Doctor is forced to face his enemy one more time. Features in-depth interviews with David Tennant, Colin Baker and Elisabeth Sladen on their experiences with the Sontarans, and Chris Ryan on life behind the prosthetics and playing General Stahl.
Recorded from BBC THREE on Saturday 3rd May 2008 19:03
BBC Genome: BBC THREE Saturday 3rd May 2008 19:05
After this there’s a trail for Gavin & Stacey and Scallywagga. Then the recording ends with the start of The Real Hustle.
The next recording is this week’s I’d Do Anything.
Jodie Prenger performs “Luck Be a Lady” (from Guys and Dolls”)
Sarah Lark performs “Mr. Bojangles” (Sammy Davis Jr.)
There’s a VT of Samantha Barks’ home, the Isle of Man, which has been renamed the Isle of Sam.
Rachel Tucker performs “For Once in My Life” (Stevie Wonder)
Samantha Barks performs “Sway” (Dean Martin)
The Olivers meet the cast of High School Musical and do some dancing with basketballs.
Niamh Perry performs “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” (from Shall We Dance)
Jessie Buckley performs “The Man that Got Away” (Judy Garland)
Ashley J Russell performs “Big Spender” (from Sweet Charity)
Media Centre Description: Graham Norton presents as Andrew Lloyd Webber searches for the nation’s Nancy and Oliver to star in the West End production. The remaining seven Nancys battle it out to stay in the competition, while the young Olivers discover who is the next to go through to the semi final.
Recorded from BBC ONE on Saturday 3rd May 2008 19:07
BBC Genome: BBC ONE Saturday 3rd May 2008 19:10
After this there’s a trail for the Indiana Jones films.
Then the recording ends with the start of National Lottery 1vs100.
The next recording is Numb3rs – Mind Games.
The dead and eviscerated bodies of three young women are found near the US border with Mexico. The police who found the bodies were tipped off by a psychic, Simon Kraft, played by John Glover.
The initial assumption is that he had something to do with the deaths, but he denies it, saying he’s worked with the police before. He also tries to demonstrate his abilities to Megan. “Your father always wanted a son, didn’t he?” “What are you talking about?” “You were the youngest? Three older sisters? You were his last chance?” “I don’t appreciate people looking into my personal life.” “I told you, it’s not something I control.” “Well, if I were you, I’d learn how to.” “There’s something else. Something… No one else knows about you.”
He tries a similar thing on Charlie, but Charlie is a strong skeptic about psychic powers.
Charlie’s colleague Larry is exactly the kind of credulous scientist who falls for fake psychics. He even starts talking about Quantum science and evolution to try and suggest it’s possible for psychic powers to evolve. Interestingly, actor Peter MacNicol has a story credit on this episode so I wonder if this is his position.
They pick up a young man whose pickup tyres match tyreprints they found at the scene. He says he works in the area as a border advocate. “My group, border care. We help undocumented workers.” “You help them how?” “I set up water stations, and when it’s cold, I take them blankets and clothing. Last summer, 68 people died of exposure. Trying to find a better life.” “What about these statues? Like the ones we found in your truck.” “I found them. Near the migrant camp where you saw me. They’re bad luck totems. I figured somebody was trying to scare off the workers.” “So why’d you run when you saw us?” “I thought you were someone else.” “Someone like who?” “Private Border Patrol. These anti-immigration vigilantes. They’ve been harassing these poor workers for months now. They sure as hell don’t like what I do.”
Simon Kraft has an alibi for the time of death of the women, but he still wants to be involved in the case. Charlie sets up a test where he has to say the colour of playing cards as they’re drawn. Megan tells Charlie he failed. “He failed.” “See that? How bad?” “25 cards. He got them all wrong.” “All of them. Well, the odds of getting them all wrong are the same as getting them all right, must be…” “One in 33.5 million. That man is playing with us.”
In the end they discover that the women were drug mules, having swallowed quantities of drugs to cross the border. Charlie helps map likely routes for other women, they match them with the so-called border advocate who turns out to be a drug trafficker, and there’s a race against time to find one of the other women who crossed carrying drugs. Annoyingly, the programme seems to be equivocal on whether Kraft really has psychic powers, which seems like a cop-out for this particular show. Maybe The Mentalist spoiled me.
Media Centre Description: Detective drama about a maths genius recruited by the FBI to solve complex criminal cases. Don’s team are called in to investigate the mysterious deaths of three women found in the wilderness. When Charlie hears that it was a psychic who led the police to the bodies, he becomes determined to prove that the man is a fraud.
Recorded from Five US on Saturday 3rd May 2008 19:58
After this, there’s the start of Sunset.
The next recording starts with 60 Seconds news, mostly repeating stories from yesterday.
There’s a trail for Family Guy and for Glamour Girls.
Then it’s another episode of Top Gear. jeremy looks at a Volkswagen concept car. “What they did, then, with the clock ticking, was take the rear axle and brakes from a Lamborghini Gallardo, the twin turbo charged W12 engine from a Bentley Continental, and the rear sub-frame and floor from an Audi R8. And then, they put all these bits and pieces in the body of a Golf. And here it is. It’s called the GTI W12, and unlike most concept cars, it actually works.”
They drive around Europe looking for the best driving road. Richard drives a Porsche GT3 RS.
Jeremy brings a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera.
James is driving an Aston Martin V8 Vantage N24.
Helen Mirren is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
They find the perfect driving road in Switzerland.
Media Centre Description: Motoring magazine show with Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond. In the first of a new series Jeremy, Richard and James drive three lightweight supercars across Europe in search of the best roads. Plus Jeremy finds out what happens when you put a Bentley engine into a VW Golf, and Dame Helen Mirren is the Star In A Reasonably Priced Car.
Recorded from BBC THREE on Saturday 3rd May 2008 20:03
BBC Genome: BBC THREE Saturday 3rd May 2008 20:05
After this there’s 60 Seconds of Sports news, and trails for the Indiana Jones films, Blood, Sweat & T-Shirts and Scallywagga.
Then the recording ends with the start of High Fidelity.
The next recording is the first in a new series of Derren Brown: Trick or Treat.
The candidate for this episode is Glen.
He picks Treat (or rather, Derren picks Treat for him).
He has to expand his memory in order to compete in a Pub Quiz Championship. “I have my own techniques which will allow Glen to learn thousands of pages of information unconsciously with no conscious awareness of what he’s remembering. And sometimes that information may be stored as words and sometimes as pictures.”
Derren does a supposed photographic memory trick including coffee beans. The barista marks one of the beans while Derren remembers the position of the rest of the beans. “While that dries I now have to memorise the order of the beans that are on the tray. So give me a second to do that. And just keep half an eye on your bean so that you know that I’m not going to flick the bean off or anything like that! That would be a first!” Derren is a very naughty man.
Derren catches up with Glen after a few days and asks him some questions from the books Glen has been speed reading. He gets the questions right, much to his own surprise.
He competes in the quiz, on his own, against 21 other teams. His wife is there for moral support.
He comes 2nd. Which is pretty amazing. I wish I knew if this was legitimate. It seems so unlikely. It’s more likely that the programme contrived to drop a lot of suggestion about what the questions will be into his everyday life. But I’d love to know.
Media Centre Description: Psychological illusionist Derren Brown returns for a second series of mind trickery. As before, members of the public make a blind choice of a Trick or Treat card. If they pick ‘Treat’, Derren will use his skills to ensure something pleasant happens to them. If they pick ‘Trick’, the result will be something quite dark. Derren attempts to turn a father-of-two into a genius in just seven days, in preparation for an elite pub quiz.
Recorded from E4 on Saturday 3rd May 2008 21:33
After this, the recording ends with the start of The Naked Gun 2 1/2 – The Smell of Fear.
The next recording starts with the end of Casualty and a trail for Holby Blue.
Then it’s another episode of Love Soup – Whose God is it Anyway?
Alice has moved in with an actress friend of hers, Fae. She accompanies her to a recording session, redubbing a lesbian love scene.
“The only thing you’d say, there is this, I don’t know what it is about actresses, but complete lack of inhibition about herself and her body, I suppose, because that’s what she’s trained for. To expose her soul and her flesh to all and sundry, but…” But then Alice makes a faux pas. “Yes, it was fascinating all that this morning, learning all the tricks of the trade. I mean, you never know, would you? They weren’t your bits out there on the screen. It’s very clever.” “What do you mean? Sorry?” “Well, that it wasn’t, um, you know, your bottom in the close-ups.”
Alice has now broken up with Douglas (Mark Heap). He turns up to return a tube of toothpaste. “I am on a certain amount of medication, obviously, but, erm, I mean, no, I’m coping extremely well. If you… Actually, sleeping, eating, much better than I was.”
Joanna Page makes an appearance as Heather, who does Douglas’ ironing. And her company name appears to be “Heather Sexual Ironing Service” as far as I can make out.
She asks him for help because her computer has stopped working. She get an email from her boyfriend who’s gone to Kenya with some mates on safari, and he attaches footage of lions humping. The email says “Get the message?” Douglas notices the growling on the soundtrack is out of sync, and wonders if the soundtrack is actually a voice message slowed down really slow. So he speeds it up and it says “Hi Heather, greetings from Kenya. And the message is piss off. I think you’re a gormless, tedious little drip, OK? So don’t expect a call from me when I get back.”
Alice is invited to dinner with Fae’s father Larry, who’s been given six months to live.
He’s going to marry Matilda (Lynda Bellingham) on Saturday.
“So would you do me a favour, Alice? Would you say a small prayer for me tonight? It doesn’t matter who to, whichever, whatever. Just putting the word for me upstairs, it would mean a great deal.” “Absolutely, Larry. I will do that with pleasure.”
At the wedding, Larry has some news. His doctors have said their diagnosis was wrong, and there’s nothing wrong with him. “And so today, my darling Matilda, I give you my own, my very special wedding present. My life.” I think that’s panic in her eyes.
Douglas and Heather are going out but I don’t think it’s going well, for Douglas. “And I’m sorry about that little set to with the staff. Only, I think there’s an art to placing a napkin on a lady’s lap that man hadn’t quite mastered.” “No, absolutely. But I think that line of yours certainly made the point. What are you, a waiter or a gynaecologist?”
Matilda is definitely regretful. And she knows whose fault it is. “Did you or did you not do what he said and say a prayer for him that night?” “Well… Actually, if you want to know, I did.” “And you’re surprised it was answered? And since when, am I allowed to ask, did you get to talk to our God? You had no business praying to him for anything.” “Your God?” Our God, yes, our God. To wit the sacred, exclusive covenant with Abraham. Try opening the Bible sometime. Larry, okay, he would have died soon. But he’d have died happy. Now, he’s going to live unhappily ever after.”
Heather tells Douglas about the fate of her former boyfriends. “One guy, the next day after he dumped me, a tree fell on his house. Another one who’d just been stringing me along for weeks suddenly contracted this really unpleasant skin disease that kind of ate away at his face. It was horrible, so… and guess what? You know, Sean, Safari Sean, who emailed that hilarious message with the lions? I just heard today he was gored by a charging rhinoceros, so no way are you going to tell me that’s a coincidence.”
Douglas visits her at her flat to discover that she’s actually triplets. What was I saying about the rules around doubles in film and TV – you have to have them all in one shot, so well done, Love Soup.
He and Alice end up together again.
Media Centre Description: Comedy series chronicling eternally-single Alice’s quest for the perfect partner. Alice has moved off Milly’s sofa and into her own room in actress friend Fae Maddison’s spacious apartment, but little else in her life looks like settling down. As she struggles with her conscience following her traumatic break-up with Douglas, she starts pondering the awful question – has she, in fact, made the wrong decision?
Recorded from BBC ONE on Saturday 3rd May 2008 21:43
BBC Genome: BBC ONE Saturday 3rd May 2008 21:45
After this there’s a trail for Waking The Dead and a Match of the Day trail.
Then the recording ends with the start of the News, leading with Boris Johnson becoming Mayor of London.
Here’s the Numbers ad breaks.
Here’s the Derren Brown ad breaks.
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- Mail on Sunday
- Comfort
- Sensodyne ProNamel
- B&Q
- trail: Shark
- trail: Police Interceptors
- trail: True CSI
- Miracle-Gro Organic Choice
- Mail on Sunday
- trail: Brothers and Sisters
- trail: Scrubs
- Abbey
- Pimms – Alexander Armstrong
- Privilege Insurance – Nigel Havers
- Sacla Pesto Sauce
- Miracle-Gro LiquaFeed
- Berocca
- Doomsday in cinemas
- Schweppes
- E.on
- Marmite – Paddington
- F&F at Tesco
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Nestle Cereals
- Butterfly on a Wheel on DVD
- MFI
- Auto Trader
- Miracle-Gro Organic Choice
- E.on
- trail: The Inbetweeners