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troubled core of Gene Simmons, Tony Curtis, Salman Rushdie and Kathleen Turner, though whether what we actually see is typical of a normal visit to Dr Connolly’s

Alongside Billie Piper’s transformation from pop pixie and booze-sodden celebrity missus to respected TV actress, the most unexpected showbusiness career shift of our times has to have been Pamela Stephenson’s morphing from spiky-haired comedy foil in Not the Nine O’Clock News and clean-living celebrity missus to respected clinical psychologist. But rather than plying this trade in the shadows she has used her new gift to recharge her stardom, firstly by being the only person Billy Connolly could trust with his memoirs and now taking her therapeutic ways onto the small screen with this second series of Shrink Rap. In the

practice is up for debate.

At just over 45 minutes long, they certainly approximate the chronological span of a session but even with the chatty likes of this series’ subjects, you’d imagine an introspective silence creeping in from time to time. And when Dr Connolly interrupts the Kiss frontman during a deep childhood memory demanding that he removes his shades so she can see his tears, you just know that this is being done purely for the camera. At its very best though, this is the kind of penetrating chat show which blows the chummy fluff- fests served up messrs Ross, O’Grady and Parkinson

next few weeks, you’ll see her attempt to reach the

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It's the end of the world as we know it and not even Hamish Macbeth or Hercule Poirot can save us. Or rather. Robert Carlyle doing a dodgy cockney accent as; a hotshot engineer or David Suchet coming over all go\./ernmental as; the beleaguered deputy PM in the two—part Flood //TV/, Sun 4 8. Mon :3 May. 9pm .0 i. If a Scottish Nat

gets; hold of this. they'll no doubt be outraged at the image of \"uhck being submerged with emergency meetings; only getting into full swing when central London comes; under threat. Coming on like a UK 24’ as ‘.'./aves rather than unreapons threaten national security. panic sets; in with the country wholly unprepared to cope with tidal (l(}\.’2153l£lil()ll. But then that's what you get when you put Neil from The Young Ones in charge of the Met Office.

Whoever put the person in charge for bringing us Pushing Daisies r/TVI. Sat J’tiApr; S).():');)rn O i should be in hot water. Though Anna Friel pulls; off a better accent shift than oor Bob with her transatlantic drawl. that's barely enough of a reason to keep watching this mince The guirky voiceover thing should have been put to seed by now and the fact that hardly a second goes by without the irritating soundtrack iauntying along in the background doesn't help matters. The basic premise. should you be bothered, s; so con\.«’olutedly daft that the pilot episode took about ten

totally out of the water. (Brian Donaldson)

minutes to try and explain its; twists and turns. l;ss;entia|ly. a guy has the power to bring back people from the dead for one minute or until he touches them again. Though he can trade lives by haying someone in the Vicinity die instead. It's neither clever nor funny. And it thinks it's; both. fortunately. there is some humour to be had with The lnbetweeners (IL-I. lhu I May. [Op/n .0. l. in which a young cast who were probably not

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good looking enough to get through the Skins audition door utilise some neat natural wit and a flash sCript to show what it's like to be part of the teenage awkward squad. SOundtraCk- wise. there's a predictal‘fle mix of Arctic Monkeys and Kate Nash, which will probably make this horribly dated in about three months. but for now you should let The Inhetweeners sneak into your lives.

Edging towards the grave is partly what The lnvisibles (BBCI. Thu I May 9pm .0 l is about as; Anthony Head and Warren Clarke play a couple of veteran crooks who are back in a sleepy part of Blighty having sunned themselves; and their ill-gotten gains in Spain. They may be seeking a guiet life. but you just know what happens; next. don't you? You do. don't you? Yes. the pair are lured back into a life of larceny partly against their Will and mainly through the hell of boredom.

The return of Heroes (BBCZ. Thu

24 Apr; 9pm 0.. i will either be a source of transcentlental toy or unreserved contempt depending on how you viewed the first season. So. ‘previously on l-ier'oes'. the Petrelli brothers were jet-propelled into the stratosphere while Hiro Nakamura (which could well have been a headline after the last Old l' irm gamel had time—travelled into 17th century Japan. The cheerleader rand by extension the W()l‘l(ll had been saved while nasty. evil Sylar was wormfood. The arch voiceover from Mohinder Suresh does little to make any of the story less; bamboo/ling, but if you go along for the ride. it'll give you the supernatural ability to Wipe Pushing Urns/es from the mind.

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