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The week ahead: A Cockney cosies up to celebrities
Conrad Astley31/ 3/2006
FOR all his natural charm, charisma and bad suits, Jonathan Ross
is a bit embarrassing when he tries to cosy up with Hollywood
stars.
The new series of
Hollywood Greats (Tuesday, BBC1)
starts with him trying to get into bed with Harrison Ford, and the
Indiana Jones star will no doubt be the first in a long line of his
new best mates.
Maybe promising to go on about how great they are is the only
way to bag these high profile gravel-voiced guests, but this is a
trick our cockney sparrow seems to have perfected.
With the return to our screens of
The Green Wing
(Friday, Channel 4) and the continued success of
House (Thursday, Five) and
The Family
Man (Thursday, BBC1) you might think there's not enough
room for another medical-based show.
But they've managed to squeeze in the latest US import,
Grey's Anatomy (Thursday, Five) - meaning Thursday
could be your night in if you like scalpels, surgical gloves and
stethoscopes.
This has got more in common with No Angels than ER, following the
lives of a group of medical students in a Seattle teaching
hospital.
And would you believe it - all those sick people seem to set their
hormones into overdrive. Heroine Meredith Grey (do you see what
they're doing?) has a one-night stand with a doc, only to find out
he's her new boss, while one episode featuring a three-way lesbian
tryst went out after the Superbowl, almost doubling the show's US
ratings.
There's another chance to see two of the films that mean Morgan
Spurlock must constantly be referred to as "heroic," in
Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days (Monday, Channel 4) and
Super Size Me (Thursday, C4).
Where would we be if we didn't have someone to tell us that
living on the American minimum wage for a month would make you
poor, and eating nothing but McDonald's food for a month would make
you go a bit fat?
On the other end of the documentary scale, this week sees the final
episode of the awe-inspiring
Planet Earth (Sunday,
BBC1).
Having brought us up mountains, down rivers and into caves, David
Attenborough now take us into the middle of the Sahara to see a
truly Biblical swarm of locusts - 40 miles wide and 100 miles
long.
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