Britain's Home Front At War - Britain's Citizen Army (DVD)

Advantages: Funny because its real and relatable
Disadvantages: Sometimes annoying, very polically uncorrect

...When I moved to uni almost a year ago, I knew I wasn't going to have a television so my relatives were nice enough to buy me various DVDs to take for watching. Little Britain season one was one such gift. I'd seen a few of the shows on TV and shown a mild interest in it, but I wasn't hooked on it or fussed either way. The first time I watched the season through I was in hysterics. Each of the characters brings something different and you can follow their situation through the episodes. If you can't follow the many individual characters by watching episode to episode, there is a feature on the DVD that allows you to play all the skits with a particular character. They mostly have their own catchphrase too, which has a strange way of being able to bring strangers together, 'yeah I know', 'yeah but no but yeah but?' and 'eh eh eh... Read review

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Advantages: Hilarious
Disadvantages: None

...It is hard to believe that it was as long ago as February 2003 that the digital/freeview channel BBC3 first ran a pilot episode of a new comedy called Little Britain. The response was fantastic and the creator's Matt Lucas and David Walliams were commissioned to write a full series of eight episodes, which were first broadcast on BBC3 in the September of the same year. Following on from this success it was then re-run on BBC2. What is it all about? The Little Britain series is basically a collection of short sketches, which feature the same characters from one week to the next. Each character creation is very unique and you soon get to know their peculiarities and catchphrases. It is these individual characters which make the programme what it is, as it is these people that you soon grow to love. Little Britain works as... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to watch, very funny auditions at times, can be entertaining
Disadvantages: Piers Morgan and the audiences

...has a buzzer in front of them. During the audition stages the judges hit this buzzer when they have heard enough of each performance. Once a contestant receives three buzzers, which show up as huge red Xs behind them, their act is finished. A contestant can go through to the next round as long as they have at least two votes from the judges. It is a simple format but I sometimes feel that audiences would prefer for a hatch on the stage to open and the contestants fall through into a pit of snakes or that they were thrown to the lions, rather than just have three buzzers. In tha later stages of BGT the viewers at home can vote for their favourite performer. The show is aired on mainstream ITV but has an additional show called Britain's Got More Talent which is aired on ITV2 later in the evening. This has a similar format but shows more... Read review

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