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Murder She Wrote

11:43am Saturday 28th November 2009

She never fails to spot the killer, corner them, and extract a full confession within convenient earshot of the law, who must then begrudgingly arrest them.

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Emma Cave on I'm A Celebrity - Get Me Out Of here!

10:37am Saturday 21st November 2009

"Watching those three was a bit like sucking on one of those super-sour gobstoppers that used to be around when I was a kid, but have probably been banned by the EU now. Hard to swallow but impossible to spit out."

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Emma Cave on X Factor

10:50am Wednesday 26th August 2009

"If you can make the judges cry, or glaze over with unbridled lust (either for your hot young body, or your marketing potential), you’re in. If you make them snigger or call security, you’re out."

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Globe TV reviewer Emma Cave on Monk

4:56pm Thursday 13th August 2009

Monk must be the only TV detective I’ve ever come across to favour panic attacks over temper tantrums and prefers washing his hands 17 times to necking a bottle of scotch when things get tricky.

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Emma Cave on Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum

11:36am Monday 10th August 2009

Limited as my own achievements are, after watching ‘Young, Dumb and Living off Mum’ I can take pride in the fact that I could use a washing machine and understand the basic function of a tin opener by the age of 25.

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Total Wipeout

2:37pm Saturday 1st August 2009

These may sound like ice breakers at a child’s party, but there are absolutely no similarities. You’d be closer to the mark by comparing them to a platform video game – although unlike Super Mario, real people generally aren’t very good at defying gravity or dodging a succession of runaway logs. Disgrace? Humiliation? Got it covered.

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Globe TV review Emma Cave on Living TV's Four Weddings

9:39am Thursday 16th July 2009

Living TV are certainly reaping the seeds and wearing the robes of Channel 4, writes Globe online TV reviewer Emma Cave, with their cunning plagiarism of a certain dinner party competition show, which most of the country are watching, and the rest are applying for.

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Globe online TV reviewer Emma Cave on Airline - (hates flying, secretly loves the programme)

8:37pm Sunday 12th July 2009

I detest flying. It terrifies me. I hate the take-off, the landing, and the in-between part where everybody else relaxes with a bag of peanuts and a best-seller, and I assume the emergency landing position and pray to every god I can think of.

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Emma Cave's TV review: Animal Park

2:29pm Wednesday 8th July 2009

Globe TV reviewer Emma Cave, confessing her love for the BBC's Animal Park, says: "Because Ben Fogle is also a bit posh, the staff like to take a step back and watch him mess up real man’s work - which he usually does with splendid aplomb."

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Personal Affairs

12:00pm Friday 26th June 2009

THE GLOBE'S online TV commentator declares: "A soap opera that’s shrunk in the wash is the best way I can think of describing over-styled new drama, Personal Affairs." Read this week's brilliant new column.

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