James Delingpole James Delingpole

Faking it | 17 May 2008

Artful Codgers (Channel 4); My Israel (BBC4)

issue 17 May 2008

As budgets fall and standards slip, it’s inevitable that TV is going to get worse and worse and that the job of the TV critic in trying to shame the bosses into arresting this decline will become more important than ever. But this doesn’t make me feel happy. It just — like so many things in the modern world, from biofuels to ‘best practice’ — makes me want to kill myself.

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