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He also rightly recommended <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/series\/monk\/\">Monk<\/a><\/em>, a marvellously amusing (if not too intellectually taxing on the Whodunnit scale) US series about an obsessive-compulsive detective.<\/p>\n<p>But the highlight of this week&#8217;s <em>Screen Wipe<\/em> for me was his description of <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/name\/nm0261597\/\">Elizabeth Estensen<\/a> off of <em>Emmerdale Farm<\/em> (call it by its name) as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Elizabeth Estensen from <em>The Liver Birds<\/em> and <em>T-Bag<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is no logic to it; it just pleased me.<\/p>\n<p>Armando Iannucci&#8217;s <em>Time Trumpet<\/em> was, as <a href=\"http:\/\/loveandliberty.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/time-trumpet-play-loud.html\">Alex says<\/a>, a bit hit and miss, but the <strike>Doctor is worth the monsters<\/strike> hits were worth the misses and the combined average was well above par.* My favourite bit (as picked out too by <a href=\"http:\/\/gingeranddynamite.blogspot.com\/\">Paul Evans<\/a> in Alex&#8217;s comments box) was Stewart Lee&#8217;s line<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is more disgusting, a girl singing with her guts hanging out and her intestines slung over her shoulder\u2026 or the institution of the monarchy?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Roll on next Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>*&#8221;Above par&#8221; is in golf, of course, a bad thing, but here I&#8217;m using it to mean a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Charlie Brooker&#8217;s Screen Wipe on BBC Four last night, I was reassured that my DVD collection isn&#8217;t as unfashionable as I thought: Brooker praised Columbo, possibly the least hip box sets I own. 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