Category Archives: documentary

MAFIA WOMEN WITH TREVOR McDONALD : FASCINATING AND POIGNANT! A review, episode one.

Posted on February 19, 2017 by SCARFMAN

As a follow-up to when Sir Trevor McDonald looked back at some of the lives of former members of La Cosa Nostra, here in this first part of two documentaries he now looked at some of the women in their … Continue reading →

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‘HE’S A MAN, WITH A PLAN….HE’S MISSTRA KNOW-IT-ALL’! GARY NEVILLE : THE PUNDIT – A review.

Posted on January 18, 2017 by SCARFMAN

As this documentary on Sky Sports 1 about Sky Sports football pundit Gary Neville finished, I was in two minds about what I thought about it. Part of me thought it had been an enjoyable, relatively interesting twenty-five minute journey … Continue reading →

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AN ASHAMED, INTROSPECTIVE AND HOODWINKED LOUIS! ‘Louis Theroux – Savile’. A review.

Posted on October 7, 2016 by SCARFMAN

This was a BBC Two documentary by Louis Theroux with a difference. Never before have we seen him revisit one of his earlier programmes. First aired fifteen years ago, he looked back at the documentary he did with the now … Continue reading →

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THE ANT AND DEC OF FOOTBALL…….SORT OF! ‘Class of ’92: Out of Their League. Series 2, episode 1 review.

Posted on August 31, 2016 by SCARFMAN

Television sports documentaries do not get much better than this. I loved the first series last year and thoroughly enjoyed the recent opening episode of series two. It focuses on the goings on at semi-professional football side Salford City FC, … Continue reading →

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Versus : The Life and Films of Ken Loach. A REVIEW. ‘A celebration of the KING and LEGEND of British Film’!

Posted on August 3, 2016 by SCARFMAN

Just as this biographical documentary about British film director Ken Loach was about to start, I feared it was going to be about as thrilling to watch as an episode of The South Bank Show with Melvyn Bragg. Such a reservation … Continue reading →

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Killer Women with Piers Morgan – Series 1 – Episode 2 – INTERESTING, INTRIGUING AND YET AGAIN….IMPARTIAL PIERS!

Posted on May 23, 2016 by SCARFMAN

The opening to this second episode was that dramatic that I half expected the famous duff duff drum beat from Eastenders to start playing any second. My jaw nearly dropped to the floor as we were informed how in 2008 … Continue reading →

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Killer Women with Piers Morgan – Episode one review. FORGIVENESS AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE!

Posted on May 16, 2016 by SCARFMAN

In a similar style and vein to the ITV1 Sir Trevor McDonald documentaries of recent years, here we saw Piers Morgan look at the grave but intriguing subject of ‘killer women’. Piers unquestionably is a hugely polarizing figure(being so opinionated … Continue reading →

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A COMEDIC GENIUS FROM BOLTON! ‘PETER KAY : 20 YEARS OF FUNNY’ – A REVIEW.

Posted on December 28, 2015 by SCARFMAN

As I sat down to watch this documentary about Peter Kay on BBC1 this Christmas Eve, I longed for it to be as good as it sounded. It was billed as a look back at Peter’s working life, from the … Continue reading →

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“WHO MAKETH THE MAN HERE? AM I IN CHARGE OR IS MY ARSE IN CHARGE”? ‘THE MOANING OF LIFE 2’, episode six review.

Posted on December 12, 2015 by SCARFMAN

One of my TV highlights of 2015 has without doubt been the second series of Sky One’s The Moaning of Life. I would even go as far to say that I think this is the best thing that Karl Pilkington … Continue reading →

“LIFES RUBBISH”! ‘The Moaning of Life 2’ episode five review.

Posted on November 23, 2015 by SCARFMAN

In episode five of The Moaning of Life 2, Karl Pilkington looked at ‘waste’. He looked at what it is, where it goes and what people do with it. We discovered how creative some people are today with waste. The … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: documentary

MAFIA WOMEN WITH TREVOR McDONALD : FASCINATING AND POIGNANT! A review, episode one.

‘HE’S A MAN, WITH A PLAN….HE’S MISSTRA KNOW-IT-ALL’! GARY NEVILLE : THE PUNDIT – A review.

AN ASHAMED, INTROSPECTIVE AND HOODWINKED LOUIS! ‘Louis Theroux – Savile’. A review.

THE ANT AND DEC OF FOOTBALL…….SORT OF! ‘Class of ’92: Out of Their League. Series 2, episode 1 review.

Versus : The Life and Films of Ken Loach. A REVIEW. ‘A celebration of the KING and LEGEND of British Film’!

Killer Women with Piers Morgan – Series 1 – Episode 2 – INTERESTING, INTRIGUING AND YET AGAIN….IMPARTIAL PIERS!

Killer Women with Piers Morgan – Episode one review. FORGIVENESS AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE!

“WHO MAKETH THE MAN HERE? AM I IN CHARGE OR IS MY ARSE IN CHARGE”? ‘THE MOANING OF LIFE 2’, episode six review.

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