Tag Archives: @SCARFMANANDY

DANNY DYER’S RIGHT ROYAL FAMILY – Episode one review.

Posted on January 27, 2019 by SCARFMAN

Before it aired there was aright load of cultural snobbery towards Danny Dyer and his new historical documentary, Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family.  Ignore all of this negativity because you will be missing out if you do not. It was … Continue reading →

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Defending The Guilty

Posted on September 25, 2018 by SCARFMAN

Brand new sitcoms these days tend to be very hit or miss.  This week we saw the pilot episode of one based around the judiciary on BBC2 entitled, Defending The Guilty. My initial impression of it was that I really … Continue reading →

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THE IMITATION GAME- Episode one review.

Posted on September 8, 2018 by SCARFMAN

Bearing in mind that in the last ten years there have been more supposed sightings of the Loch Ness monster than of an actual impressionist show on television, it was therefore intriguing to see that ITV1 had recently commissioned such … Continue reading →

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Hang Ups- Episode one review.

Posted on August 18, 2018 by SCARFMAN

Surely, a brand new sitcom co-written and starring Stephen Mangan, had to be good hadn’t it?  Add to this, it also featuring the always utterly brilliant Katherine Parkinson, as well as the legendary actors Richard E. Grant and Charles Dance, … Continue reading →

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Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing – fun, fishing, and friendly banter

Posted on June 23, 2018 by SCARFMAN

Think of a fishing version of that classic road movie Thelma and Louise, but with less sex and more jokes, and that pretty much sums up episode one of Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing! In this first episode, we saw … Continue reading →

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HELLO STRANGER – Episode one review.

Posted on June 8, 2018 by SCARFMAN

The good news is that Hello Stranger was better than the truly awful Naked Attraction.  You must have seen or heard about the latter, the only dating show where people select each other based on the aesthetics of their bits and … Continue reading →

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A MASSIVE OCD BREAKTHROUGH, THANK YOU RUTH! Me and my mental health.

Posted on February 13, 2018 by SCARFMAN

Yesterday was the best day in my life for OVER EIGHT YEARS.  Yesterday was the best day in my life since the OCD began to truly cripple every essence of my life.  Yesterday was the best I have felt in … Continue reading →

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HE’S A MAN, WITH A PLAN…….HE’S MISSTRA SCARFMAN!

Posted on January 17, 2018 by SCARFMAN

  HE’S A MAN, WITH A PLAN…. HE’S(me) MISSTRA SCARFMAN!! This is how my life feels right now my friends.  Last Monday afternoon, I went for a careers counselling appointment for the first time in over nine years and overall … Continue reading →

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LAUGHTER HAS SAVED ME! Me and my mental health.

Posted on January 9, 2018 by SCARFMAN

This isn’t going to be a blog where I try and make you laugh with a series of funny jokes.  I also do not want this to be a blog where it comes across like I’m trying to persuade you … Continue reading →

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‘PEAKY BLINDERS’ DELIVERS A PERSONAL BEST! Series 4, episode one review.

Posted on November 20, 2017 by SCARFMAN

Last week saw the dramatic return of Peaky Blinders on BBC Two for a fourth series, a family gangster crime drama set in the 1920s in Birmingham, England.  A tired script or tired acting were nowhere to be seen here because … Continue reading →

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