Did we like it? A very pleasing result ended a week of great entertainment. We love this show and hope it has a few years of life still in it. What was good about it? • Simon Cowell didn't get his own way. His favoured Faryl Smith and Escala finished among the...
Friday How we rated them 1. Escala: four pretty ladies handled their instruments with deftness and finesse during a lively Live and Let Die. 2. Craig Harper: the over-emotional "killing mesself for me kids" northern comic spoofed Shirley Bassey and Enrique Iglesias...
Did we like it? A bit of a ramshackle edition with the auditions crammed in before the umming and aahing over the semi-final line-up. What was good about it? • We think most of the acts we liked got through to the live events, although the selection segment was so...
Did we like it? With a good balance of good and bad acts, this was one of the more entertaining audition shows. What was good about it? • The Simon Cowell-Susan Childs exchanges. Susan: "I'm going to be saying some poetry about the hats I wear." Simon (looking...
Did we like it? With a decent mix of entertaining good and bad acts, this was much better than last week's low. What was good about it? • While we loved 12-year-old Faryl Smith's Ave Maria, it has ruined the competition because she's a shoo-in for the ultimate prize....
Did we like it? Not much. The old and young were patronised, the mentally ill were ridiculed and even the star of the night didn't shine very brightly. What was good about it? • Football juggling Jeremy and exotic bellydancer Sophie. Singer Dean Wilson wasn't bad but...
Did we like it? The weakest programme so far was just about rescued with the heartwarming finale. What was good about it? • The heartwarming finale with little dancer George Sampson, discarded last year but coming back with a sensational routine and earning a...
I’ve not watched the BAFTA TV awards for a while. Have they always said “and the Bafta is awarded to” instead of “and the Bafta goes to”? I have to say the majority of the winners were deserving. Not quite sure how Holby City bagged the best continuing drama (a soap...
Did we like it? We did, a lot, apart from the spurious stories spun by Ant and Dec ("it's been a bad morning in Birmingham"). What was good about it? • The two young Charlies. Ten-year-old jazz singer Charlie Green was the sensation of the show with Summer Wind;...
The story of the first episode of X-Factor, but be warned not all of it is true. In some instances we have faked paragraphs consisting of absolute lies in order to give a natural flow to the story. The High Waist of Human Waste Simon Cowell heralds the new series with...
Did we like it? It probably should be called Britain's Got Sob Stories but, aside from the tales of dead and sick relatives, the live programmes in this talent show series have provided us with the feelgood TV event of the year, uncovering some great acts and forcing...
Did we like it? All we can say is well done that we had to wrack our brains, not to mention our soaring hearts, to plump for one or the other. That is a testament to how fabulous and perfectly both Leona and Ray sang and performed. And all we can say is well done to...
Did we like it? It was a (f)Abba night and made up for the previous live shows: the Motown was mediocre, Rod Stewart stank and swing ain't our thing – but this was. What was good about it? • Eton Road won the night with Does Your Mother Know? They're by far the most...
Did we like it? We absolutely love the audition shows; hate the boring bootcamp (too soggy with the bitter tears of failure – and success); and can just about tolerate the live shows when we see the winner's entire career (apart from the obligatory single hit single)...
Did we like it? The audition shows are always TV Gold and this was no exception. What was good about it? • The ludicrously over-the-top production. It's a cheap reality show but it's made to look like a Hollywood blockbuster. Hilarious. • The Swingle Singers-style act...
In the beginning, God created music. But not proper music; the stuff was that insufferable dirge known as ‘classical music’. It wasn’t until the 20th century that tunes actually composed by people were let loose on the world and ultimately evolved into ‘pop music’....
• Although a likable fellow, Matt Stevens bobbed around the stage for his Frank Sinatra impersonation like a rotund slab of metal used to plug deep gashes in the hull of a cruise liner that’s broken free and is now floating aimlessly about the open ocean. • Kate...
Did we like it? Stars? STARS!!!!??? None of these nonentities are stars and we have no desire to watch them when far more entertaining nonentities are available on Channel 4 – and we don't even have to listen to them doing covers of crappy old songs or listen to the...
What to say if you liked it The elixir of salvation for all those despondent at how the cruel world ignores their glaring talent returns to sweep 20,000 people to national stardom – even though there’s only one winner. What to say if you didn’t like it Three...