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Monday, June 19, 2006

Save a horse...

YEEHAW! For One Night Only: City Cowboys, ITV1, 9.00pm

Disclaimer: This picture is in no way meant to reflect on the sexual preferences of the people taking part; it's purely a rubbish joke, okay?Of course, the thing is that thanks to the combined efforts of Annie Proulx, Ang Lee, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal (amongst others, obviously), there are certain connotations that spring to mind these days when the word "cowboy" gets mentioned. Nonetheless, we're going to get through this entire preview without a single Brokeback Mountain (and before anyone decides to comment to this effect, yes we know they were ranch hands and not cowboys, but try telling the world at large that).

Aaaaanyway, this is the latest in ITV's occasional strand of Faking It-type show where a bunch of people try something really random, and hopefully succeed in a heartwarming kind of fashion. This time it's the turn of six well-paid city lawyers to take the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be cowboys at a Texan rodeo, with every chance of having a humiliating (not to mention dangerous and painful) accident in front of thousands of people.

We haven't seen any preview tapes or anything (exactly how important do you think we are?), but it all sounds a bit charming, and we're complete suckers for this type of format, especially if they triumph in the end. Plus it'll hopefully get us feeling all nice and calm and life-affirmed right in time for us to develop that creepy, unclean feeling we're bound to get from watching Big Love on Five afterwards. Anybody else having that problem?

(We apologise for the use of that picture given our no-Brokeback jokes promise, but ITV didn't appear to have any pictures of this show for us to steal.)

Also tonight: Steve Coogan returns with new sitcom Saxondale on BBC2 at 10pm. We have no idea what it's about, but we suspect it's definitely worth a look.

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fair play on not mentioning Brokeback mountain but you didn't notice it's all based on 'City Slickers' which had Billy Crystal and the skinny burglar from Home Alone (who also was the voice over in The Wonder Years) - it may also have ripped off 'City Slickers 2 : The search for Curly's gold' - but we can't tell yet. - Junky

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Keep up the good work
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