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Thursday, June 15, 2006

A trip to the dentist

LESBYTERIANS! Sugar Rush, Channel 4, 10.50pm

Despite some less than kind reviews and a few sniffs from the Julie Burchill purists (no, really, such people do exist), the first series of Sugar Rush did quite well on the ratings front. We're putting this down to two things: one, it aired directly after Big Brother last summer and stood to inherit a sizeable audience from it, and two, its central plotline concerned teen lesbians. If that doesn't get the all-important 16-to-34-year-old viewers tuning in, nothing will.

Channel 4, being the eminently sensible folks they are, promptly recommissioned it for a second run and here it is, with precious little changed including the timeslot. Another ratings winner? We wouldn't bet against it. We pick up the story 18 months after the first series finished, where Kim, our intrepid heroine, is still not quite having all the hot lesbian fun she (and the viewers, no doubt) would like, but then she's always got her electric toothbrush. As for Sugar? She's holed up in a Young Offenders' Institute. Not that we know anything about that sort of thing, but that probably gives her more chance of lesbian action than Kim.

It's frothy, it's soapy, and it's best not taken entirely seriously, but it is quite addictive. Best keep the next 10 Wednesday nights free, eh?

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Or even the next 10 Thursday nights, eh? :P
..Don't wanna find youself watching that Desperate Housewives shit!

By Anonymous, at 2:47 pm

There is sugar on the rim of my furry cup.

By Anonymous, at 7:24 pm

Tiny things for you to watch:

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