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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Just promise you won't sing again...

IMPROVE! How Clean Is Your House?/You Are What You Eat, Channel 4, 8.00pm onwards

We get the distinct sense that Channel 4 is trying to double-team us into being better people, and we're not happy about it. Can we not just sit on our entirely untidy sofas eating the calorie-laden remnants of yesterday's pizza from a box crawling with cockroaches and feel happy about it?

Of course not. Although we still reserve the right to be far more interested in what Kim and Aggie have to say than in the so-called teachings of so-called Doctor Gillian McKeith. We still haven't forgiven her for utterly violating our eyes, ears and minds during The X Factor: Battle of the Stars with her insistence on singing songs about rumpo in some kind of key that musicologists will spend the rest of the decade trying to identify.

The only problem is that this rather begs the question: will there be any room for TV in this new celery-munching, dust-busting world? We rather hope so. Especially since at 9pm they're trying to encourage us to exercise as well. Hell, we go to the gym three times a week and we're still feeling guilty just sitting here writing this.

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And if that photo isn't enough to put you of your pizza and doughnuts then I don't know what is!

By Anonymous, at 3:40 pm

the trailer for you are what you eat came on just as i was leaving to buy a bag of chips, how rude.

By Anonymous, at 11:43 am

Tiny things for you to watch:

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