Thursday, July 05, 2007
Back with the flava of the year
PRENATAL! Katie and Peter: The Baby Diaries, ITV2, 9.00pm Labels: ITV2, Katie and Peter, TV
Possibly breaking a record for shortest absence from our screens ever, it would appear that Katie and Peter are back, back, back! as Smash Hits used to say, if only for a two-part special. That's pretty impressive though, considering it seems like only about two weeks ago we were lamenting the end of their last series. Obviously they just couldn't bear to stay away from us. It's rather sweet, really. Awww.
While we've all seen the news reports and pictures of t'new babby (congratulations, by the way, Mr and Mrs Andre!) and therefore this series is rather robbed of some level of dramatic tension, assuming it would have had any in the first place, there's probably still going to be a lot of fun to be had from watching the alarmingly candid couple interact in the run-up to the birth. We still haven't quite recovered from Peter saying "why do you want to bleach your arsehole? It's not like you let me anywhere near it" in the last series. Perhaps we're just out of touch with what qualifies as flirtatious banter these days, though.
Anyway, we're not sure if the entire pregnancy is compressed into two episodes or whether there are more, as yet unscheduled, on the horizon, but we're promised to be there from the conception (not the literal point of conception, because ewww) right up to the birth, with all the ups and downs and overshares along the way. If the previous series are anything to go by, it should be horribly compelling.
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Thursday, June 07, 2007
Petered out
ENDING! Katie and Peter: The Next Chapter, ITV2, 9.00pm Labels: ITV2, Katie and Peter, TV
Something very strange has happened to us. We sat down one week and happened to catch an episode of this show. We were feeling lazy and couldn't be bothered to find the remote, so we watched all of it. And then, a week later, we made an active decision to watch it. And then we got kind of addicted, to the point where we looked forward to seeing it each week. Now that's just not right, is it?
There is something curiously likeable about these two, though. It could be their absolute lack of boundaries (sample quote: "why do you want to bleach your arsehole? It's not like you ever let me anywhere near it"), or the fact that they don't seem to care that the cameras are on them when they have their numerous petty squabbles, or perhaps they're actually just quite empathetic people on their own terms. No, that can't be it. Although this show does make us rather protective of Peter Andre, a man for whom the word "henpecked" could've been invented.
So, last week was Peter's meningitis scare and subsequent near-death experience (ie. the tabloids said he was dead when acutally he wasn't), and this week he gets out of hospital, but lowculture's Favourite Celebrity Offspring Harvey is none too ecstatic to see him. Team Harvey for the inevitable conflict! Also, Katie has a scan and sees her new baby's face. Um, lovely?
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
A whole new series
CELEBS! Katie and Peter: The Next Chapter, ITV2, 9.00pm Labels: ITV2, Katie and Peter, TV
Upon reading this news story a few weeks ago, we felt that some equilibrium had been restored to the universe. After all, America has provided us with lots of great shows: Desperate Housewives, Lost, Ugly Betty, Veronica Mars, Heroes... we could go on listing them for hours. So it's only fair that we give them some of our best quality output: three series of Jordan and Peter. Score!
The three previous series (When Jordan Met Peter, Jordan and Peter Laid Bare and Jordan and Peter: Marriage and Mayhem) will be billed under the nice neat title of Katie + Peter on E! in the USA, so perhaps the slight change in naming for this one is an attempt to neaten up the franchise. Speaking from an anally retentive point of view, we approve of this measure.
This opening episode features our favourite celebrity offspring Harvey having an accident at home (which we assume is the infamous New Year accident), and Jordan/Katie discussing post-natal depression. Doesn't quite sound like the rollercoaster of whimsy that we were hoping for, but we'll take what we can get.
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