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| The Guardian - Culture: TV & Radio | | | | 'You can't fake this stuff': how we made Made in Chelsea | | by Interviews by Kate Samuelson Aug 30, 2021 | | ‘We were hyped-up versions of ourselves but I became a parody – that’s why I cut all my hair off in series five’ We were casting for another show, Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum, and kept coming across people in their late teens and early 20s who weren’t right for that but were charismatic, funny and led dramatic lives. They were the type of people who used to be dismissed as “Sloanes”, but they were much more interesting than that. The community was very tight-knit: they all knew and lived near each other. Continue reading... | | | | | National anathema: how did the 'Great British' format take over our TV schedules? | | by Michael Hogan Aug 30, 2021 | | The prefix dominates our screens, from shows about baking to pottery to rivers. But its twee origins are now becoming shorthand for post-Brexit chest-puffing • Modern Toss on The Great British TV shows In the Guide’s weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-culture question you’ve been burning to know the answer to – and settle it The novelist Jonathan Coe tweeted this summer: “Looking at tonight’s TV guide, I see BBC2 is offering us Great British Railway Journeys followed by Great British Menu, with The Great British Sewing Bee over on BBC1. Plus a Panorama report called ‘Am I British?’” He forgot to mention The Great British Photography Challenge on BBC Four. In fact, you can barely slump slack-jawed in front of the box nowadays without being force-fed Greatness and Britishness until you feel bilious. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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