Unlikely couplings

TELEVISION

I had never seen either programme and had until this week harboured a violent prejudice against them. So last week I tuned in to a couple of episodes (both on 18 September) with my quill pen poised to pour righteous scorn upon the prurience and exploitation of what passes for entertainment in modern Britain. But how I was confounded!

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