I don’t know about you, but Channel 4’s Iron Flower Arranger is just a tough guy’s version of BBC’s Master Flower Arranger. We all thought that flower arranging “couldn’t get tougher than this”, but we were proved wrong. The format is simple: the contestants are given a selection of flowers to arrange, and 30 minutes in which to provide an arrangement better than that of the “Iron” flower arrangers, who basically look like ninjas.
Contestant Sunita really cocked it all up by discovering half-way through that she had hay fever, and started sneezing buckets over her flowers. She was instantly dismissed by the Iron Flower Arranger, and broke down into tears, claiming that this competition “meant the world to her.” However, Barry from Canvey Island really got the hang of it, whipping up a glorious display of blues, reds and yellows that had the judges gushing.
“Packed full of perfumes,” roared Claire Balding, and that appears to be her catchphrase for the series. Alan Titchmarsh, however, looks a little out of place. A bit like a pervy old uncle at an Ultimate Wrestling competition.
Panorama’s expose of David Cameron’s Big Society was shocking. Claiming a gaping hole in the Conservative manifesto, Panorama alleged Cameron of merely planning to put the word “society” in big letters on top of the white cliffs of Dover. While Cameron blustered and wheezed his way through a thousand excuses, the host – Peter Kay – unveiled documents that proved Cameron had indeed ordered six of the seven letters, and was waiting on “Y” from his suppliers.
The BBC’s brilliant follow-up to Ashes to Ashes, Come into the Garden, Maud, goes from strength to strength. Phillip Glenister is brilliant as Gene Hunt’s own great grandfather who encounters a modern-day cop who has landed in the 1920s, as if by time-travel magic.
Unfortunately, there are no women in the police force, but he still manages to get in the odd sexist dig every now and again. For example, in last night’s episode, he berated a prostitute for looking like “some kind of Charleston gone badly wrong”. Hilarious!
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