Who won the battle for TV Britain? Elsewhere,we learned that this year’s X Factor bootcamp isn’t for the faint-hearted, and maybe Gogglebox is all anyone ever needs to watch At 9pm, and across three channels,we had the Battle of Middle Britain: Tory voters and the apolitical were doing their ironing to Downton Abbey (Sunday, ITV1); novel Labour supporters (currently replacing shy Tories as the Voters Who Dare Not Speak Their Name) were watching This is England ’90 (Sunday, or Channel 4); and everyone else was watching The Go-Between (Sunday,BBC1). On Twitter, it was also famous that there was a further clash with Keeping Up with the Kardashians (presumably the Corbynite guilty pleasure): “It’s a TiVo meltdown nightmare.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com