Bonekickers Tuesday (Friday in Scotland), BBC1, 9pm
New Tricks Monday, BBC1, 9pm
George Gently Sunday, BBC1, 8pm
The title is genius. How do you make a show about archaeologists, who by definition spend most of their time ever-so-carefully scraping away with teeny scalpels, sound like action heroes? Why, give them a nonsensical name (wouldn't kicking the bones damage them?) which sounds a bit like "asskickers"! Even better, this Time Team are not real ale-swigging beardies, but are young, gorgeous and not just fiddling about with dusty old pottery shards. They're constantly falling over ancient mystical artefacts which conveniently are also being hotly sought by secret modern bad guys.
Bonekickers is absolutely shameless hokum, and I kind of love it.
To read the full review, click here:
The Scotsman.
Saturday, 5 July 2008
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Bonekickers.
Absolute tosh, but entertaining tosh.
I could have lived without seeing the decapitation, but enjoyed it nevertheless.
It's always fun with these things seeing how much of the trivia you already know.
It caused great merriment amongst our department, who were debating it all merrily on monday lunchtime!
Plus, Adrian Lester is always a good thing.
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