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Strictly Come Tweeting (29.09.18)

So, we reach week two of Strictly and the voting starts in earnest. There were a lot of dances to get through tonight what with it being so early in the series; so much so, I reached a point about two-thirds in where I couldn’t for the life of me work out which celebrities we hadn’t seen yet. Despite being a long evening I still enjoyed myself, although this enjoyment was sullied by some of Craig and Bruno’s bitchy feedback to Susannah in particular. While I know Craig tends to work in sound bites and will usually give his negative comments first closely followed by the positive, when he only has time to say one thing, I don’t know why he’d go for something completely soul-destroying and unconstructive and often confidence shattering. Both he and Bruno are choreographers and the dance world can be an acid-tongued business, but surely with all their experience they’d know a scathing comment goes a long way toward making a non-dancer want to give up; I know I would. ...

Strictly Come Tweeting (22.09.18)

…and so the live-tweeting along to Strictly Come Dancing started tonight again in earnest. This is what was said; READ IT: 6:19PM: They can't be emotive yet. 6:20PM: I had a dinosaur poo once that was petrified. 6:27PM: No-one defines what I do when I walk down the stairs. 6:34PM: I like how no-one reacted to Tess' "one cool cat" joke. 6:36PM: The vocal sound for Top Cat was excellent. 6:38PM: Queen could perform under pressure live too. 6:43PM: Seemed like a very low-tech camera to film the news with. 6:44PM: I was oozing too. 6:46PM: That's my favourite Beatles song: "We Can Work on This". 6:53PM: Lauren needs to dance to the theme from Going For Gold at some point. 6:54PM: 6667: Lauren scored the Number of the Dance Beast. 7:04PM: Each time the judges' score my PIN I down my drink. 7:08PM: Graziano won't feel the ben...

Strictly Come Tweeting: Launch Show (08.09.18)

And now, with the return of Strictly, my blog’s officially overtaken with my TV live-tweeting. Some might say (probably Oasis) this isn’t a necessary service to offer, and yet here I am, doing the unnecessary so no-one else has to; I’ve taken the metaphorical bullet by providing a trio of Twitter compilations: for this, the Great British Bake-Off and University Challenge; at least they’re all around the same end of the week for neatness. Tonight’s show was only the series launch, so the dancing was at a minimum, though we did get to learn this year’s pairings, or as I like to see it, the ‘Who’ll Have an Extra-Marital Affair this Year?’ stakes (which could go any way). Now, we sit and wait for the weeks to pass until the first show proper goes out; personally, I’m looking forward to it. 7:37PM: Let's hope Tess Daly's had a comedy transplant. 7:44PM: Come back Gleb, all is forgiven. 7:44PM: Has AJ got any older in t...