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Theta Sigma
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| Just as we are waiting to see Catherine Tate as Donna again, Catherine will be on ABC1 much sooner as the third season of The Catherine Tate Show begins next week on Wednesday May 14 9:30pm. |
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Theta Sigma
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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Season 3, Episode 1:
Very good opening sketch of Lauren in a burger bar.
Least impressive were the sketches with the young man who came out as being gay.
Overall a good start to the season. |
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Theta Sigma
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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Season 3, Episode 2:
Wonder how the people of Honolulu would react to the name of the gay club mentioned in the first sketch.
Surprising to see Lauren as a cheerleader and funny when she said "quarter pounder" when she meant "quarterback".
Condoleeza Rice was mentioned to be the National Security Adviser to President Bush. This episode was broadcast on October 21 2006 and Rice had been the Secretary of State since the year before. Given the media attention given to the Secretary of State it is baffling to see why this mistake of her still being the National Security Adviser was made.
This episode featured a parody of Life On Mars only the name of the cop is Sam Speed (Last of the Time Lords' Tom Ellis and that Doctor Who episode also featured Sam Tyler himself John Simm) and the year he went to was 1951.
It has Catherine playing a fifties landlady Ma Willow and hence why the parody is called Life at Ma's. From what I read this is not the only episode to feature Life at Ma's. |
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Theta Sigma
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 5:46 am Post subject: |
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Season 3, Episode 3:
It was the two companions here as Bonnie Langford appears as herself with Catherine as Derek. Not only are they both Doctor Who companions but they both have ginger hair.
In fact I remember looking at Lawrence Miles' website last year in which he made a comparison between Mel and Donna due to them being ginger. One thing I do remember about it is that he says that is one difference between the two - that is hardly anyone was watching Mel when her episodes first came out which was less than half of 9.35 million people (in the UK) who tuned in to see Catherine as The Runaway Bride. |
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Theta Sigma
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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Season 3, Episode 4:
| Theta Sigma wrote: | Season 3, Episode 3:
It was the two companions here as Bonnie Langford appears as herself with Catherine as Derek. Not only are they both Doctor Who companions but they both have ginger hair.
In fact I remember looking at Lawrence Miles' website last year in which he made a comparison between Mel and Donna due to them being ginger. One thing I do remember about it is that he says that is one difference between the two - that is hardly anyone was watching Mel when her episodes first came out which was less than half of 9.35 million people (in the UK) who tuned in to see Catherine as The Runaway Bride. |
As a follow up to this in season 3, episode 4 in the gingers' fight for their rights, there was talk about doing a movie about it. Sandra (Catherine) asked who is going to play her and the answer is.....Bonnie Langford!
The episode also included a parody on 24. It had Catherine playing Laura Powers.
Character description from Wikipedia:
"A bungling spy who is called in to assist the American government with a top secret mission involving terrorists (in a direct parody of thriller series 24), but is so inept at trying to use a computer keyboard that she causes a communications failure which blows the entire exercise (literally, as the terrorists blow up their hostages). It appears that she knew nothing of computers or her job." |
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Theta Sigma
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:22 am Post subject: |
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Season 3, Episode 5:
Love the Lauren sketch in this one as she has an argument with her French teacher including saying "Am I bovverred?" in French.
Catherine as Nan appears on The Paul O'Grady Show.
Paul O'Grady himself will appear in the 2008 season of Doctor Who soon on ABC1 but remains to be seen whether he will again appear together with Catherine. |
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Theta Sigma
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Season 3, Episode 6:
The finale of season 3 included Catherine as Lauren singing "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic.
The next we see Catherine on ABC1 will be in Doctor Who in Partners In Crime. Since she sang the Titanic song it is too bad she was not in Voyage of the Damned as well. 
Also quite funny hearing Sam singing "Don't You Wish Your Girlfriend" song as well as Nan and Auntie Junie (Sheila Hancock) singing a song to close the episode. |
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Theta Sigma
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| UKTV will be showing The Catherine Tate Show 2007 Christmas Special on Boxing Day at 10:15pm. It was originally shown in Christmas 2007 on the same night of Voyage of the Damned and some four months before Catherine returned as Donna in Doctor Who. |
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