TALKING TELLY 4 Plus New Feature Our Woman On Cable Any comments, rants, reviews of current faves, whatever, feel free to email: talkingtelly@onetel.net.uk TODAY I HAVE MOSTLY BEEN WATCHING... World cup fever is upon us, much singing of Vindaloo and Viva Espania around here. Go Belgium, Go Germany etc. ( I have this knack of picking the winners and may spend the afternoon in the bookies). Having said that the punditry can get a bit dull, BBC's Gary Liniker and Ian Wright just about having the edge on Des Lynam's talking moustache on ITV. When It comes to punditry sorry Des but hunky doesn't cut it which is why the most entertaining programme about football at the moment has to be JOHNNY VAUGHAN'S WORLD CUP EXTRA. 11.05pm.BBC1. SUN.MON.TUES. Johnny and various celebrity guests chew the fat in a way which is not only funny but interesting to any one who knows nothing about football. So That's just about every one then. If Leytonstone High Street should ever have a huge 3 mile deep crater gouged down the middle by a huge cyclone into which the whole of the northern hemisphere toppled, shifting the world off it's axis, then Ray Mears is your man. RAY MEARS' ESSENTIAL SURVIVAL . 8.00pm. BBC2. SUNDAYS. is an occasional programme and well worth checking the listings for to see if it's on. Ex army Mears will show you how to survive said cyclone with a brolly and a tooth brush if that's all you have to hand but that's after he's shown you how to light a fire with a bog roll and why you don't want to sleep on the forest floor so make a hammock instead. Mears not only employees his army training for survival but travels the world meeting and learning from all types of people who live in the most inhospitable corners of the world. Thoroughly enjoying SIX FEET UNDER. 11.10. CH4.MON. so far. It a tale of a family of undertakers whose most mundane tasks seem to take on a surreal quality. Also very enjoyable is ED. 1.30pm. CH4. WEEKDAYS. Not to be confused with re-runs of 50's sit-com Mr Ed, the hilarious talking horse. Ed Stevens is a lawyer who lives in the small town idyll of Stuckeyville which is populated by a host of very likeable characters. Ed and his friends are all professional thirty somethings with the obligatory kooky, touch .i.e. Ed's office is in the local Bowling alley. A slick, wry and smug slice of americana, just the way I like it. THEYRE BACK.. YIP!!!! OZ. 11.10.CH4. TUES. This hardcore, X rated Barry Levinson production about prison life should be compulsory viewing in high schools so any scum sucking moron considering a career of mugging and preying on the more vulnerable can watch this a decide if he wants to be a bitch or just raped and tormented all day until he chews his own arm off and bleeds to death (slowly) because he can't take it anymore. Romper Room it isn't. ANGEL. 10.30. CH4. SAT. The tall, dark, brooding vamp (yum) is back trawling those mean streets of L.A for more demons and weirdoes >from other dimensions and I don't mean Hollywood Boulevard on a Sunday afternoon. And last but not least ( got to go and watch Belgium thrash Brazil. OK wishful thinking ) Interior designer Ann Maurice and her camp side kick Aleister Appleton are back for another series of HOUSE DOCTOR 8.30.CH5.THURSDAY. Another chance to nose around other peoples houses....And God is in her Heaven. INTRODUCING..... OUR WOMAN ON CABLE THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL. LIVING T.V. CABLE CHANNEL 111 Well what can one say or feel of you love this soap but despair. Dumped by Channel 5 and then picked up by Living T.V only to be dropped again. Why why why do schedulers muck our programmes around this way. So we're left with Amber and C.J at the altar and Rick racing to her rescue, Brooke and Thorne playing their eternal tune, will they, wont they get back together (more likely when) and Taylor, Morgan and Ridge's baby triangle. Will we ever find out ? Well Living T.V do say B+B will be back in July, here's hoping they do. THE OPERATION DISCOVERY CABLE 130 2 am If you have and interest in what the human body looks like inside and You're not squeamish you'll love this. Each weeknight a different operation is shown, a liver transplant, a hernia repair, breast reduction and transplanting a toe onto half a finger to name a few. They are totally fascinating, you get to see often with the aid of micro surgery cameras your internal world. Once you're past the cutting and you're inside, it's a bit like a living sewing project. Not just for Doctors, thoroughly recommended. Marianne

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