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The Problematic Gaze

THE GAZETTE: Carrie, Reform Exposed, Celebrity Traitors vs Big Brother & Listener Mail

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Click here to visit our YouTube Channel! We're back! After a week off, we're reunited in the cellar at PG Towers, accompanied by Fontaine the dog, a little background building noise and the usual complete inability to stay on one subject for more than five minutes. And what a lot we've got to catch up on. First, we're opening the mailbag for your reactions to The League of Gentlemen, including a surprising connection to Roy Chubby Brown and some excellent suggestions for future episodes. Could The Mighty Boosh be heading for The Problematic Gaze? And have we been overlooking the deeply questionable world of Mr Men and Little Miss? Then it's time for a little reality television. We're discussing The Celebrity Traitors, which doesn't seem quite itself this year, and Big Brother, which might finally have rediscovered its mojo. There's also the small matter of housemate Rob, who apparently cannot stop singing. But the week's most extraordinary controversy comes courtesy of Doctor Who. Yes, apparently even a preschool cartoon can provoke an internet meltdown. We examine the outrage surrounding the BBC's The TARDIS Crew, where some online commentators have managed to discover a

THE GAZETTE: Carrie, Reform Exposed, Celebrity Traitors vs Big Brother & Listener Mail — The Problematic Gaze