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. . .TV AT THE WEEKEND.
(From The Daily Star)
Byline: MATT BAYLIS
EVEN the cruellest comedy can squeeze the odd warm feeling out of its audience. There was the finale to The Office, concluding with the unlikely event of David Brent finding a girlfriend. And there was Paul Whitehouse's old duffer on The Fast Show, weeping into his whisky as he recalled a girl he'd once loved. They were possibly going for one such cosy moment in LITTLE BRITAIN ABROAD (BBC1) as care assistant Lou (David Walliams) was reunited with wheelchair-bound Andy (Matt Lucas) after a 3,000-mile trek back to civilisation. "I love you!" he said, an announcement that mattered not a jot to Andy, who answered with: "We're out of crisps." It also had less effect on the audience than the writers might have hoped - perhaps because Little Britain, as far as the viewers were concerned, left the party several months ago. The last series had such a whiff of 'so long and thanks for all the publicity' about it, that we felt a sense of doom before this Christmas rehash even began. Sending the characters abroad was ...
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