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		<title>Closedown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the recent technical difficulties and all (still not resolved at the time of writing, but our webhosts have now fallen silent, so who knows?) I&#8217;ve been prompted to make a decision about this site&#8217;s future, or lack of.
As of today &#8211; and fast on the back of Ian&#8217;s excellent and final chart of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7893</link>
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		<title>OTT&#8217;s chart of the decade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time for the final update to our list of the most-watched telly of the 2000s.
It&#8217;s a kind of a ritual, I suppose, that began here on Off The Telly back in 2006. Each January, come the publication of the previous year&#8217;s ratings, we assembled a new top 50, noting who was up, who was down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7901</link>
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		<title>&#8216;09 in (quite a few) lines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And here we are, at the end of the usual seasonal flurry of updates on OTT. As ever, we&#8217;re bowing out for now with our review of the last 12 months of television.
It was the year in which The X Factor notched up its best ever ratings, Torchwood turned into a critically acclaimed BBC1 ratings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7877</link>
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		<title>2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As 2009 wraps up, and the &#8220;best of the noughties&#8221; appraisals get under way, what, if anything, from the decade&#8217;s final 12 months will be brought into focus?  Incredibly it seems, 2009 was the year of Simon Cowell, who having been involved in talent shows for most of the last 10 years, still has something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7863</link>
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		<title>Doctor Who</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wouldn&#8217;t let Russell T Davies tie my shoelaces. 
However, I am more than happy to have had him at the helm of Doctor Who for these last five years.   His vision for the series seemed to start out delighting pretty much all of the established fanbase, but as mainstream acclaim increasingly became the series&#8217; bedfellow, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7883</link>
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		<title>Christmas&#8230; logged!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As ever, OTT has written-up this year&#8217;s Christmas telly, for our big and bulky Festive Television section.
Obviously, with nine out of the 10 most watched Yuletide shows, BBC1 was yet again the ratings victor with strong showings in particular for EastEnders, The Royle Family and Doctor Who.
But how did the big day play out across [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7857</link>
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		<title>That was the decade we watched</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OTT doesn&#8217;t have much truck with the idea of a &#8220;golden age of television&#8221;. Every era has programmes that are exceptionally good and desperately poor. If there has to be a &#8220;golden age&#8221;, then it began when TV was invented. It hasn&#8217;t stopped. Not even in the face of some of the telly from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7832</link>
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		<title>OTT fatal error!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wondering why &#8211; yet again &#8211; OTT is fast heading down the gurgler?
Well, thanks for your interest. At the moment, the website has been put on some sort of &#8216;danger list&#8217; by its webhosts, due to a CPU usage issue I just plain don&#8217;t understand. With the Sword of Damacles having over its head (we&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7781</link>
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		<title>2010 visionaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As 2009 winds down, like everyone else, OTT is indulging in a spot of house-keeping and tidying up the last decade of television.
So, we&#8217;ve assembled our list of the shows we feel have been the most influential in shaping the last 10 years of telly. They&#8217;re not necessarily the very best the noughties have had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7771</link>
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		<title>The magic&#8217;s back again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC has announced Merlin has been recommissioned for a third series.
The press release, issued yesterday but embargoed till now, reads as follows&#8230;
Hit family fantasy drama Merlin, produced by Shine Television, has been recommissioned for a third series for BBC One.
The announcement comes as the second series of the Saturday evening show continues to enthral [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7748</link>
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