You might not recognise him with so much hair, but former Emmerdale star Danny Miller joins the ranks this week as the suspiciously young-looking Sergeant Rob Waddington.īut he doesn’t get much screen time in a show where it’s the women who get to call the most interesting shots. Worryingly, this isn’t a joke even though America’s gun laws are worthy of a bad taste mural all of their own. You’ll be asking yourself whether these idiots should really be running around the woods with firearms – right before someone gets shot. Fans who have taken the perky Leslie to their hearts will be jolted out of this cosy love affair by her skill with a hunting rifle. Each department is asked to come up with a new design.īut the second episode captures another, even weirder side of small-town American life as Leslie (Amy Poehler) tries to prove she’s just one of the guys by gate-crashing the all-male office hunting trip. Tonight one of them, The Spirit Of Pawnee (a charming landscape in which a pig-tailed Chinese work gang and white folk guffaw at the sight of Indians being hit by a train) has been vandalised and must be replaced. The offensive murals that adorn the walls of Pawnee’s city hall depicting its proud racist past are a running joke on this show. But programmes like this could be one way of stopping a driving licence from becoming a licence to kill. No one would dare suggest that, of course. The part of the brain that controls risk-taking doesn’t develop until our mid-20s, which means there’s an argument to be made for raising the driving age. This hour-long film contains horrific CCTV footage of the moment 18-year-old Manchester City player Courtney Meppen-Walter crashed his speeding Mercedes into another car, killing two of its occupants, and Sophie follows him through his police interview and the courts. Intelligent, honest, insightful and still haunted by the lapse of reason that changed her life for ever, Sophie puts many more experienced presenters to shame. “What is it that turns people like me into maniacs when we first get behind the wheel?” she asks. She’s spent the last decade in a wheelchair and if anyone is qualified to send a wake-up call to young drivers, it’s her. Just six months after passing her test, Sophie was left paralysed from the waist down when she was speeding and her car flipped over. One of those was this show’s presenter Sophie Morgan, who you may have seen in Britain’s Missing Top Model and Beyond Boundaries. Traffic collisions are the single biggest killer of young people in Britain, and a fifth of all young drivers will have a serious accident in the first year of getting their licence. BBC Three comes in for a fair amount of flak for some of the drivel it shoves at its target audience of 16 to 34-year-olds – but it has the power to be a force for good as well.Ĭonsider these statistics.
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