{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/695e5ac1adf9f2c53a665a53/6ad272ea7ce338e8cdfef6c5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"THE GAZETTE: Carrie, Reform Exposed, Celebrity Traitors vs Big Brother & Listener Mail","description":"<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@PodcastGaze/playlists\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to visit our YouTube Channel!</a></p><p>We&#39;re back! After a week off, we&#39;re reunited in the cellar at <strong>PG Towers</strong>, 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.</p><p>And what a lot we&#39;ve got to catch up on.</p><p>First, we&#39;re opening the mailbag for your reactions to <strong>The League of Gentlemen</strong>, including a surprising connection to <strong>Roy Chubby Brown</strong> and some excellent suggestions for future episodes.</p><p>Could <strong>The Mighty Boosh</strong> be heading for The Problematic Gaze? And have we been overlooking the deeply questionable world of <strong>Mr Men and Little Miss</strong>?</p><p>Then it&#39;s time for a little reality television.</p><p>We&#39;re discussing <strong>The Celebrity Traitors</strong>, which doesn&#39;t seem quite itself this year, and <strong>Big Brother</strong>, which might finally have rediscovered its mojo. There&#39;s also the small matter of housemate Rob, who apparently cannot stop singing.</p><p>But the week&#39;s most extraordinary controversy comes courtesy of <strong>Doctor Who</strong>.</p><p>Yes, apparently even a preschool cartoon can provoke an internet meltdown.</p><p>We examine the outrage surrounding the BBC&#39;s <strong>The TARDIS Crew</strong>, where some online commentators have managed to discover a supposed <strong>“bisexual agenda”</strong> lurking in the programme&#39;s colour palette.</p><p>Because obviously that&#39;s what children are thinking about when they see a brightly coloured cartoon spaceship.</p><p>Back in the mailbag, we&#39;re talking about the wonderfully unsettling <strong>In Fabric</strong>, revisiting <strong>Tales of the Unexpected</strong> and its particularly disturbing episode <em>The Flypaper</em>, and returning to two subjects that simply refuse to go away: Britain&#39;s rudest place names and the controversial merits of <strong>rum and raisin ice cream</strong>.</p><p>We also clear up a little <em>Dynasty</em> trivia involving <strong>Catherine Oxenberg and Princess Diana</strong>, before checking in with <strong>The Great British Bake Off</strong> and looking ahead to Mike Flanagan&#39;s forthcoming adaptation of <strong>Carrie</strong>.</p><p>There&#39;s also a brief detour into an <strong>ITV investigation involving Reform UK</strong>, because apparently the real world is determined to remain every bit as peculiar as the television programmes we cover.</p><p>And there&#39;s plenty coming up at The Problematic Gaze.</p><p>Our next main episode is <strong>Casino Royale (2006)</strong>, as we revisit Daniel Craig&#39;s first James Bond film and examine Bond girls, masculinity, sexuality and what happens when 007 himself becomes the object of the gaze.</p><p>Plus, there&#39;s more <em>Dynasty</em> on our YouTube channel, where we&#39;re celebrating the show&#39;s glorious camp appeal, outrageous glamour and magnificent shoulder pads.</p><p>So make yourself comfortable, ignore the building work and join us for another thoroughly rambling visit to PG Towers.</p><p><strong>And don&#39;t forget to subscribe to The Problematic Gays</strong> for more Gazette catch-ups, listener correspondence, television recommendations and our weekly investigations into the films and programmes we once loved.</p><p>Now, has anybody seen Fontaine?</p>","author_name":"David Moor and Lee Arnott"}