Has Ricky Gone Too Far?

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Derek - Cruel Or Clever? See For Yourself! Has Ricky Gervais finally gone too far? After recently cooking up a storm on Twitter by using the word "mong" - an old-fashioned term which is often associated with sufferers of Down Syndrome - Gervais is now releasing a comedy-drama about a man with learning difficulties who works in an old people's home. Starring himself. It sounds controversial, and it probably is. But Gervais's comedy is always cleverer than a one-line synopsis makes it seem. FIRST LOOK: Watch 5 clips from Derek, and have your vote in our poll... WATCH: Katherine Breaks Down On DWTS In Emotional Tribute To Dad Cameron Makes 'Tiny' Change To Titanic - Will You Spot It? Rock Star Reveals He Rejected A Seat On 'The Voice' Sounds Like Rihanna's Staying Out Of Mischief Comedic Twist: 'Corrie' Star To Play Kenny Everett's Wife BLOG POSTS Noel Gallagher: Tales From the Middle of Nowhere (Vol.2) - Apparently I Look Like Phil Spector So, I'm just stood at some traffic lights waiting to cross the street when some guy slopes up to me..."Hey man I don't mean to disrespect you, but you do realise you got a little '80s thing going on with your hair there?" I was speechless. Richard McCulloch: The Loathing of Ron Burgundy - Anchorman and Consensus I loathe Anchorman, and dislike the majority of Ferrell's work. Christmas for me has become an annual struggle to avoid watching Elf. These opinions have often been met with incredulity, and are frequently followed by a relentless barrage of 'hilarious' quotations from the film in question. Unsurprisingly, this only exacerbates how I feel. Laura Cress: Mad Men Minus Melancholy = Meaninglessness We've all had plenty of time to digest the first showing of Mad Men Season Five on Tuesday, an episode that is doomed to be forever referred to as 'The One With Zou Bisou Bisou'. Lee Ridley: Will the 'Crip' Factor Make the Undateables Unwatchable? Tuesday (3 April) sees the start of a new series on Channel 4 called The Undateables or as I like to call it Would You Shag A Crip? It follows disabled people as they look for love. There's nothing like a good freak show to improve the ratings. The advertising around this programme has been deliberately controversial. A series of billboards for The Undateables with pictures of six of the participants has the tagline "love is blind, disfigured, autistic." Channel 4 would undoubtedly say that this was to help encourage debate and things but I doubt a teenage disabled person would cope very well with being told they were undateable. Selina Wilken: I'm Ready For a Harry Potter Remake! Having been to the Harry Potter Studio Tour at Leavesden, I now know exactly what went in to making the movies (spoiler alert: it's a lot!), and I am incredibly impressed. That said, I'm still all about an eventual remake putting a fresh spin on the story!

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