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School of Saatchi, Gracie! and Mouth to Mouth | TV review
24 November 2009 2:52 AM, PST
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Yoohoo! Has anyone seen Charles Saatchi? He doesn't seem to be in his own show, says Tim Dowling
Making an art programme in the same mould as The Apprentice and The X-Factor raises the question of whether we now regard modern art as being part of the same industry – the industry of selling crap. A lot of people would probably say this has been the case for a long time, and that television has only just caught up with our cynicism.
In fact, School of Saatchi (BBC2) appears to be a sort of rescue mission, a genuine attempt to separate wheat from chaff, to weed out the chancers and leave the viewer with a real sense of why something modern might be worthy of being considered art. The four judges are Tracey Emin, Kate Bush (not that one, the curator one), critic Matthew Collings and collector Frank Cohen, here described
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- Tim Dowling
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Shaun the Sheep | School of Saatchi | Mouth to Mouth | Gracie! | Watch this
22 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST
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Shaun the Sheep | School of Saatchi | Mouth to Mouth | Gracie!
Shaun the Sheep
4.20pm, BBC1
He may not have the brand recognition of Wallace and Gromit among adults, but chances are that any anklebiters in your vicinity will already be well-versed in the ways of Shaun the Sheep. For the uninitiated, though: Nick Park's cheeky farmyard dweller made his debut back in 1995 in A Close Shave, before getting his own series in 2007. His adventures consist largely of pulling the wool over the eyes of the Farmer and Bitzer, the long-suffering sheepdog. Terrific fun, showing daily.
School of Saatchi
9pm, BBC2
There are those who will claim it's entirely logical to combine modern art with reality TV. Aren't both about the talentless jostling for the limelight? Possibly, but this is still a tremendous idea: a bunch of unknown artists compete for the patronage of "the reclusive" – and, some would add,
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- Jonathan Wright, Will Hodgkinson
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