MR BEAN

(Sat Aug 18, ABC – 8:15pm)

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Remember the old show Mr Bean, which was funny the first time you saw it, but less funny by the 65th repeat a year later? Well, now it’s back as a cartoon, so you can get frustrated at Bean’s repetitive, dated antics in a whole new medium!

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES

(Mon Aug 20, Seven – 8:30pm)

The show ‘desperately’ attempts to recapture the zinging dialogue and genuine cliffhanger mysteries of the first season but achieves only cheap [Van Der] Kamp, er, camp? I hear rumours that increasingly evil gay teen Andrew will be ‘experimenting with heterosexuality’ in upcoming episodes. How about Desperate Show Writers?!