Banned family guy episodes11/22/2023 ![]() Duncan (Liam James) learns about life, love and self-esteem from a gang of water-park employees when forced to go on holiday with his mother and her arrogant boyfriend (Steve Carell). This coming-of-age story is charmingly done and refreshingly original. It’s all headed one way until a chance meeting threatens to spoil their dynamic. ![]() The course of true love is refusing to run smoothly for comedy attracted-opposites Seamus and Janet, but we’re getting down to business in an episode that’s an extended flirtathon, played to the max by Johnny Flynn and Roisin Gallagher. That scarcely buys you dinner on the High Street. If you fancy snapping up a slice of this pricey postcode you could take to the canal life on board Monty, a smart houseboat with two cabins, a teak dining table and oodles of fresh air. It’s not all multi-million pound swanky pads in London’s most expensive borough. Suffice to say this series finale cranks both violence and politics up a notch as it boils to a climax, leaving just enough room for a bizarre running joke about Question Time. We’re at the sharp end of this prison drama and the tensions are ratcheted up in an episode so tightly knotted with spoiler warnings we’d be, ahem, screwed if we said too much. Tonight’s call-outs feature distressing examples of alcohol and drug addiction and the loneliness of the elderly, shining a spotlight on the struggles of modern living. Working as ambulance crew is not all about bandages, banter and blue lights – these days you have to be as much a social worker as medical help. There’s no Pointless swotting of US state capitals here as the delightfully geeky contestants put their IQs to the test one last time. ![]() Taking a tilt at Only Connect’s claim to be the lateral thinking person’s quiz of choice, Puzzling has admirably refused to dumb down as it has brain-fried its way to tonight’s final. The farming Farrows put on a brave face, endure the public embarrassment and end up with a sparkling new home, minus 90 per cent of their tat. That’s certainly the case with a farmhouse in Shropshire which looks stylish on the outside – and more like a landfill once you swing through the doors. Now matter how big the house, we find a way to fill it. Try “Oliver is having a one-to-one with Miss Spicer, the teacher he put in a headlock,” on for size. And while the tone is impressively positive there are some alarming sound bites to hurdle along the way. That’s inevitably expensive and you have to wonder where the money’s going to come from, a topic assiduously avoided here, in this second and final part. But it’s an intense method driven by the need for one-to-one attention from specially trained staff. It boils down to little more than making sure cries for help are treated with respect and listened to and it works. Gentles, a defiantly upbeat soul, adopts a deceptively simple approach focussed on providing the frequently excluded children she meets with the social skills that they need to thrive in a public environment. So what’s going on? Education specialist Marie Gentles points to the rise in anxiety caused by the enforced isolation of the lockdown years and meets the issue head on as she tackles the issues faced by three problem pupils – or learners as they are called here – at Beacon Hill Academy in Dudley. In the wake of the Covid pandemic there’s been a sharp drop in attendance across the British school system.
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