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Writing competition 2 - My Favourite TV Programme (July 2001)

Links to the entries:

A - Chris
B - Roger
C - Chris
D - Scatts

An extra:

Earth has not anything to show more square:
Dull would he be of brain who could pass by
A full half hour. A travesty:
This program is, that garment there,
No beauty; better silent. Hair,
Quips, vowels, puns, words, contestants lie
Open unto mockery, take it to SKY;
All bright and twittering in the jokeless air.

Never did one more dutifully creep
In this worst pen, or will they shock or kill?
Ne'er saw I that, rather a calm so deep!
As Richard chideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very numbers seem asleep;
And yet that flighty tart is trying still!

(apologies to WW)