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‘Hollyoaks’ star Amy Downham’s TV choices

Amy Downham joins the cast of Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks this week as bohemian new teacher Jen Gilmore. Tilly is swept off her feet by the fiery newcomer, but is shocked when she discovers who Jen really is.

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We caught up with Amy to find out what she likes to watch to relax between filming…

TV show to cheer you up:

“Anything that makes my sides hurt from laughing! I love Would I Lie to You or a good bit of stand-up like Michael McIntyre or Lee Mack.”

TV show to watch before going to sleep:

“I love a good drama just before I sleep, like a bedtime story! Recent favourites have been Downton Abbey, Birdsong and White Heat.”

Favourite “guilty pleasure” TV show:

“No telling ok?! For my sins it’s Made in Chelsea… I’m actually pretty excited about the next episode.”

TV show that reminds you of your childhood:

“I didn’t have TV until I was 18 so I was deprived of the joys of childhood TV! I’m a dab hand at arts and crafts though!”

TV show that reminds you of being a teenager:

“Still no TV… but we had neighbours who did! Every Thursday night we’d go over and watch Strange but True, a pretty dire supernatural documentary, but back then I loved it!”

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‘The stuff of legend…’

The appetite of YouTubers for homemade Doctor Who trailers is insatiable, and although there are as many KFC buckets as gourmet feasts (and, to be fair, a lot of indigestible horrors, too), some of the very best have an enduring appeal. True, this 50th anniversary promo does go on as long as an eighteen-course banquet, … >

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‘Traffic was a killer…’

Another fine example of Hollywood royalty raking in the filthy lucre of advertising demonstrated here, as Pierce Brosnan gets all Bondian on behalf of Visa. Stuck in a traffic jam, the suave one ditches his limo for a motorised rickshaw and gets – as he might quip in other, more coital scenarios – the ride … >

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‘It was a cold, wet night in November… 22 years ago…’

Despite what we’ve seen in CultBoxed previously, the true nadir of Doctor Who-related pop songs didn’t come in the Sixties or Seventies; it was in 1985 – during the programme’s first cancellation crisis – that the worst came to the worst. Along with such luminaries as David Van Day, Hazell Dean, Jona Lewie and the … >

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‘Stop being such a pussy… NOW!’

Yet another take on dubbing another actor’s voice into Darth Vader’s scenes in Star Wars – it’s basically a geekier version of the Downfall parodies, really, only without the attendant sense that it’s been done to death. This time, in an extended cut, it’s the turn of Arnold Schwarzenegger to don the helmet and mask … >

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‘AMY and RORY level up… they are now PARENTS!’

Sometimes, a video turns up online that is just so joyously perfect that the moment it finishes, you want to watch it again. This is just such a clip – the adventures of the Tenth Doctor and his companions turned into a Super Nintendo game. From his first appearance – ‘DOCTOR used FISH FINGERS and … >

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‘Ask it how to handle a woman…’

It’s a fact of life that even the biggest names in acting sometimes sully themselves in the murky world of advertising. These days, it’s no surprise to see Uma Thurman flogging cars or Kate Winslet demonstrating her breathiest dramatic pauses to encourage viewers to tune into Sky Movies, but you wouldn’t expect to find them … >

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‘Woman, get back in here and make me a sandwich!’

Okay, so it worked in the end, and Fox Mulder finally ended up copping off with the most beautiful woman in the history of the FBI – Dana Scully, obviously, no matter what you apologists for Monica Reyes and Diana Fowley might say – but his skill at flirting with his glamorous fellow agent was … >

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