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    Television

    Feb 23, 2020 3 minutes
    by FIONA RAE

    Good for a Laugh! ANT & DEC’S SATURDAY NIGHT TAKEAWAY TVNZ 1, Saturday, 7.00pm

    SATURDAY FEBRUARY 29

    . The revival no one thought they wanted: , which ended in 1999, was always the television equivalent of white bread, and it risks looking even less relevant in 2020. Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt) are now facing an empty nest when their daughter Mabel (Abby Quinn), who had just been born when the series finished, goes off to college. was not convinced: it feels “like a relic of a more innocent, easily amused time”, said critic Judy Berman, and it’s a show that “has stayed the same amid a television landscape that keeps changing”.

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