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- Dave Gorman points out things he finds strange about modern life.
- Professor David Spiegelhalter tries to pin down what chance truly is and how it works in the real world. With his unique storytelling method, he applies a blend of wit and wisdom, animation, graphics, and gleeful nerdery to the joys of chance and the mysteries of probability. It is a vital branch of mathematics that tells us what might happen in the future based on the events of the past.
- Professor Hans Rosling shares his excitement with statistics, and shows how researchers are handling the modern data deluge.
- Follows Hayley Taylor as she assists job-challenged families to motivate them to get back on the payroll.
- For George is a poignant and gently funny look at three generations of a family as they come together for the funeral of ballroom dancing champion, George. Seven year old Bobbie is comforted by his own explanation of the great mystery of death - that in fact Great Uncle George has been rescued from the box by Jesus and taken back to Birmingham. A young nervous Priest begins the day preparing for his first ever funeral mass with the same nerves and expectation of an actor on an opening night. As the middle generation struggles to find it's way, grief and betrayal threaten to dissolve the glue that holds the family together. Bobbie and the older generation though, know how to celebrate George's life and with that wonderful affinity that exists between the very young and the elderly, they set about doing exactly what he would have wanted - dancing. This is a party that George would would not have wanted to miss - and who knows maybe he won't.
- Sports personalities perform stand up comedy for the first time in front of a live audience, with the help of their comedy mentors.
- Amanda meets her match as she takes on the dark second bedroom and aims to transform it into a country-chic boudoir inspired by the Tuscan sunrise.
- The DIY duo face their biggest challenge yet, as Alan aims to transform the medieval tower room into a cinema, while Amanda hopes to turn her damp ridden cellar into a wine grotto.
- Amanda and Alan are on the home stretch as they renovate the kitchen and reveal their restored 17th-century house to their Tuscan friends with an emotional farewell party.
- 2013–20178.0 (20)TV EpisodeWith the aid of a laptop, a clicker and PowerPoint Dave delves into stupid questions asked on the internet, Alan Sugar and social media marketing.
- Dave vents at newspaper headline hyperbole, moves onto celebrities, both major and minor, and their lookalikes, and covers everything from A to um.. well, you decide.
- Dave annoys his wife to prove a point, explores the blister-pack economy and tries to make a quick (though hard-earned) profit, rails against weird envelopes (and then teases postmen with them), ropes in the Fijians via their dollars, and embarrasses a rich guy.
- 2013–20178.0 (12)TV EpisodeMisunderstood definitions, lotteries, greetings cards, presents, royal weddings, gifts and Marmite get the treatment from the check-shirted, bearded one..
- With the aid of his trusty PowerPoint Dave reviews online reviews, pedantically takes a dishwasher product to task via Venn diagrams and maths, employs legerdemain to expose gullibility, lyricises over horsemeat and circles back to (unsuccessfully) annoy his wife via dishwasher products and more Venn diagrams.
- 2013–20178.0 (13)TV EpisodeDave takes his trusty remote control and guides us through divine images, online outrage and faiths. With extra Found Poem!
- In this series 2, episode 1 full episode of Modern Life is Goodish, Dave Gorman finds and develops a camera that has some rather uncompromising photographs on them.
- 2013–20177.6 (14)TV EpisodeLlanfair.. um, that place, makes Dave kick off about the nature of truth, facts and 'fun facts', actually. It's the real deal, same as always!
- 2013–20177.3 (15)TV EpisodeCelebrity lifestyles and how (not) to attain them, things you didn't know (still) existed and endorsements, royal and otherwise, Dave puts his twist on them all.
- Cats, coffee, qr codes, cars and web sites get the Gorman treatment.
- 2013–20178.1 (20)TV EpisodeA laptop, a remote control and a big screen.. what more do you require to discuss manners, doppelgangers, e-petitions, obscene coinage, naughty bath snaps and slow romances in Letchworth.
- Bizarre ads, spam, tweets (and poor old Lord Sugar), dogging (and other) stories in regional papers, awkward proposals, tonight's show is about "messages that are travelling at an inappropriate scale" (sic).
- Superlatives, greatest hits, advertising overstatements and awards are dissected with the help of PowerPoint. Luxury audience give-aways, world records and quotes round off the evening.
- 2013–20177.6 (14)TV EpisodeDave reaches perfection with his wife but has to do better next year; the metaphor is extended to food and drink, deodorants, light bulbs and coins..
- 2013–20177.7 (14)TV EpisodeOh dear. Dave discusses food, car and property porn, renovations and ruined surprises due to overly explained descriptions and, um, sorry Dave.. want to know more? Tune in to tonight's show.
- 2013–20177.9 (15)TV EpisodeAntics and tactics in queues, Dave discusses British manners.
- 2013–20177.5 (12)TV EpisodeCommunications, pronunciation, homonyms and commercialisation, Dave covers all that and introduces his new catphrase!
- 2013–20177.7 (11)TV EpisodeUnwanted gifts, twitter and twitter weirdos get Dave buzzing..
- Lies, gullibility, how-to guides, elephants, insults, flag-burning and tracking down an identity thief.. Dave links his way through these and more with the aid of his laptop, a remote control and a big screen.
- Dave quite likes a Puzzle. Dave gets up to mischief once again while messing around with Puzzles featuring Tom Jones, Sir Alan Lord Sugar and much more.
- 2013–201745m7.3 (16)TV EpisodeArmed with his trademark computer, clicker and checked shirt comedian Dave Gorman asks if a knock-off can ever be as good as the genuine article examining DVDs, baking and Bucks Fizz.