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Article: TV PICK OF THE DAY Nurtured talent or a star born to thrill?
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- July 24, 2008
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THE MAKING OF ME, BBC1, 9pm GETTING an actor to talk about
themselves is like getting a fish to swim.
In fact, try and stop them and you could be killed.
"Enough about me. What do you think of me?"
Now, television has fi nally come to realise this and the result
is a show in which actors are paid to talk at length about
themselves. Entirely.
But to soften the pill, this idea is dressed up in a nice
overcoat (the ones that fasten at the back) of scientific analysis.
Three celebrities are lined up to go on a mission to discover the
source of their defining trait, talent or characteristic.
And with the help of scientific testing, the latest psychology
techniques, brain science and genetics, ...