Article: TV PICK OF THE DAY Nurtured talent or a star born to thrill?

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, ...

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