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"The last scenes of the BBC drama Monarch of the Glen have been filmed."
That was the heartening headline from BBC News this week, promising that the last five painful years characterised by acting and plots of excruciating crappness are drawing to a close.

As the long-term reader of The JT knows only too well, here at JT mansions we have been forced in several occasions to lament the success of MOTG, and we take no pleasure in retailing our previous coverage of this offence against civilised values. Talking to himself the Editor said: "If we forget the lessons of history we are doomed to repeat them. As a service to humanity and as an excuse to recycle old gags we present below, the collected JT coverage of the horror that is MOTG."

In April 2000 we warned Scots of the grave alimentary consequences of not turning off the TV when the show came on.

In April 2001, we reported on an all too brief let up in tartan-pish 

While in June 2001 we chronicled the attempts of the BBC management to painfully wean themselves off the horrifyingly addictive drug that is MOTG.

And in March 2003 we returned again to the troubling topic of tablet, allowing us to recycle an old gag then just like we’re doing now.

Inside: Have you or any of your family been effected by watching MOTG? If you’re English, just forget about it. If you’re Scottish, what were you doing watching it in the first place?
July 2005

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