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  • Tonight, Made in Chelsea, E4's high-end answer to ITV2's high-camp hit The Only Way is Essex, arrives on screens, seemingly underlining the unstoppable rise of the new breed of reality shows combining the thrill of soap storylines alongside the immediacy of Big Brother.

    From The Only Way is Essex to Made in Chelsea: has reality TV been reborn? 2011

  • This year the event hits Covent Garden, with a heady mix of high-camp and meaningful support for the gay community.

    This week's new events 2011

  • While many viewers regard the contest as an excuse to enjoy high-camp dance routines and belting power ballads and guffaw at other countries' quirks, Eurovision is a serious business.

    Western Europe Seeks Eurovision Comeback Frances Robinson 2011

  • The film's commercial success is a testament to how large the audience still is for the fast-paced, weightless, witty, kitchy, high-camp adventures of Moore's Bond, something not catered for by the universal em-noir-ing of the action adventure mode the Dark Knights and Bourneified Bonds of this, our 21st-century.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • "Holmes's commercial success is a testament to how large the audience still is for the fast-paced, weightless, witty, kitchy, high-camp adventures of Moore's Bond, something not catered for by the universal em-noir-ing of the action adventure mode the Dark Knights and Bourneified Bonds of this, our 21st-century."

    Guy Ritchie, Holmes (2009) Adam Roberts 2010

  • I ask, with similarly high-camp drama but equal sincerity, isn't anyone thinking about the children?

    But enough about you. Or me. Roger Sutton 2008

  • First an album of high-camp 50s rock'n'roll covers as the Honeydrippers, then the flatly indescribable Shaken 'N Stirred: whatever Plant's fans imagined he'd end up doing in the 80s, it probably wasn't singing a song called Doo Doo a Do Do over honks of atonal synth and flailing bass.

    Robert Plant: Band of Joy 2010

  • The film's commercial success is a testament to how large the audience still is for the fast-paced, weightless, witty, kitchy, high-camp adventures of Moore's Bond, something not catered for by the universal em-noir-ing of the action adventure mode the Dark Knights and Bourneified Bonds of this, our 21st-century.

    Guy Ritchie, Holmes (2009) Adam Roberts 2010

  • I ask, with similarly high-camp drama but equal sincerity, isn't anyone thinking about the children?

    Archive 2008-09-01 Roger Sutton 2008

  • Forget that it was basically a load of old tosh, and that the central performances in it are as high-camp as they are ridiculous, Super Mario Bros is an enjoyable watching experience- as long as you have no expectations of grandeur.

    All-Time Top Ten Memorable Computer Game Adaptations… | Obsessed With Film 2009

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