Earlier on today I browsed through the BBC iPlayer for something to pass a half hour and settled on Room 101. I had caught this the other week and was a bit baffled by the change in format, but went with it because the new host, Frank Skinner, can usually be relied on to come [...]
Entries Tagged as 'TV'
Holy Flying Circus
October 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
I just got round to watching Holy Flying Circus, which I recorded on Wednesday night. I expected to enjoy it, but didn’t expect to find myself laughing aloud quite so much. It really was a joy to watch. (Still available on iPlayer until next Saturday) The casting was superb, which made everything else work. Darren [...]
October 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
With Doctor Who and Torchwood both finishing, it was looking like I would have nothing to watch except for a few quiz and comedy shows and various music programmes. By chance I noticed two new series starting: Terra Nova on Sky 1 and Hidden on BBC1. Terra Nova is likely to be a bit of [...]
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No more Confidential
September 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Life
According to the Guardian, the BBC is going to scrap Doctor Who Confidential to save costs. Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I would have thought it was a fairly cheap way to fill that much airtime, and bulk out the DVD releases that make so much cash for the BBC. I think [...]
Stephen Fry’s gadgets
August 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
We watched that Stephen Fry programme on the TV last night – his 100 best gadgets. Entertaining but inconsistent sums it up I think. Some of the gadgets were extremely generic while others were very specific. for example, the iPod counts, even though it is just one amongst many mp3 players – and not even [...]
TVOD
August 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
So I am dabbling in the indulgence of using a song title as a post title again but I doubt many people will remember the song TVOD (double A-side with Warm Leatherette by the Normal AKA Daniel Miller on Mute Records. I’m starting to miss my old vinyl) Chrystal is down for a few days [...]
Glastonbury coverage
June 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Life, Music
U2 were supposed to be the big name at this year’s Glastonbury, the BBC have a small army down there and have 4 TV channels at their disposal. So why was it not possible to watch the entire U2 set live without changing channels twice?
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Elton John at the BBC
April 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Music
This evening I watched something I had recorded over the weekend – Elton John at the BBC – and an hour just flew past.   Quite often these shows (Stiff at the BBC, Reggae at the BBC, etc. etc.) have been almost entirely a load of TOTP clips with maybe a bit of OGWT and with [...]
Much Later with Jools Holland
April 27th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Life, Music
Tonight I waded into the backlog of episodes of Later with Jools Holland that were recorded on the V+ box, starting with the end of the one from two weeks ago with Robbie Robertson, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 and Cee-lo Green – fast-forwarding through Glasvegas. After that I moved onto last week’s episodes. I’ll [...]
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Top of the Pops
April 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Life, Music
Like many people, I have been wathcing those old 1976 TOTP episodes on BBC Four with some interest. I must have watched TOTP every week, or nearly every week for the couple of years around 1976 so I’m amazed to find quite so many performances I had entirely forgotten, sometimes by artists I had completely [...]
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