I saw something hilarious on Sky News earlier. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be on YouTube yet. I’m sure it will be soon thoough. I’m equally sure that Sky News won’t be repeating it like they do with all their other interviews. Not in its entirety anyway. They were after some opinions on the G4S [...]
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Overdoing it
July 17th, 2012 · No Comments · Life
Last night I watched a documentary about Usain Bolt. It was OK, and Bolt seems like a nice bloke, but right at the end the programme makers went a little bit too far. There is a tendency for programme-makers to try and inject a bit of suspense, peril or conflict into any situation and in [...]
In praise of the OGWT
May 31st, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life, Music
Tonight BBC4 showed an edition of the Old Grey Whistle Test in its entirety. Presumably it was there to tie in with the John Cooper Clark documentary that was on immediately beforehand and doesn’t, unfortunately, mean they are going to do what they are doing with TOTP and show them all again in order. It [...]
Room 101
February 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Life
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 [...]
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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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