Conscious that I am failing miserably to watch more TV this year, I watched a few programmes I had recorded on V+ tonight, including the nail-biting quarter-final of University Challenge between Oxford Brookes and York. After that I had a quick look on the EPG and saw that the film Mega Piranha was just starting [...]
Entries Tagged as 'TV'
Virgin Tivo
February 19th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Technology
I found out about two new things from Virgin Media today. The first was by accident: a lot of people at work are having trouble connecting their company laptops through our encrypted VPN if they have Virgin broadband and I was looking for possible reasons for this. While doing this I noticed that their XL [...]
Tags: Gadgets·TV·Virgin Media
Reggae Britannia
February 13th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Music
Last night I watched Reggae Britannia on the BBC’s iPlayer. It was a worthy addition to BBC Four’s xxxxx Britanna series but, as always, it was frustrating to see what was missed out. I know you can’t fit absolutely everything into 90 minutes, but not even mentioning Misty in Roots in passing? Of course, any [...]
Tags: TV
Call me Dave
February 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Life
I find this story both hard to believe and hard to understand. It says that the TV channel Dave has lost a case and is no longer allowed to call itself Dave. On seeing the headline I thought it might be because some bloke called Dave launched a vexatious and entertaining legal challenge, but it [...]
Tags: TV
10 O’Clock Show Glee
January 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
“Glee” referring not to joyous satisfaction with Channel 4′s 10 o’Clock Show (though it did hang together better this week, with less of last week’s nerves) but to one of the guests on there: Professor Glees, a soi-disant ‘terrorism expert’. He was such a scary example of swivel-eyed paranoia that I suspected he might be [...]
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10 O’clock Live
January 21st, 2011 · 5 Comments · Life, Politics
For a change I actually watched 10 O’Clock Live in real time today. I had the V+ box set up but noticed it was 10pm and went down and turned the TV on. I was a bit underwhelmed by it, but my expectations were very high. It could have been funnier, it could have been [...]
Tags: TV
The road to Wembley
January 10th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Life
Crawley Town’s FA Cup road might not go all the way to Wembley, but tonight they discovered that it will at least go as far as Torquay.  It would have been good to get a ‘glamour’ tie against Chelsea, Man Utd, Arsenal or someone like that (but please not West Ham!) but on the other [...]
Tags: Crawley Town·Doh!·Football·Radio·TV
Now that’s magic!
January 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
Still failed to drink any alcohol so far this year, but I’m doing well on the telly-watching. I slumped on the sofa for a couple of hours this evening watching the film Wanted on DVD and then 90 minutes of actual, live, TV which was Penn & Teller.
Tags: TV
Resolution fail
January 5th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Life
I don’t really do new year resolutions, but the closest I have got is that I decided I shall watch more TV and drink more alcohol this year. So far I am not doing too well: it is now Jan 5th and I still haven’t found an excuse to have a drink. In fact I [...]
Primeval
December 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
I thought that everybody getting killed or going missing at the end of series three meant that it was all over, but apparently not. That enjoyable nonsense, Primeval, is coming back for a fourth series. The ITV website has a trailer and there will be some preview episodes there next week. It has, necessarily, all [...]
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