TV & Radio Category
Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
RIP Selfie Guy: Man Falls Into Dock On Live TV
SHOULD we laugh? Wince? Upload the video then call an ambulabnce? Whilst attempting to take a selfie, this man fell into the dock. A TV camera crew captured the moment.
We’ll know if he lived when the video he uploads his own video.
Spotter: Tastefully Offensive
Posted: 21st, October 2014 | In: Reviews, TV & Radio | Comment
Epic TV: Australia’s Dancing With The Stars Is A Bitter, Terrible And Unforgettable
TO Australia, where Channel 7’s Dancing With The Stars is compelling.
The twisted clown is called Mark Holden. He’s here to entertain yer:
Posted: 15th, October 2014 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
In 1976 Top of The Pops Feartured Legs & Co Dancing To Lalo Schifrin’s Theme From Jaws
BACK in 1976, BBC TV’s Top Of the Pops featured an all-female dance troupe.
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Posted: 9th, October 2014 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
554 Simpsons Couch Jokes In One Minute At The Same Time
554 Simpsons couch gags in one minute at the same time
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Spotter: B3ta
Posted: 7th, October 2014 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Spot The Biggest Bellend On This Season’s The Apprentice: Judgemental Special
THE Apprentice is a great TV show. You get to watch people you would never like to work with.
At fisrt glance, a few thigns to note about this year’s crop:
Robert: socks.
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Posted: 7th, October 2014 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Faith Healers Cure Pet Hamster’s Diarrhea
ROBERT Popper is on the line:
Posted: 6th, October 2014 | In: Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment
Lesley The Pony Has An A+ Day (A Video)
LESLEY The Pony has a great day:
Posted: 3rd, October 2014 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Jeremiah McDonald Explains The Creative Process
JEREMIAH McDonald explains the creative process:
Posted: 22nd, September 2014 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Gary Busey Wins Celebrity Big Brother: ‘Prophet Or Madman?’ Trading Card
GARY Busey has won the 2014 series of Celebrity Big Brother.
His trading cards is worth a look.
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Posted: 12th, September 2014 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Adrian Chiles Gets Ready For His Close-Up
ITV presenter Adrian Chiles at the St Jakob-Park Stadium, Basel, is ready for this close up.
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Posted: 8th, September 2014 | In: Sports, TV & Radio | Comment
Big Brother: ‘Lesbian ‘ Kisser White Dee Becomes The Birmingham Resident’
WHEN the Daily Star declares “White Dee In BB 3-Way Romp”, you don’t know whether to take a peek or look away.
Deirdre Kelly — “White Dee” — is the break-out star of Benefits Street, TV’s fly-in-the-biscuit tin look at the welfare state through the eyes of UKIP recruiters for whom benefits are the disease not the symptom of poverty, poor education and unemployment.
Dee was the Street’s sedatory matriach and protector of the weak. She’s moved from James Turner Street, Birmingham, to a Z-list holding bay in leafy Elstree, where she’s having a Big Brother threesome.
Given that the Star is owned by Richard Desmond, who also publishes hardcore porn, the “romp” holds much promise for sticky-fingered readers.
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Posted: 8th, September 2014 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor Lookalikes: Lola Saunders Looks Like Lindsay Lohan
LOLA Saunders, a 20 year old fishmonger from South Shields, gave a terrific performance on the X Factor. But, then, she is otherwise known as Lindsay Lohan , star of Freaky Friday and LA courtrooms…
Year of training, darlings. Years…
Posted: 6th, September 2014 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
TV Fail: Susanna Reid Asks Dan Stevens If He ‘Beats Off Lots Of Men’
DAN Stevens is on the dire Good Morning Britain. The Former Downton Abbey star is tlaking about his roles in The Guest and A Walk Among the Tombstones.
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Posted: 5th, September 2014 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Game Of Thrones: Croatian Chruch Bans Naked Cersei Lannister From Enterting A Church
NO need to hack Jennifer Lawrence or Rihanna’s iCloud accounts to find naked photos of them – just wait for casting central to offer them a job in Game of Thrones. News is that Cersei Lannister (played by Lena Headey) will walk naked through the streets of Dubrovnik, Croatia.
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Posted: 4th, September 2014 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Your All-Purpose 24-7 Rolling News Report
WITH TV news on 24 hours a day 7 days a week, every story must be teased out to last as long as it can. Even with no or few facts available, the wily news reporter can string things out for 24 hours a day 7 days a week until all the facts are in and we go live to…
Posted: 3rd, September 2014 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Conformity Of Sports Punditry: Gary Neville’s Sigh Sports And Sean Dyche’s Market Leaders
THE football world, notwithstanding the scrutiny of the millions of people who obsessively follow its comings and goings, remains a stubbornly closed community. One consequence of this, as I have noted before, is that it is an extremely conformist environment in which new fashions spread almost instantaneously, and adherence is almost total.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in the language of the game. Words and phrases spread like wildfire and are used automatically by everyone within days Sometimes they spread outwards and infect society at large.
This month’s phenomenon is not a word but a sound – a sigh, to be precise.
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Posted: 3rd, September 2014 | In: Sports, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Everything I Know About Islam I Learnt From Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson
EVERYTHING I know about Islam I learnt from Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson.
What makes it extra special is the “exclusive” banner.
Posted: 3rd, September 2014 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Transfer Deadline Day Is Forever Tied To Jim ‘The Clock IS Ticking’ White
FOR those of you not au fait with Sky Sport News, Jim White is the man who “understands” from “Sky sources” that he has hours of airtime to fill until a team owned by a billionaire actually buys a footballer from another team owned by a billionaire.
Once upon a time White was just another pundit with big black cans on his ears and a windproofed ‘SKY SPORTS’ branded microphone in his paws.
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Posted: 1st, September 2014 | In: Sports, TV & Radio | Comment
Tiswas Does the Ice-Bucket Challenge
TISAWAS does the ice-bucket challenge:
Can you name all the bucketeers…?
Posted: 29th, August 2014 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
James Alexander Gordon and The Poetry of The Pools
James Alexander Gordon and the poetry of the pools
BBC announcer James Alexander Gordon, whose voice was synonymous with the football results, has died at the age of 78.
Although he started reading the results in 1973, in the heyday of flares and platform boots, he seemed to personify an earlier short-back-and-sides era, when the ‘wireless’ was still the main conduit for live football. A time when teams played at the same time – 3pm on a Saturday – allowing for a comprehensive results service at 5 O’Clock, heralded by Sports Report’s stirring theme tune, ‘Out of the Blue’ played by the Central RAF band (and here by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)…
These were not any old results, like those garbled and sometimes unreliable missives that sprang from the manic teleprinter…
No, these were the CLASSIFIED football results, and their significance – aside from the footballing issues resting upon them – was that the football pools relied upon them.
The pools were the national lottery of their day, able to change people’s lives at a stroke. Dreams could come true, but so could nightmares, as in the case of Viv ‘Spend, Spend, Spend’ Nicholson…
Up and down the land, people would sit glued to the radio, in a quasi-religious shared national experience (in the days before people spoke in such terms), checking their pools coupons to see if they had predicted the requisite results to hit the jackpot. Gordon said he remembered complaints that results could be difficult to follow, and he is credited with innovating a form of inflection that indicated the outcome of the game, and made it easier to follow while studying a piece of paper full of tiny boxes.
Here he talks about his distinctive style…
But even those not interested in gambling – or football itself, for that matter – couldn’t fail to feel some affection for the litany of names, which ranged from the legendary to the most obscure creatures lurking in the depths of the lower English and Scottish leagues. Its soothing effect is rivaled only by the poetry of the shipping forecast.
Here the mellifluous Charlotte Green, successor to Gordon, applies her technique to the sacred text…
And here Mark E Smith tries his hand at it. Radio announcing’s loss was music’s gain, although listening to the auld curmudgeon’s idiosyncratic efforts, some of us live in hope that he will return to this fertile field in the not-too-distant future…
Posted: 24th, August 2014 | In: Sports, TV & Radio | Comment
Robin Williams Death Show: Fox News Milks The Dead “Coward’ And Kicks His Kids In The Guts
DID you find the death of Robin Williams entertaining? Fox News sure did:
Posted: 14th, August 2014 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Mic Wright’s Remotely Furious: Forget Football, Forget Athletics, Great TV Sport Is All About Sheds
Mic Wright’s Remotely Furious: forget football, forget athletics, it’s all about sheds
Amazing Spaces Shed of the Year (Channel 4)
With Eurovision been and gone, Britain’s Got Talent over and X Factor still over the horizon, I’ve been jonesing for a televised competition to root for. Alright, so there was The World Cup and The Commonwealth Games but neither of can compare with…Shed of The Year. Presented by the ever-enthusiastic George Clarke as part of his Amazing Spaces series, the competition throws light on a hidden sub-species in British life – the Sheddies.
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Posted: 9th, August 2014 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Crossover appeal: When two shows collide
A trailer has appear which shows a historic collaboration episode between The Simpsons and Family Guy. Of course, everything ever is ‘historic’ because it is something that happened in the whole of man’s annals, however, this one is of note because it is bound to make two hugely popular things and tarnish them slightly.
The special episode sees the Simpson and Griffin families meet up, and they make pals and of course, fall out.
The Griffins visit Springfield and Peter and Homer bond over food, planes while Bart and Stewie skateboard and prank call Moe. It’s all the stuff you’d expect.
The fall-out seems to occur over beer differences.
So, with that, let us look at the (long) trailer of The Simpsons and Family Guy, and also, a load of other brilliant and weird crossover shows.
You’ll be surprised at which of your favourites have locked antlers.
Simpsons vs Family Guy
Beer. Slapstick. Tasteless jokes. Noticing skin colour differences. It’s all here.
Roseanne vs Absolutely Fabulous
Here’s a wonderful thing – two of the funnest, best and daftest TV shows ever written, crash landing into each other and probably one of the most successful crossovers. The perfume scene is still wonderful.
Mork & Mindy vs Happy Days
Many don’t know that Mork & Mindy was one of the many spin-off shows from Happy Days, so it is always worth showing off the times The Fonz and Mork met. It isn’t particularly good, but it is fascinating to watch – like a lorry load of pigs crashing on a dual carriageway.
Fresh Prince vs Diff’rent Strokes
This whole mash-up was designed for one joke and one joke alone. You can watch the clip below and wait for it, if you haven’t guessed what it is.
Batman vs Green Hornet
Batman met Bruce Lee in an episode of the show which involved a daft fiendish plan designed to stop super heroes from doing their job by turning them into giant postage stamps. Seriously. There’s actually two versions of the episode, where the heroes swap roles for their respective shows.
Power Rangers vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Okay. What can you say about lycra-clad kung-fu getting helped out by three zany turtles who can also do martial arts? Nothing. Watch the clip and enjoy the cheapness.
Cheers vs St Elsewhere
Two gigantic, iconic shows wander into each other, with some of the St Elsewhere crew turning up at the Cheers pub for a drink. This kind of thing should happen more often.
Ally McBeal vs The Practice
Two of the biggest shows in America came together for a special which will have passed most UK viewers by because we didn’t give any love to The Practice.
Magnum PI vs Murder She Wrote
Seriously. While this is not the best video, this is proof that Magnum once worked with Jessica Fletcher. That’s amazing.
Posted: 30th, July 2014 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Mic Wright’s Remotely Furious: Trouble at The Mill and Problematic Penguins
The Mill (Channel 4)
Penguin Post Office (BBC 2)
Outside the sun was shining, inside The Mill was on the telly, dragging all light and hope from the world. The first series of Channel 4’s historical drama based on the archives of the Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire was one of the broadcaster’s biggest hits in 2013, presumably acting as a kind of televisual cosh for viewers. Series 2 is shaping up to be no less gloomy with a script that levers in historical references with all the skill of a bemused GCSE student flicking through Cliff Notes.
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Posted: 28th, July 2014 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
