TV & Radio Category
Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
The X Factor: the bisexual singer who doesn’t like boys
THE X Factor is the “BISEXUAL” Factor, as the Sun looks as X Factor warbler Shereece ‘Sese’ Foster.
The feisty singer — who Gary Barlow put together with two other wannabes to form a new group — said she loved girls’ BUMS.
But how bisexual is she?
“I’m into girls, really. I don’t know what I am, I just know that if I see a female bum I feel like I have to grab it. I ask permission first.”
But how bisexual is she?
Sese, 22, added: “I don’t like boys or their bums.”
And on with the show…
Posted: 3rd, October 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
1991: Nirvana’s first televised performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit and Kurt is unplugged and contracted in a Radio Shack
TWENTY years ago, Nirvana released In Utero. Anorak bought it. And played it loud. In 1991, Nirvana appeared on MTV’s 120 Minutes to perform Smells Like Teen Spirit. Grunge went mainstream.
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Posted: 1st, October 2013 | In: Flashback, Music, TV & Radio | Comment
What if Breaking Bad was made in the UK?
WHAT is Breaking Bad had been made in the UK?
Note: Mister White is on a zero hours contract and no longer has a job.
Posted: 27th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Man suffers from alien leg cramp
CRAMP. Really bad cramp:
Posted: 27th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Liverpool local walks home in the traditional fashion (video)
TO Liverpool, to see a drunk man walk home in the traditional manner.
Language is sweary.
Madness:
Posted: 27th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Mickey The baboon cops a feel (video)
TO the Lodi Grope Grape Festival, where Sabrina Rodriguez of Fox40 is reporting live. The local representative of the BBC DJs Society is there to greet her.
Spotter: HyperVocal
Posted: 25th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Jimmy Savile stands in for Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2
THE Daily Mail reports that “DJ Chris Evans has courted controversy after impersonating serial sex predator Jimmy Savile live on air to nearly 10 million listeners”.
Impersonating Jimmy Savile involves:
a) being dead
b) grabbing hold of children
c) becoming aPapal knight
d) looking like an identikit nonce
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Posted: 25th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Sex Box: Channel 4 to broadcast people silently shagging in a plastic box
CHANNEL 4 are going to show a programme that will feature couples having sex in a sound-proofed box in a TV studio with audience, which isn’t sinister version of The Cube at all.
Three couples (two straight and one gay) will take turns to step into the box before being asked questions by host Mariella Frostrup and a panel of hooting sex experts in the new show Sex Box.
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Posted: 24th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Selfish vicar ruins wedding to set God on photographers
HOW to ruin a wedding Number 432: get the intolerant vicar to interrupt the service to tell the photogaphers recording it for posterity to go under God’s orders:
Posted: 24th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor: cutting Hannah Sheares and Dermot O’Leary’s knob watch
WHY do you watch the X Factor?
Is it to see The Daisy Chains, the trio who told us “Because if just one of us is broken, we don’t work”? Their fans will hope the band reform after the more talented* member Hannah Sheares (* prettiest and thinnest) ditched her pals and went solo a few milliseconds after Gary Barlow had told her: “You have the potential to go far, but on your own.”
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Posted: 24th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Black rhino survives encounter with TV crew
THIS video features cameraman Kim Wolhuter in a stand-off with a black rhino. Kim survives. As does the rhino.
I wonder what the rhino has to say about the encounter, perhaps that he met a man stood in his path and decided that charging him would be foolhardy because if he hurt the human others humans in the big truck to the left would kill him. His cousin is an authority on human behaviour and will include this episode in his university thesis: why do white humans stare and collect our excrement?
Posted: 24th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The five greatest home shopping TV fails of all time
ANROAK loves watching Home shopping channels. Every now and then you get a memorable moment:
The Ladder To (Seeing) Stars
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Posted: 23rd, September 2013 | In: The Consumer, TV & Radio | Comment
Getty Dubs: stock videos with added sounds to make you laugh
THIS is a compilation of stock videos from Getty Images dubbed with sounds to make you laugh:
Spotter: Getty Dubs, via BlameItOnTheVoices
Posted: 22nd, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Baby misses dad’s beard (video)
BABY misses dad’s beard (video):
Posted: 22nd, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Is Syria a sign that End of Times is upon us? Fox News v Channel 4
IS war in Syria a sign that the End of Times is upon is. Has the end of the world begun?
Fox News
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Posted: 22nd, September 2013 | In: Reviews, TV & Radio | Comment
BBC News presenter can’t tell the difference between an iPad or a stack of paper
LIVE TV is a treacherous thing at the best of times, as a BBC News presenter fond out when he delivered a bulletin holding a pack of photocopier paper instead of an iPad.
Simon McCoy was doing his thing to camera, talking about ‘drunk tanks’ (not nearly as exciting as they sound) when he accidentally picked up a stack of A4 paper instead of his tablet.
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Posted: 18th, September 2013 | In: Technology, TV & Radio | Comment
Penguin designs bride’s wedding dress
SO. The bride and groom are with a penguin. What could go wrong:
Posted: 18th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
BBC moves towards quotas for women in broadcasting: abbatoir workers, as you were
SHOULD there be quotas for men and women? If men are under-represented on a board of panel, should there be more men? Alice Arnold, the former BBC Radio 4 newsreader and BBC presenter Clare Balding’s civil partner, has said that a “quota for female radio hosts is the only way to achieve equality”.
Do we need quotas to ensure more woman work in abattoirs and road building? What about more men on make-up counters and supermarket check-outs? Quotas?
Tony Hall, the BBC’s Director General, says:
“We have got to be more reflective of the audiences who are listening to our programmes. That is why by the end of 2014 I would like to see half of our Local Radio stations with a woman presenting on the Breakfast shows.”
Arnold says:
“Without a directive of a quota from above, the figure of 50 per cent will simply never be achieved. Not because there are not good women out there, there are plenty, but they have to be sought out and given the opportunity…Women broadcasters are as good as male broadcasters. This is a fact. But we are fighting a history of sexism in broadcasting and in life that has gone on ever since the transistor radio took pride of place in the parlour.”
Won’t it be just as sexist to make rules that bar men from doing a job?
Posted: 16th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Superstars and Superfans: Paul Burrell is now as Royal as Princess Diana
PAUL Burrell is plugging his TLC show Superstars and Superfans.
From the makers of Sky1’s Pineapple Dance Studios, Superstars and Superfans follows the lives of some of the UK’s most dedicated and obsessed celebrity fans, providing a glimpse into the eccentric world of these real-life celebrity devotees, while also delving deep into the lives of the celebrities over whom the superfans obsess. What happens when their worlds collide?
But:
This series we meet superfans including Jax who has an obsession with Shane Lynch from Boyzone and has an ‘Aladdin’s cave’ dedicated to all things Shane Lynch, she even has her very own personal fantasy world – “Lynch Land” where she meets Shane and plays out their would-be life together, Victoria whose obsession revolves around Westlife, she has created her very own Westlife ‘hall of fame’ in her hallway, dubbed the Westlife Passage with pictures of her favourite stars, and Theresa whose obsession with Rod Stewart has seen her attend over 150 of his concerts and keeps a momentum of each one in her ‘Rod Room.’
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Posted: 16th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities, Royal Family, TV & Radio | Comment
Teen Exorcists: Bob Larson, Margaret Thatcher and hunting Satan for Jesus in London
A COUPLE of nights ago, BBC3 (the network’s “youth channel”) broadcast Dan Murdoch‘s observational documentary Teen Exorcists, the latest example of media fascination with Brynne Larson and her two friends Brynne Tess and Savannah Scherkenback, writes Richard Bartholomew. The trio come across as personable, good humoured, and bright – yet they are committed to the beliefs and worldview expounded by Brynne’s father Bob Larson, a man who has been a familiar figure in US media for years with extravagant tales of Satanic cults and of exorcising thousands of people who he says have been spiritually oppressed by demonic powers.
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Posted: 15th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment
Simon’s Cat in Mirror’s Mirror
IN this episode, Simon’s Cat ,called Mirror Mirror, the cat is “challenged by a familiar adversary”:
Posted: 13th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Behold the Stoddens! Doug Hutchison give Courtney a big set of balloons
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Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Arctic Monkeys on X Factor and beer bellies
THE world of rock music is a dreary place at the moment and one of the few likeable bands on the circuit are Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys. Whether you like their music or not, they seems to stand for something rather good. They’re defenders of the working classes without being boorish. They’ve always had half decent haircuts. They have fuzz pedals.
And in an interview on Newsnight, AM’s frontboy Alex Turner got onto pop music.
Turner defended the existence of X Factor:
“People get too angry about X Factor and talent shows. Just let them get on with it; you need that to kick against. People talk about how that’s ruined everything but there’s always been shitty pop music,whether it came from a television show or not.”
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Posted: 11th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Twerking Girl who catches fire on video that went viral is a Jimmy Kimmel hoax
YOU know that video of a twerking girl who sets herself on fire? Yes, the one that’s all over the web. Well, it’s a fake.
Posted: 10th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Snoozenight: Newsnight editor says Rachel Reeves is boring – viewers delighted
NEWSNIGHT editor Ian Katz tweeted that Rachel Reeves, Labour MP for Leeds West and Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, is not good telly, even at 11pm when viewers are tying to clear their mind for sleep. Any more of this and the BBC can forget about needing to broadcast golf ever again.
“Tnks … except for boring snoring rachel reeves … playout was fun tho, wasn’t it? telly MUCH netter [sic] than snooooozepapers innit”.
Reeves, who had been interviews by Jeremy Paxman, replied:
“thanks…”.
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Posted: 10th, September 2013 | In: Politicians, TV & Radio | Comment
