TV & Radio Category
Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
Flower girl runs screaming from wedding (video)
THIS flower girl is her to help your wedding go with a scream:
Posted: 16th, March 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The mermaid and the Manta Ray (video)
Posted: 15th, March 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
North Korean television features this magnificent report on American poverty (video)
TO North Korea, where we interrupt this broadcast on rocket launches and flag waving to tell you about the sickness in modern day America.
The voiceover is magnificent:
“The American Red Cross provides Americans with curtains – the cotton made in North Korea”
“There are no birds in the trees…”
“A former Republican candidate for Oregon is now having to get coffee made of snow from these trucks… Many Americans have to live like this daily… The weather is freezing, but the hot snow tastes nice… These telephones no longer work – there is no-one to call…. Some lucky people are on bed on floors… Huddled together, the poor, the lonely, the homosexuals…”
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Posted: 13th, March 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Dr Who 1987: Viewers hope Bonnie Langford gets eaten
THE Audience Reaction Report for ‘Doctor Who’ for 1987 makes for an entertaining read. We especially enjoyed the section on Bonnie Langford, who played Dr Who’s assistant. Known to a generation as the sick-faced child terrorist (“I’ll sthcream and sthcream until I’m sthick”) Violet Elizabeth Bott, Langford’s performances had viewers dreaming of her death:
“Bonnie Langford, who played the Doctor’s assistant Mel can only be described as unpopular with respondents. Indeed, 56% of respondents who answered a questionnaire…wished she had been eaten”
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Posted: 13th, March 2013 | In: Flashback, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
The John Nathan-Turner story: Sex, paedos and Dr Who at the BBC
IAN Berriman has reviewed The Life And Scandalous Times Of John Nathan-Turner. He died in 2002. In life, he was notable as the producer of the hit BBC TV show Doctor Who (1980-89). Given the revelations about BBC stalwart Jimmy Savile and other allegations levelled against other former BBC employees, the book’s publication is sure to be of interest to the elite in Broadcasting House.
Chapter Eight is entitled “Hanky Panky”. Author Richard Marson asks: “Was John Nathan-Turner a paedophile?”
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Posted: 13th, March 2013 | In: Books, Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Man uses electric stun gun to catch fish – electrocutes himself
READY to go fishing? Got your stun gun? Plugged it into the mains? Check. Electrocuted yourself: Check:
He lived.
Posted: 7th, March 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Parrot sings Drowning Pools soulful ballad ‘Let the Bodies Hit the Floor’
WANT to hear a parrot sing Drowning Pools’ Let the Bodies Hit the Floor? You do:
Posted: 7th, March 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Peter Wyngarde: when ‘Rape ‘ was King and gross indecency wore vinyl and velvet
THE Daily Mail is never slow to point out, in merciless detail, the physical and sartorial shortcomings of any celebrity, be they great or small.
“When Seventies television star Peter Wyngarde was spotted out shopping near his West London home last week it was clear his fashion sense had deserted him a long time ago” ran the caption to a picture of a well-preserved gentleman in his late seventies, dressed in fashionable casual clothes.
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Posted: 5th, March 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, Key Posts, Music, TV & Radio | Comment
What would you do if you walked into a murder in progress? A video study
QUESTION: What would you do if you walked into a murder in progress?
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Posted: 4th, March 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Wedgie of the day: at the Melbourne Soundwave Festival (video)
TO Melbourne’s Soundwave Festival in Australia in search of the great wedgie.
It could have been worse. This chap impaled his rectum.
Posted: 4th, March 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Insane Egyptian pranksters fake a terrorist abduction
SPOTTING the difference between real jihadis and their fakers is not always easy. To Egypt, then, where the local pranksters are only pretending to be death-loving Islamists.
The victim having years taken off his life is the chap in the pink shirt – a wardrobe malfunction that is most likely a sign that he was asking for it. This one’s for the estate agents, Osama:
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Posted: 2nd, March 2013 | In: Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment
Star of selly telly Peter Simon gets it on with a deep tissue massager
PETER Simon is the star of selly telly. In this scene, Simon is selling a deep tissue massager. He does so whilst lying on an animal-print bedspread. Given that Peter always smirks when he talks about Bid TV’s “ring sizes”, this scene was going to be a hit. He will give it the full welly. As he said: “Even if I’m selling a latte mug with an urbanwear finish and a ceramic lip, it is up to me to make something of it. Nothing is rubbish – somebody out there will want it. If I made a wooden poker, somebody would want it.”
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Posted: 1st, March 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
RIP Bob Godfrey: from TOTO to Roobarb, The Beatles and Henry’s Cat
RIP Bob Godfrey. You created Roobab and Custard, the story of the chipper snot-green dog and the snide purple cat. Everything wobbled.
You died in the same week as Richard Briers, the actor who gave your characters voices.
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Posted: 23rd, February 2013 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Weatherman passes out in morning TV stunt
AUSTRALIAN weatherman, Grant Denyer, has some interesting ways of reporting on the weather, making Fred Talbot (the less about him the better, presently) look like someone gently frollicking through a meadow.
Our Grant, for some inexplicable reason, decided to broadcast from a stunt-plane. A stunt-plane going so fast and driving in such a mental manner, that it made our dear old weatherman pass out.
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Posted: 22nd, February 2013 | In: Reviews, TV & Radio | Comment
How to shake a black guy’s hand – a video guide
HOW To Shake A Black Guy’s Hand. Anthony Robinson and Brett Hamil are here to help:
Posted: 21st, February 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The baby sloth want to give you a present
CUTE animals time now, readers. In this video the baby sloth gives her mama a gift, slowly. This is pretty much how it is at Buckingham Palace. Duchess Kate’s the sloth, trained to please the Queen and her friends one petal at a time:
Posted: 20th, February 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Don’t ask don’t tell with Carly Rae Jepson
DON’T ask, don’t tell in the US military, with Carly Rae Jepson:
Posted: 18th, February 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Is Micky Flanagan going to come and spoil TV Burp?
TV BURP was one of the finest things on television, with Harry Hill and his team managing to make one of the silliest, funniest and most surreal tea-time telly shows in history. When it bowed out, there was hole which was irreplaceable.
However, some idiot is trying to replace it. No, we’re not talking about Channel 4’s AWFUL look at television with Paddy McGuinness. In fact, it is considerably worse.
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Posted: 14th, February 2013 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Did Jeremy Paxman bully University Challenge contestant? Tom Tyszczuk Smith’s mummy defends her ‘shy’ boy
DID Jeremy Paxman bully University Challenge contestant Tom Tyszczuk Smith? No. The action went like this:
Paxman: “The liberties of England and the Protestant religion I will maintain’. Which royal figure made that claim when he landed in Brixham, Devon in 1688?”
Tyszczuk Smith: “William I.”
Paxman: “No, William I? No I’m sorry, that’s the wrong answer and you know it’s very wrong…It’s only out by about 600 years or so. Anyway no, it’s William of Orange of course, William III.”
Tyszczuk Smith: “Sorry, no I’m sorry.”
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Posted: 13th, February 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
1950s: a terribly sad cat plays the piano for Andy’s Gang
IN the 1950s, children tuned in to watch Andy’s Gang. They would have seen this sad cat playing the piano. Sweet dreams, kidz:
Posted: 13th, February 2013 | In: Flashback, TV & Radio | Comment
Die on your arse: Bruce Willis stars in an awkward The One Show interview
APOLOGIES for being little late on this one. Bruce Willis has been on The One Show, the BBC’s bigger budget local news-style telly show. It was painful. Matt Baker and Alex Jones didn’t so much interview Willis as collide with him, Armageddon style. Willis came over as a pillock. Baker was simpering. Jones was creeping.
The choicest cut was when the melting, obsequious duo asked Willis: “When you stared 25 years ago, did you think you’d get a fifth instalment of Die Hard?”
Willis: “Do you even know what’s happening ten minutes from now?”
Add it to the list:
Posted: 12th, February 2013 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
