TV & Radio Category
Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
KRTV reports that Zombies are attacking Montana
ZOMBIES are attacking Montana. But in a bid to stop any panic, KRTV in Montana announces that someone had hacked the Emergency Alert System. There are NO zombies. Just nightshift workers. Probably…
Posted: 12th, February 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Take Me Out: The fall and wardrobe malfunction
YOU bright sparks inevitably didn’t watch Take Me Out on Saturday, preferring to drink claret and read Chaucer or something, followed by a vibrant dinner party of quail eggs and gout. However, scum like us rolled around in TV muck so you didn’t have to and, by jove, a marvellous thing happened on the dating gameshow.
For those who haven’t seen Take Me Out, it is essentially Blind Date writ large. It is the human equivalent of animal husbandry with Paddy McGuinness as ringleader. A procession of men appear in a ‘love lift’ and try and impress a variety of woman with anecdotes and haircuts.
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Posted: 11th, February 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Domenico Ferrara accused of rigging TV talent show to let his teenage daughter Giovanna win
DID Domenico Ferrara, 56, get all his friends and relatives, and their friends and relatives in Villaricca, Italy, to vote for his 13-year-old daughter Giovanna to win I’ll Leave You with a Song, a televised contest for children run by Italy’s most prestigious music schools?
Giovanna finished second. If daddy fixed it, he needs to get more influence.
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Posted: 8th, February 2013 | In: Reviews, TV & Radio | Comment
Eurovision stars: Yan Kasepava shows Gloria Gaynor Azerbaijan the door
ONE day theEuroVision masters will realise that they are sitting on a gold. Forget the voting. Just play every act that wants to enter the show one after the other. No judges. No voiceovers. Nothing added. Just people on stage singing. To kick of the newlook show, here’s Azerbaijan’s Yan Kasepava showing Gloria Gaynor the door:
Posted: 7th, February 2013 | In: Music, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
1976: the Star Trek cast meet the Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise
IT was no coincidence that the first Space Shuttle Orbiter was called Enterprise. Originally named Constitution (in honor of the U.S. Constitution’s Bicentennial), Star Trek fans wrote to President Gerald Ford suggesting an alternative name: Enterprise. The vehicle debuted at Palmdale California on Sept. 17, 1976. Many from the cast of Star Trek were there to see it.
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Posted: 6th, February 2013 | In: Flashback, Technology, TV & Radio | Comment
TV caption: Boy rides bike without helmet and lives
IT’S a slippery slope from this gateway crime to prison…
Funny TV News Captions
Funny job titles in TV captions
The Funniest TV Captions ever – sex with cotton chicken balls
Posted: 6th, February 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Hitchhiker Kai gives the greatest TV interview of 2013
THIS might be the greatest TV news interview of 2013:
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Posted: 5th, February 2013 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment
A banker goes begging on the New York Subway (video)
TO New York, where a banker is begging. Another man is to keep out of his mum’s house. Tracey is begging to pay her second mortgage:
Posted: 5th, February 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Who says cats are cute? Not them
ISN’T that little pussy cat so cute. If humans were smaller, cats would rip our throats out…
Posted: 5th, February 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (3)
High Maintenance: stoner clichés wasted in marijuana web show
MARIJUANA. Let’s just legalise it. Not glamourise it.
A nameless cannabis delivery guy delivers his much needed medication to stressed-out New Yorkers in this character-driven web series. High Maintenance was created by husband and wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld. They produce the series with their BFF Russell Gregory as Janky Clown Productions.
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Posted: 3rd, February 2013 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
How long have you had an STD? How a news reporter deals with a lurker
TO New Orleans, where Anorak’s favourite reporter is dealing with a lurker. So, “how long have you had an STD?” We go LIVE with Jessica Sanchez Super Bowl centre in New Orleans.
So, how long have you had an STD.
Anorak: Look, I promise was gonna tell you, but you left so early…
Posted: 31st, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Gangham Style and Call Me Maybe announce arrival of the anti-Christ
LET it be know that Gangham Style and Call Me Maybe announce the arrival of the anti-Christ. In this video you will see Psy dancing with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This is, of course, the William Tapley (aka Third Eagle of the Apocalypse and Co Prophet of the End Times) who showed us that Denver Airport is stuffed with penises.
Posted: 30th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Downton Abbey game for Super Nintendo
TIME to play Downton Abbey on the Super Nintendo:
Posted: 30th, January 2013 | In: Technology, TV & Radio | Comment
South Park Correction of the day
THE New York Times regret the error:
An earlier version of this column misstated a plot point in “South Park.” While the character Kenny was once killed in every episode, that is no longer the case. The earlier version also misstated the circumstances of his repeated deaths. While he has met his fate in a variety of ways over the years, he was not routinely ‘ritually sacrificed’.”
The best newspaper apologies of 2012.
Posted: 29th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Murderous EastEnders plots based on life in Honduras and Cabot Cove
WHAT’S the most dangerous job in the UK? Answer: soap opera actor.
How Unrealistic Is Murder On Television?
“In a paper printed in the British Medical Journal, Tim Crayford, Richard Hooper and Sarah Evans reported that the mortality rate for characters in the television soap operas Coronation Street and EastEnders exceeded those of bomb disposal experts and racing drivers. Deaths were generally violent, and recently introduced characters had a five-year survival rate.”
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Posted: 25th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Newsreader falls into canal while texting… and it’s on video!
CCTV footage has emerged, capturing a local newsreader falling arse-over-tit into a frozen canal after being distracted by her phone.
Laura Safe (raises eyebrows at the nominative determinism) works for Capital FM Birmingham, and was sending her boyfriend a text when she failed to look up and found herself immersed in dirty, freezing water. She’s probably got polio now or something, but it is still funny.
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Posted: 25th, January 2013 | In: Reviews, TV & Radio | Comment
The 8 worse acts of censorship in TV history
CENSORSHIP reared its ugly head again this week, as the BBC cut a line of dialogue from the classic comedy Fawlty Towers, in which the ‘old-fashioned’ major tells Basil about the time he took a lady to see India play cricket at the Oval:
‘The strange thing was, throughout the morning she kept referring to the Indians as niggers. “No, no, no,” I said, “the niggers are the West Indians. These people are wogs”.’
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Posted: 25th, January 2013 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
Playing rubbish tennis in Dover (video)
A POSTMAN working Granville Street, Dover, too time out to film two local playing rubbish tennis:
Posted: 21st, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Tweenie Max becomes Jimmy Savile’s most famous victim
THE BBC wanted to opurge the place of Jimmy Savile. The BBC cleansed Savile from its Desert Island Discs database. This is the BBC that came up with the vacuous decision to edit out an appearance of Jonathan King on a 1976 edition of Top of the Pops for a BBC4 rerun. King was convicted and jailed for sex with underage teenage boys a few years back, but what could be the rationale for this show ‘laundering’; this charade that King never existed?
Others to be erased from the BBC’s archives: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ike Turner, Michael Jackson (OK never convicted, but, y’know….), Boy George, Gary Glitter, Sid Vicious and Phil Spector. And anything and eveything they ever worked on, and projects they helped to create.
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Posted: 20th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Incorrect answer of the week: the Family Fortunes *****
THIS Family Fortunes answer is wrong on a couple of levels:
Posted: 17th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Jeremy Vine has ‘a brothel for disabled people and crabs’
JEREMY Vine has “a brothel for disabled people and crabs” on his BBC Radio 2 show. More crab brothels now!
“You’ll never catch me in a brothel,” vows Mr Crabs. “That’s my money-back guarantee!”
Posted: 17th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
TV Weatherman pelted with snowballs in Breda
THIS is how you treat weather presenters from the telly. In Breda, Netherlands, the weatherman has a fast approaching hail of snowballs heading for his face.
This is what should happen in the UK. Forget that cruel and unusual punishment of making them date Lembit Opik. Just Get Doris a snowball and watch the Fish run…
Posted: 16th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The wonderful shadows of the Pilobolus dance group
SHADOWLAND Dance, by the Pilobolus dance group:
Spotter: Michael Kritharis
Posted: 15th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
You are not the father: the best of the Maury Povich Show
ONE recurring theme of the The Maury Povich Show is the paternity test. When the results come in, some see it as reason to celebrate:
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Posted: 15th, January 2013 | In: Gifs, Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
The Golden Globes and other slave auctions
AT the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles, actresses Anna Gunn, Mayim Bialik, Alyssa Milano and Emily Mortimer audition fopr the Roman Salve epic I Vadis:
More.
Posted: 14th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
