TV & Radio Category
Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
I can haz magick catburgers (video)
I CAN haz magick:
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Posted: 13th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Quentin Tarantino and the truth about slavery (feat. Krishnan Guru-Murthy)
CHANNEL 4 news has a mixed record with interviews. In this interview, Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks foot fetishist Quentin Tarantino about violence in his new film, Django Unchained. Tarantino isn’t keen to answer. He’s there to talk about the film. He wants us to watch it. Guru-Murthy wants to talk about things in the film that only the critics have seen. He wants to talk about violence. But without the context of the film, his question is fishing for tabloid sensation.
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Posted: 11th, January 2013 | In: Film, TV & Radio | Comment
The most controversial British TV shows ever
THE shows they loved to hate:
The BBC is under fire again – this time for its new sitcom Way To Go, which finds humour in the subject of assisted suicide. It comes hot on the heels of a tabloid fury over Channel 4’s Big Fat Quiz of the Year, in which jaded drunken luvvies made tedious jokes about the Queen.
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Posted: 11th, January 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (3)
Bum sniffer caught red-nosed at train station toilets (video)
TO China’s Hsinchu Railway Station, where a bum-sniffer has been caught in the act in the public toilets. Happily, it looks like this urinator passed the test. The bum-sniffer is on his way, back on the beat:
Posted: 10th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Simon Cowell’s sex secrets remain secret on Celebrity Big Brother
CELEBRITY Big Brother might be all about Simon’s Cowell’s sex life. Well, if you read the Daily Star, that is:
August 14 2012: Jasmine Lennard has nothing to say about sex with Superstud Cowell!
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Posted: 9th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
SPLASH! ITV’s wet diving show in Gifs
SO. Those selfless coves at ITV hunkered down and asked themselves: “How can we kill this tired Olympics buzz?” What can ITV experts do to create a show that will change Faster, Higher and Stronger to and Wetter, Lower and Weaker? The answer was to get five mid-ranging celebrities to fall into Luton’s Inspire centre until the watchful eye of Olympian-turned TV host Tom Daley. It is terrible telly. Lots of bad acoustics and waiting for Jake Canuso form Benidorm to get a verruca around a few decent moment. It is show better viewed as Gifs:
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Posted: 8th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Health nut smokes and eats packet of cigarettes (video)
BEFORE giving up smoking for 2013, and thus giving yourself life-damaging stress and no excuse to pop out of the office / restaurant / bed for a ciggie, you should have seen this video. Thi sis how you give up smoking. You light and swallow all the fags in the house. You might also swallow part of your tongue, tonsils, lips and lungs. But what you’ll lack in body bits, you’ll more than make up for when you fart a cigar:
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Posted: 7th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Polar Bear tries to mate with BBC nature presenter (video)
IN this video BBC nature watcher Gordon Buchanan dresses as a polar bear and sits in a mobile “bombproof” ice cube to film polar bears. In The Polar Bear Family & Me, a title with shades of Lloyd George knew my father. This is nature telly for voyeurs. David Attenborough’s Voice of God has been replaced by a telly presenter’s attempts to be mated with or eaten.
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Posted: 6th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Downton Abbey characters become cats and dogs
KIM Parkhurst has created portraits of Donron Abbey characters as cats and dogs. It might present more plot lines. Did Mrs Patmore Persian Cat add a dead bird to the treacle sponge? Will there be sniffin’ at Tiffin’? Mary Borzoi licks her chops. And we all ask: can dogs use cutlery? Downton is all about the cutlery….
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Posted: 6th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Daily Mail is funnier than The Big Fat Quiz of the Year
THE Daily Mail did not enjoy Channel 4’s Big Fat Quiz of the Year. Anyone who watches a Channel 4 panel-based comedy show pretty much deserves what they get, but the Mail was aghast:
“A primetime Channel 4 quiz in which drunken comedians made obscene jokes about the Queen has outraged viewers. The Big Fat Quiz Of 2012, which featured countless vile sexual jokes, was broadcast on Sunday only seconds after the 9pm watershed….Last night TV watchdog Ofcom confirmed it had already received complaints.”
How many?
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Posted: 4th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Chuck Giampa takes us inside the mind of a boxing judge (video)
CHUCK Giampa will now take us inside the mind of a boxing judge:
Posted: 4th, January 2013 | In: Sports, TV & Radio | Comment
Face of the day: the Late Late Show legend
FACE of the day – you work it girl:
Posted: 2nd, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Why you’re addicted to watching Christmas TV
ON the addiction of watching Christmas TV, Tom Stafford notes:
Normally wanting and liking are tightly bound together. We want things we like and we like the things we want. But experiments by the University of Michigan’s Kent Berridge and colleagues show that this isn’t always the case. Wanting and liking are based on separate brain circuits and can be controlled independently. …
But in addiction, the theory goes, the circuits can become uncoupled, so that you get extreme wanting without a corresponding increase in pleasure. Matching this, addicts are notable for enjoying the thing they are addicted toless than non-addicts. This is the opposite of most activities, where people who do the most are also the ones who enjoy it the most. (Most activities except another Christmas tradition, watching television, where you see the same pattern as with drug addictions – people who watch the most enjoy it the least).
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Posted: 26th, December 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Daily Express hate TV repeats – broadcasts Ben Hur
WHAT’S on the telly at Christmas? The Daily Express is worried:
“Christmas viewers will be deluged with almost 100 hours of repeats. A Sunday Express study of the 2012 schedules found that a staggering level of old series and re-run films will be broadcast by the three main channels over Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day…”
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Posted: 25th, December 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Basse Andersen from Arendal is the world’s most easily scared human
BASSEAndersen from Arendal (Norway) scares easily:
Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Excited North Korean TV news anchor hails launch of Unha 3 rocket
THIS is how you read the news. You do away with the ticks, head tilts and the eyes narrowing used by BBC presenters to showcase their personal like or dislike of stories; you just go for it. This is a special news bulletin from North Korea. The presenter is announcing launch of an Unha 3 rocket carrying a satellite. Glory be!
Posted: 12th, December 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Spike Jones tooting turkey fights woman
HAD this women been around when the Pilgrims hit what would become the USA, today’s Thanksgiving diners would be chowing down on something you could stamp on, such as stuffed ant.
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Posted: 12th, December 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Indian mum says ‘no acid until you’ve cleaned your room’
TO India, where the dancing boy (?) is being told by his mother: “No acid until you’ve cleaned your room.” Then it’s child for himself:
Posted: 7th, December 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
A hamster climbs the stairs (video)
A HAMPSTER makes its way upstairs. Why? What’s behind it? What’s at the top. There’s a TV series in this, with cartoon tie-in:
Posted: 7th, December 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (3)
Sydney radio hosts prank Kate Middleton’s hospital
SYDNEY radio DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian from 2Day FM called King Edward VII Hospital pretending to be the Queen and Prince Phil.
They say:
“We were very surprised that our call was put through. We thought we’d be hung up on as soon as they heard our terrible accents. We’re very sorry if we’ve caused any issues and we’re glad to hear that Kate is doing well. 2Day FM sincerely apologises for any inconvenience caused by the inquiries to Kate’s hospital. The radio segment was done with lighthearted intentions. We wish Kate and her family all the best and we’re glad to hear she’s doing well.”
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Posted: 5th, December 2012 | In: Royal Family, TV & Radio | Comment
Union J fan woman screams what we’re all thinking at X Factor (VIDEO)
THE single greatest thing the X Factor has given the UK, is that for one night a week, we’re unified in bewildered hatred. Of course, there’s the berks who hate it because they sneeringly prefer ‘real music’ by ‘people who write their own music’ (warning: Chris De Burgh wrote his own songs and half of Motown didn’t). The best people enjoy the show and the hatred it stirs.
X Factor is the only time Britain is truly alive.
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Posted: 4th, December 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
