TV & Radio Category
Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
Cockatiel sings The Addams Family theme tune (with clicks)
DEAR Anorak, my cockatiel sings The Addams Family theme tune (with clicks) morning noon and night. I love it.
Anorak says: call us when he can click his fingers:
Posted: 21st, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Alan Rickman is taking tea (video)
TEA with Alan Rickman:
Posted: 21st, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Ass Pennies – how to get ahead in life in 1988
ASS PENNIES – and other ways to get ahead in life. It’s 1988 and the Upright Citizens Brigade are on the TV:
Posted: 20th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
What if Alan Partridge interviewed Pussy Riot? Like this (video)
PUSSY Riot are famous. They are making waves. They have given Vladimir Putin a problem. Did the Russian tough nut handle it well, locking them up for two years? What would Alan Patridge have done? Here’s a video of the TV talkshow host talking with Shonagh McGough:
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Posted: 20th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Woman falls through glass table (video)
THE kids are playing. Mum is grumbling. Mum is flogging snacks. (Typical!) Mum is falling face first into a glass table. Someone is filming it and giving out advice on preventing trips by tidying up – but not on looking where you’re going. You – you despicable so-and-so – might be sniggering:
Posted: 20th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
After the Olympics tears, dama and talent the X Factor is disqualified
IS the X Factor suffering from the Olympics, where real jaw-dropping talent, high drama, great backstories and tears were in abundance? What can the X Factor do to make itself relevant? How can the scrap for phone votes and a contract to wipe your arse on Simon Cowell’s black toilet roll be portrayed as struggle when you’ve just a man with no legs run around an athletics track?
Well, this year wannabes can sing their own songs and even – get his – play instruments. Not autotune. Instruments. Things made from wood and brass. No, not Gary Barlow. Although if you blow into his left nostril while holding your thumb over his right ear he sounds like Kenneth Williams spotting Barbara Windsor’s washing line.
The producers could portray judge Mel B as a nasty cow, encouraging her to dish our pre-arranged Scary comments.
Or they try laughing. Harry Hill is writing a musical based on the show. It will have to be heavy on the funny, lampooning the self-serving, self-aggrandising, selfish judges and their pompous looks of cod shock and amazement.
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Posted: 19th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Meanwhile…in Norway: Gamle Bybro
MEANWHILE…in Trondheim, Norway, city of culture:
“Gamle Bybro”, also called “The portal of luck”, is one of the great land marks in Trondheim, Norway. It crosses the famous river, “Nidelva”.
NSFW:
Posted: 17th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Party Pom Pom
PARTY Pom Pom, by Adam Buxton, featuring Super Mario and the Pom Pomettes:
Posted: 16th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Celebrity Big Brother: at last it’s back (launch night photos)
CHANNEL 4’s decision to get rid of Celebrity Big Brother seems ludicrous. Last night, C4 broadcast Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not, a programme seen by 1.19m people. This was followed by 24 Hours in A&E (2.05m) and a truly pisspoor show called Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (968k). Over on Five, the Big Brother launch was seen by 2.6m. Although 3.5 million saw the launch show last year, the figure are still decent. For all its up and downs, CBB is one of the best reality television shows ever.
It’s the show that gave us:
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Posted: 16th, August 2012 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Alternative Olympic sports presents the magic egg spin
ALTERNATIVE Olympic Sports presents the magic egg spin. (Remember when children’s telly always featured a man spinning plates atop pointy sticks?)
Posted: 16th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Dog the Bounty Hunter denied glorious British TV appearance because of some poxy murder
BRITISH television has been denied the appearance of glorious be-mulleted thunderberk, Dog the Bounty Hunter because of a little ol’ murder. Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman was apparently all set for an appearance on Celebrity Big Brother (yes, it would appear that this is a show that is still being aired, remarkably), but stupid suits put the scuppers on it and denied him a UK visa thanks to his conviction for a harmless murder in 1976.
The Seventies were a different time. Everyone was murdering each other back then weren’t they? But no, immigration swine stopped him and his tremendous mane from being locked in a house to go slightly mad over a series of televised weeks.
HOW DARE THEY?
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Posted: 15th, August 2012 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Teddy the cat enjoys your pain (video)
IN this video Teddy the cat is being an “asshole”. Never trust a cat.
Spotter: Reddit
Posted: 14th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Rob Beasley v Andy Goldstein: football pundits at war
IN recent days the Sun has brought us “Boorish football needs to get the Olympic message” (Steven Howard), “Our Olympic heroes have humiliated arrogant footballers” (Hunter Davies) and “How vile football is back”, by Rob Beasley, who goes on TalkSport to debate his stance with the excellent Hawksbee and Jacobs. Only Hawksbee is away and the god-awful renegade health-club DJ Andy Goldstein is standing in for him. It does not go well.
One of Beasley’s complaints is that the media hypes stories to trigger readers feedback (see out headline about a “war”) and that fans in the stands “eff and blind”. Goldstein then oversteps the mark:
Posted: 14th, August 2012 | In: Sports, TV & Radio | Comment
Flashback: The Indoor League – 81 pints and the Terry Yorath table-football fight
THE Indoor League was broadcast live from the Leeds Irish Centre. Your host was Fred Trueman, proud Yorkshireman and cricket great from the period when only men born in the northern Republic could represent it at bat and ball. Your commentator was Sid Waddell, the erudite Geordie with the common touch. (Read his great quotes here.) In the early 1970s, The Indoor League made it onto the ITV network. It was serious business.
Sid Waddell recalled one infamous bout as he surveyed the room:
“Fred Trueman used to stand up there, on the stage, giving it large in a cardigan. The shove ha’penny was over there … here would have been the bar billiards. And that’s the door out of which I had to smuggle Terry Yorath when the fight broke out at the table football.”
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Posted: 13th, August 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Sports, TV & Radio | Comment
RIP Sid Waddell: the magic voice of darts in great quotes
RIP Sid Waddell, the voice of darts. There was only one words to describe your contribution to the noble art of arrows: “magic darts.”
“Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.”
“Jocky on the oche looking cocky”
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Posted: 13th, August 2012 | In: Sports, TV & Radio | Comment
90s nostalgia: Nineties Boy VS Endoflevelbaddie – Take Control
HAVING used the London Olympics 2012 to reverse the world’s opinion of Great Britain – we are now great at sport and crap-to-average at music – Nineties Boy harks back to the 1990s when things were simpler and bedroom-based:
Posted: 13th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
How to loose a tooth: the brick and string method (video)
HOW did you lose a tooth? The hero of this video used an ugly brick and sturdy string:
Posted: 12th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Unwaxed Kardashian Steve Kardynal sings Don’t Call me Maybe on Chatroulette
HOW does Steve Kardynal update his hits tape? Why with “Call Me Maybe.” Dig the beard, Steve. You look like a pre-wax Kardashian. Are you by any chance related?
Spotter: Cynical-C
Posted: 11th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
29 famous last words – a video of things you should not say
FAMOUS last words – 29 of them:
Spotter: Rhett & Link
Posted: 8th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Two cats discuss war in the UK – video
TODAY’S reasons to be watchful of cats. In this video, two of them talking abut their plans for fomenting civil war in th UK:
Posted: 8th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life – the outtakes
IT’S 1953 and Groucho Marx’s television show You Bet Your Life is on the magic box. But not eveything is fit for broadcast. The outtakes are out:
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Posted: 4th, August 2012 | In: Flashback, TV & Radio | Comment
Elephant does not like being overtaken by cyclist (video)
MESSAGE to Brqdley Wiggins. When cycling in India take care when overtaking elephants…
Posted: 4th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Famous fictional families immortalised in pencil
YOU have to be vain, stupid or supremely confident in your own skin to sit for a caricature. Or drunk on holiday vino and sunshine. Why else would anyone sit in the town square and allow a stranger to draw them? For the famous, it’s different. The artist uses their faces to showcase his skills. Artist’s like Kirk Demarais, who has drawn a gallary of pencil portraits based on some of the silver screen and magic box’s best families.
Buy them at Gallery 1988 and pass them off as your own family.
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Posted: 24th, July 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Jinx The Wonderdog tries to rescue a small child from a deep well (video)
JINKS the Wonderdog wantes to tell his owners that their youngest child is trapped down a well with a strange man. But first they want him to jump through hoops…
Posted: 22nd, July 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
How to stop rednecks from breeding (video)
SELECTIVE breeding in action:
Posted: 20th, July 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
