TV & Radio Category
Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
Pat Paulsen plays The Beatles Hey Jude
PAT Paulsen and the Pat Paulsen Players will not perform their cover version of The Beatles Hey Jude. You may recall the star of Pat Paulsen’s Half a Comedy Hour, whose satire was lightning up the airwaves.
In 1968, The Mothers Brothers put Paulsen forward to be president of the USA as a member of the Straight Talking American Government Party (S.T.A.G. Party). Said Paulsen, who would run seven times, of his bid for the presidency: “Why not? I can’t dance.”
He died in 1997.
Take them away without mercy, Pat Paulsen:
Spotter: DM
Posted: 23rd, June 2012 | In: Flashback, Music, TV & Radio | Comment
Burgess Hill: where ambulances come from other planets (video)
TO Burgess Hill, where the local ambulance is communicating with creatures from other planets, namely The Clangers (bit NSFW):
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Posted: 19th, June 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
When ducklings attack! A video
WHEN ducklings attack!
Posted: 18th, June 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
How to give a bat the hiccups (video)
DEAR, Anorak, HOW do you give a bat the hiccups?
Like this:
Posted: 18th, June 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Damien Seaton commentates on the Elwick barrier trials in Tasmania (Lt Cdr Thomas Woodroffe is away)
TO Australia, to hear horse racing commentator Damien Seaton take us through the Elwick barrier trials in Tasmania, last Tuesday morning:
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Posted: 17th, June 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Alternative Olympic Sports: aeroplane gymnastics
ALTERNATIVE Olympic Sports: aeroplane gymnastics….
Posted: 12th, June 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Saudi Arabia bans women and music from Saudi Got Talent TV show
TO Saudi Arabia, where Saudi Got Talent has been making waves:
A Saudi city known for its ultra-conservatism has created its own version of the “Arabs Got Talent” television reality show, but with no music and women banned from taking part.
Dogs, blessedly, are in….
Posted: 11th, June 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)
The world’s smallest police chase (video)
THE World’s smallest police chase using the world’s smallest video projectors:
Speed of Light / aka / The World’s Tiniest Police Chase from The Theory on Vimeo.
Posted: 8th, June 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Overly attached girlfriend – the video that sparked a meme
OVERLY attached girlfriend sparked a meme. Justin Bieber is so very young….
Posted: 8th, June 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Vicks the Rotterdam polar bears tries to break out
TO Rotterdam, where the local zoo’s polar bear, Vicks, is larking about:
Spotter: Arbroath
Posted: 8th, June 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Those crazy Russians climb a radio tower
THOSE crazy Russians climb a radio tower:
Then, when the wind is high, they do it again:
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Posted: 8th, June 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The most honest dishonest thieves explain their crime (video)
THE most honestly dishonest thieves of the day are refreshing us with their vapid candor. They understand that the media will love them. Stealing from a girl scout is mean. But stealing from a girl scout and then feeling aggrieved to have gotten caught is golden telly. I can’t help but think the first thief is hamming it up for the cameras and her interviewer:
Spotter: Ace
Posted: 6th, June 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Turpy the tap dancing mouse is her to entertain (video)
IF a dog can win Britain’s Got Talent, why not a dead mouse on piece of string? Presenting Turpy the tap dancing, body-popping, electric-boogalooing, fox-trotting, head-banging, Pinocchio-impersonating, Benny Hill running mouse. This is how it was before the TV and internet, kids. You made your own entertainment. I remember once an earwig called Flash Masterson who would (continues for days)…
Posted: 5th, June 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Mosque security guard gropes buttocks (video)
AT the local mosque in Iraq, the search technique for the perfect supplicant buttock continues:
Posted: 5th, June 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The interesting bin man of Camden Town – video
TO Camden Town, North London, where a local refuse collector is weaving about a little. Do you need a licence to operate a trolley? (PS – refreshing to hear the local jeunesse d’oree calling the worker a “bin man”.)
Posted: 31st, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Teaching Cambodian children to says Supercalifragilisticexpialdocious – video
MATHIEU Cuvelier and Lucy Crook made a viral video about their teaching mission to Cambodia. There, they taught the youth to say ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialdocious’.
Bvut do you spell it?
Yeah ‘I.T.’ Back to school for you:
Posted: 31st, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Budgie killer shoots hamster (video)
HAMSTER gets shot by man who also shot budgie:
Posted: 29th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Baftas 212 – all the winners and red carpet photos
TO the Baftas 2012. And do please give a Bafta in 2013 to whoever wrote the links the presenters waded through. As for the red-carpet (actually a Union flag; isn’t walking on the thing what our enemies do?), we’ve got the photos. We’ve also got photos of all the winners:
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Posted: 27th, May 2012 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
The sharks go fishing in Australia
WHO’D be a big fish? In this vide an intrepid Aussie fisherman catches the head of a giant fish. The sharks got the rest. Well, so he says:
Posted: 25th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Egyptian TV channel Marya hires only veiled women and celebrity pariahs
MARYA (pronounced Marry yer) is an exclusively female Egyptian satellite TV channel featuring only women veiled in the niqaab. As befitting such a bastion of sisterhood, Marya is owned by Salafi Sheikh Abu Islam Ahmad Abd Allah, a man.The channel’s general manager Sheikha Safaa explains:
“The work in operations of the channel will be handled by the sisters in charge of management, especially as women are the best one to talk about their needs. The channel “aims at lifting injustice” of the veiled.
Sheikh Abu Islam Ahmed Mohammed Abdullah has other aims, seeing his channel as a way of “protecting women from temptations by finding them suitable work opportunities”. He adds:
“We plan on hiring all our staff of veiled women and finish that within three months. We have already hired women, filming professionals from other television channels to train our all women team on production, filming, and other skills. But for the technical skills we have to rely on men because we were not able to find skilled women in this field yet”.
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Posted: 24th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Romanian TV reporter caught faking sandstorm (video)
It’s blowing something fierce on Romania’s Black Sea coast. A sandstorm has been whipping up by the high winds. The reporter for Realitatea TV tells his viewers:
“The wind blows with incredible power, there are moments when it is impossible to stand up here. The wind blows the sand at over 60 km per hour. The wind blew away the beach umbrellas and the tourists had to leave in a hurry.”
Get the hell out of there, man. Save yourself. And take the assistant kicking the sand up to illustrate your story with you, too..
Posted: 23rd, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Voice is cursed by Whitney Houston’s melisma
IT was of course your ever-reliable Madame Arcati who first foresaw the tragi-comedy that BBC1’s The Voice is turning into – a vast £22 million wail of a show whose patron saint of vocal gymnastics is the late Whitney Houston. While most of you out there were swaying your arms to some pro-am screamed-out golden oldie, like tone-deaf seaweed in an old Jacques Cousteau TV doc, I was filing nails on two fingers.
Posted: 18th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Err, it’s Dara O Briain
YOUTUBER vexred has noticed that BBC panelist Dara O Briain says “errrrr”. His errs often follow a witty comment, acting like a rat-a-tat-tat on the drums. He has compiled all of Dara ‘Briain errs from a single broadcast of Room 101. No err is repeated:
Posted: 18th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Some kid tries to mess with a marching band – never do this (video)
DO not mess with a marching band. The little kid tries…
Posted: 17th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
When Jacob met Tyler – uplifting video of the day
SOMETIMES the cynicism and pain dies and all that’s left is the music. In this video Jacob – he’s blind and autistic – meets Tyler, who’s playing music in Lawrence, Kansas on May 13, 2012.
Can you get Tyler on the NHS?
Spotter: Karen
Posted: 17th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
