TV & Radio Category
Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
Chips, Cheese, Trams and Es – the Edinburgh song
ONE of our writers once wrote an article for Esquire on ‘Things You See From A London Bus’. One of them was a sleeping Glaswegian. Up in Edinburgh, the view is no less inspiring:
Posted: 17th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Is this the best Stag do prank ever?
IS this the best Stag do prank ever? Kokovtsov is blindfolded. He is taken to a ledge. He is told he is about bungee from a 50 feet high platform. Will he jump?
Posted: 17th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
TV Review: Sex Lies And Rinsing Guys, Channel 4
LAST Night’s TV: Rinsing Guys – Channel 4:
MANIPULATION for gain is not a modern invention. Snake Oil vendors flogged bottles of nothing to people with bold claims and got the fresh hell out of town before anyone could hand them their sorry arses. Advertising executives have manipulated people for years, but even they’d argue that they were providing some kind of tangible service to the world.
However, more brazen than a bagful of fighting parrots are the women featured in Sex Lies And Rinsing Guys – Channel 4’s latest attempt to goad their entire audience into apoplectic rage about a group of people who are in no way indicative of people at large.
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Posted: 16th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (4)
Impaled deer rescue caught on video – ‘No. The back legs, dummy’
HERE’S a video of a deer caught on a fence being rescued. “No, the back legs,” says the self-appointed foreman, who cares enough to direct the rescue and film the events. To you, she might seem shrill and annoying. But given the brain power exhibited by her colleagues, we can look to forgive her.
Run, Bambi. Run! Save yourself!
And you, bossy camera lady, calm down, dear…
Posted: 16th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Bloomberg TV reporter suffers skirt malfunction on air
BLOOMBERG TV gives the City boys a new bottom line to consider:
Posted: 15th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Louis Walsh attacks Will.I.Am over The Voice in world’s most weak-wristed feud
THE VOICE is irritating enough in its ‘We’re Yet Another Not-X-Factor Show!’ stance. Add Jessie J to the mix and its a wonder the whole of Britain hasn’t chucked itself into the sea. Either way, The Voice is here and the BBC have spent enough money on it to ensure that it’ll be around for at least the next three years, which is galling.
One man who isn’t a fan of the show is, unsurprisingly, The X Factor’s Louis Walsh. He’s decided to get his claws out and stop likening people to Lenny Henry for long enough to slag off Will.I.Am. Funny thing about these two is that they clearly have a lot in common, what with them both obviously being massive, raving [SENTENCE INCOMPLETE THANKS TO WATCHING LEGAL TEAMS].
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Posted: 15th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Schrödinger’s cat discovers Tupperware – video
IN this video Schrödinger’s cat discovers Tupperware…
Posted: 15th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
How to wake up a child on a car journey – a Nirvana video
HOW to wake up a child on car journey – a Nirvana video:
Posted: 14th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Wizard of Oz sequel filmed in Cockfosters
IN Cockfosters, North London, the locals are making a user-generated Wizard of Oz sequel:
Posted: 14th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Emmelyn Roettger needs a poo
EMMELYN Roettger is a Mensa star. Mum and dad gave her a test to sit and little three-year-old Emmelyn did really well. So well, in face, that the Washington DC native made it all the way to the telly, appearing on the Today show. And once there she performed what experts say was a “post-modern drama of her thought processes”. In short, Emmelyn needs to poo. And as soon as she asks to go to the toilet in Medieval Dutch, she can go:
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Posted: 14th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Air DJ Championships in Bournemouth’s Club Slinky
AIR guitar is for the olds. Air DJ is where the action is at.
Remember how grandpa used to annoy you by humming hymns and marching songs. Well, in years to come, he’ll still be annoying you, only with air guitar and 120bpm beeps:
To Bournemouth’s Slinky club for some musical miming:
Posted: 12th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
A wild Wallaby is at lage in Kent – video
A WALLABY is at large in Kent. (Benton!)
Posted: 11th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Wright Stuff mongs out
HAVING asked viewers “Amanda Knox: would ya?” the Wright Stuff’s producers put their thinking caps on and wondered if they could produce another survey to demean a soft target. The show on Channel Five (prop R. Desmond) featured nodding gossips chatting about Rupert Murdoch referring to David Cameron’s dead son as “retarded” at the Leveson inquiry. Ivan Cameron had cerebral palsy and epilepsy. He died in 2009 age 6.
A voiceover duly asked viewers:
“According to one survey, what’s the most offensive term to describe someone with learning difficulties? a. Mong b. Retard C. Spaz.”
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Posted: 11th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The shopping trolley carousel
TURN your shopping precinct into a big top funfair:
Spotter: Arbroath
Posted: 9th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
A horse that plays the guitar – video
CAN a horse play the guitar? YES! Sort of. Ish.
Posted: 6th, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Nice Peace, Nice Peace, Nice Peace, Nice Peace etc…
TAKE a balding, middle-aged man, put him in a school dress, invite the Japanese kids to dance and sing along and you have a protest record for the 21st century.
Give full throat to “Nice Peace, Nice Peace, Nice Peace, Nice Peace” etc…
Posted: 3rd, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
A goldfish attacks a cat
GOLDFISH attacks cat:
Posted: 2nd, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (3)
Li Li the dog is the world’s greatest bicycle lock – video
LI LI is the greatest novelty bike locks and bike stand in the world. She is safe and secure.Should you be involved in an accident, LiLi will jump onto your head and take the full impact while wagging to get the tain and tears from your eyes.
Spotter: Buzzfeed
Posted: 1st, May 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Rapist Beware: How to fend off a rapist – a video guide
RAPIST Beware! How to fend off a rapist the Lou Casamassa way. It’s 1990 and Lou has created the Rapist Beware! video. Cucumbers do not stand a chance!
Spotter: Dangerous Minds
Posted: 30th, April 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The human beat box is a chicken (Norman Collier lives)
NORMAN Collier’s daughter gets her big break in beat boxing:
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Posted: 30th, April 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Russian TV shows how car fell into a hole in the road
SO. How did the car fall into a huge pothole in Russia? Allow me to demonstrate…
Posted: 28th, April 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Mary Beard: My kind of Roman and AA Gill’s wrong kind of Blonde
MARY Beard tweets: “@Madame_Arcati going to print out your blog and keep it for when I might be feeling low!”
This blog, about Sunday Times TV critic AA Gill calling Mary Beard too ugly for the telly:
I LEARN that a middle-aged man, who resembles a homophobe’s idea of what a homosexual man looks like, has been very rude about Prof Mary Beard – the writer and presenter of BBC2’s Meet The Romans. If you’ve given up on TV and have an interest in Roman antiquity then I strongly advise you to re-new your TV licence just to watch this series.
Ingeniously, Beard has discovered the voices of the Ancient Roman dead – not of the emperors or their spin doctors – but of the ordinary people: the butchers, the ex-slaves, the woman who loved wine, the shitters and the bathers, the parents of the boy brained by a falling roof tile, and so on. She channels their words to us from their stone memorials chiselled in Latin which lay about under other historians’ noses for two millennia; awaiting Mary Beard’s exquisite TV seances. These dead people were like us live people, desperate to be heard and remembered. Just like the TV critic with his funny matchstick legs, his ageing male model face, his dyslexia and other sob story details (a mother complex, for instance, and a love life I cannot repeat here).
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Posted: 28th, April 2012 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (56)
Yatif is the singing fishmonger of Queens Market, London
YATIF will now sing his fish song, as heard at Queens Market, Upton Park, London E13. Time for Market Trader Idol, the TV talent show to find the best market trader in the UK. Soon to be followed by Burger Ban Idol, Fenced Goods Idol, Pub Singer Idol and Britain’s Best Window Cleaner Whistler. (Call me ITV, I have ideas….)
Posted: 27th, April 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Pet dogs prepare to devour dead turtle, maybe – video
ALL dog owners like to think the best of their pets, which must be how this video came to be labelled “Dog grieves over huge dead turtle – Breathtaking“. Before we see the wagging dog stood by a big dead turtle, a word about a pet I used to walk with: Eric the dog of indeterminate breed who would shag anything and eat everything, including anything dead on the road or beach. I can’t look at this video and help think that withut the syrupy hand-holding humans, the dogs would rip into Timmy Turtle and devour him. But where I see salivating dogs, the owner sees grieving and sorrow…
Posted: 27th, April 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
How to scare the crap out of your girlfriend – a video
IF your lover is scared of an intruder in the house – and apart from a pervert or The Queen isn’t? – viruz5 has an idea:
I got off of work early and snuck into my girlfriends apartment with a spare key. I waited for her to get off of work and I dressed up with a face mask and a trench coat on acting as if I was robbing the place. I was holding their 32″ TV, a duffle bag full of their stuff, and their laptop in my hand. When I heard the door open then close, I ran out to surprise them…. Poor girl was crying haha
So did she break up with him? “haha no she didnt,… She just gave me shit for a week. But then, with a little bit of my romance, she was back in my arms lol haha.”
Posted: 25th, April 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
