TV & Radio Category
Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
Drugged Man Drives Car Onto Dentist’s Chair
IN this video the man in the dentist’s chair is anaesthetised and driving a car. This is just one more thing you have to fear at the dentists…
Posted: 26th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Frankie Boyle Gives Racists A Good Laugh: But Not Emily Parr
FOR those of you who missed the racist tones of Frankie Boyle’s joke about Katie Price’s black son Harvey Price trying to rape her, preferring to focus on the fact that Jordan’s son is disabled, the BBC-approved Jerry Sadowitz lite will now use the words nigger and Paki in his act.
A Channel 4 spokesman will now explain the joke. Saying nigger and Paki does not represent a return to the 1970s when comics would get laughs with such words because Boyle is deeply clever. Not once did he say, “Oh, deary-deary-me” and wobble his head. He never stuck out his lips for the black joke nor used the phrases “spade” or “Brixton briefcase”. Know that:
“This cutting edge comedy is clearly intended to ridicule and satirise the use of these words – Frankie Boyle was not endorsing them.”
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Posted: 24th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Savoy: Panto Professor Stephen Fry Ruins The Place
ITV1’s curious 2-part doc on the re-opened Savoy introduced us to its current owner Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. In the show he was described as the fourth richest man in the world whereas Forbes rates him only at 19th with a net fortune (as of March this year) of nearly US$20 billion. Perhaps he slipped in the chart because the Savoy’s total refurbishment went £120m over budget during its mad near-three year closure.
The prince, a member of the Saudi royal family, arrived with a huge entourage. In a coach. We learned from his Savoy-assigned butler in the royal suite (price: £10k a night) that he had demanded white slippers in place of the black (or vice versa), liked Melba toast (or was that someone else?) and didn’t wish to be disturbed before his rather late rising at 2pm every day. If he wished to eat out, every table of the establishment was booked in his name. He might however change his mind at the last minute and go elsewhere. He likes curry.
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Posted: 22nd, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Fraudulent Apprentice Star Hides Behind Vince Cable
ODD that Christopher Farrell, latterly of BBC TV’s The Apprentice, should choose to cover his face with a copy of the Times, on which Has Bean Vince Cable appears.
Is there a message? Or is Farrell of the impression that the millions who saw him on the telly don’t know what he looks like?
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Posted: 22nd, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Bay City Rollers And Ann Margaret’s Saturday Night Special: The Greatest Audience Video
YOU know the feeling. With a heavy heart, you slump down in front of the television for an evening watching The X-Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, Strictly Come Dancing, or one of a million other mind-numbing repackages of old light entertainment formulas. After a few minutes, you find yourself thinking:
“I’m sure things weren’t this bad when I was a child, and I was forced to watch the Saturday night family schedule because there was nothing else to do.”
Well, you know what? You are right.
Oh, the programmes were awful, of course. And the performers weren’t always the greatest. But the audiences… now they were something special.
Cardiff, Blackpool, Cannock, Dundee, Felixstowe – the coaches came from all four corners of the kingdom and decanted their cargo of up-for-it pensioners into theatres and studios from which the nation’s two television companies would broadcast to captive audiences of 15 million plus.
And when I say “up for it” I mean up for it.
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Posted: 22nd, December 2010 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
EastEnders Cast Come Out In Support Of Julian Assange: Wikileaks TV
JULIAN Assange is a hero of EastEnders, that slice of life BBC soap opera. A reader writes that it was great to see Jane Beale, Ian Beale’s long-suffering wife, lending her support to the Wikileaks’s founder’s cause in the face of an alleged rape. (If you have been affected by the issues raised in this story, then please seek urgent medial help from your primary carer…)
Julian Assange: the HIV; the rape allegations; the crap sex; his dating profile; the Asian teen stalkers; his love emails; the lying cables; the lying cables; the dead bodies; the angst; the pile; and the celebs.
Posted: 20th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
The Nativity In The Age Of Twitter, Google And Wikipedia
THE story of the nativity, as told by Twitter, Google and Wikipedia…
Posted: 19th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Omnibus De México Driver Is A Multi-Tasking Master
THE driver from Omnibus De México is a multi-tasking master. He’s making notes on a clipboard. He’s holding a steering wheel. He’s sorting out his music collection. He’s massaging his wife’s back with his toes. He’s composing an aria in his mind. He’s a professional…
Spotter: Buzzfeed
Posted: 18th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Strictly Come Dancing 2010 Final Photos: Matt Bake (Star Of MattBaker.co.uk) To Win
IT’S the final of Strictly Come Dancing 2010. The pro-celebrity dance slam has come down to Artem Chigvintsev with dancing partner Kara Tointon, Pamela Stephenson with James Jordan, Matt Baker with Aliona Vilani.
Matt Baker (star of MattBaker.co.uk), is the celebrity in his duo, as are Pamela Stephenson (Mrs Billy Connolly) and Kara Tointon (chirpy panto star who found her inner depression in EastEnders). The final show will feature all the winners, including Ann Widdecombe, the tango mop, who will be starring with Vince Cable at the bottom of large barrel in the not so distant future…
Posted: 18th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Can Four Dwarfs Beat A Camel In A Race? Let’s Find Out
CAN a relay team of four dwarfs defeat a camel around a running track? Finally, we can answer the question:
Posted: 18th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Ohio State University Marches Against Student Fees: Video
THE student protests against University fees are in danger of looking routine. The shocks of that first outing in Millbank have subsided. A new tack is required. Poking Camilla was an escalation in the violence, and answered the question: would anyone touch her with a barge pole? But in the students need to organise. And the scholars of Ohio State University are here to show the way ahead. This how to get on the news:
Posted: 18th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
George Ewart Evans’ Borstal Recording Are Life In The 1970s
WAS Borstal all bad? George Ewart Evans collection- Archival Sound Recordings are online. The historian recorded his conversations with agricultural people in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
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Posted: 17th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Apprentice: Cracking Chris Bates Or Icy Stella English?
THE Apprentice is down to its final two. Chris Bates and Stella English are the finalists vying to work for Lord Alan Sugar. You might switch off at the thought to watching charisma-free Chris, who talks like his voice is breaking at a charity bingo night, and ice-cold Stella, the Linda Ronson / Kelvin McKenzie crossbreed.
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Posted: 17th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Silvina Escudero Photos: Strictly Come Dancing Argentina Has A Strip Dance
SILVINA ESCUDERO is the new champion of Argentina’s copycat version of the Dancing with the Stars and Strictly Come Dancing. It’s called Bailando por un Sueño (trans: Dancing for a dream; aka Dancing for a Wet Dream).
It’s actually a segment on TV’s Showmatch, in which the non-celebrity dreamer is paired up with an Argentine celebrity. Dancers are invited to perform the Tango, Chacarera, Salsa, Pole-Dance and, in this video, the strip-dance.
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Posted: 16th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Rachel Riley’s Large Baps Get An Airing On Countdown
IS Countdown trying to woo a more adult audience, say, Category C prisoners, or adolescent teenage boys, for whom a dictionary is a means to looks up filthy words and work out how to weave them into a playground incident or a search of Google images? The Countdown conundrum is “LARGEBAPS”. The solution is… “GRASPABLE.” Fnar…
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Posted: 15th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
A Fire At the BBC And David Icke Returns
THERE is a fire at the BBC. It’s 1987 and we go live to the listings, with David Icke and the late film…
Posted: 15th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
My Dad Can Speak Venusian
CAN you speak Venusian? He can…
Posted: 14th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The X Factor 2010 Was A Fix: Full Voting Results By Week
THE X Factor scooped 15,448,019 votes. And you wasted your money. The thing was rigged. Yep, who knew that a TV show could be scripted and manipulated to come up with the most entertaining outcome? Matt Cardle came top every week but one. Mary Byrne won the first week’s vote – but she was booted off the show in the semi-finals, despite having gained more votes than Cher Lloyd.
Usually, the finalists are decided by the public vote. But this season the judges thought a sing-off was best. So, Cher went through. Although no-one thought to tell panicky presenter Dermot O’Leary who said that the public vote would be the sole barometer of success and failure.
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Posted: 14th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
Matt Cardle Knew Susan Boyle’s Cousin: X Factor Local News
THE important thing about Matt Cardle, X Factor champion for 2010, is that he must be claimed as local to as many places as possible. This will enable local media to make him one of their own. Matt is not just an Essex lad. He is an Irishman. The Irish Independent quotes him thus:
“They left for England during the potato famine. We were originally ‘McArdles’ but we lost the ‘Mc’ over the years.”
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Posted: 13th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Teddy The Cocker Spaniel Will Now Cross His Eyes
Teddy the Cocker spaniel crosses his eyes – for you:
Posted: 12th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor: Cher Lloyd Is A Children’s TV Star And Matt Cardle’s Dead Mum Lobbies For Votes
CHER Lloyd is no longer on the X Factor. Dot Cotton’s Team America action figure was once a shoo-in for the title. The show would progress and Cheryl Cole, that “nation’s sweetheart”, would carry her abbreviated mini me to victory on a wave of mojo, hair extension, a sweet right hook and weepy Girl Power.
Then on the final Cher sang a children’s song and looked like a stroppy youth worker with a dream at a Coventry kidz ‘n’ dadz social club. The X Factor is a TV show – if the wannabes want to get on after it’s over they need to continue their career on the magic box. Cher would make a decent character on Balamory or a big sister for Horrid Henry.
Matt Cardle, Rebecca Ferguson and One Direction march on. And Cher strops off. And she sounds horrible, threatening, even:
“You haven’t seen the last of me, definitely not. I’m going to use this as my platform and I’m going to make sure I’m the biggest goddamn thing to ever come out of The X Factor.”
What bigger than Simon Cowell’s ego. The planet is no big enough, Cher.
“That’s not being cocky, it’s just being very, very, very committed to what I do.”
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Posted: 12th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor 2010 Final Playlist: One Direction Do Elton John
X FACTOR 2010 final: the playlist is in full. Each singer gets two songs:
Song 1
Matt Cardle: Here With Me (Dido)
Rebecca Ferguson: Just like a star (Corinne Bailey Rae)
One Direction: Your Song (Elton John)
Cher Lloyd: Boom, boom, shake the room/I whip my hair
Duets:
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Posted: 11th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
X Factor 2012 Final Live Blog: One Direction To Win…
X FACTOR LIVE BLOG: 2010 Final.
Matt Cardle wins. As we, er, told you he would.
Day 2: 20:30 – One Direction are out. Now they can ditch the three that can’t sing.
20:58: Cher Lloyd slings her ring-a-ding-ding. If she wants to be famous she must now carve out a TV career.
Odd thing is that she was the most memorable singer on the night. Although Rihanna’s Nation Of Islam dry hump was a pretty close second.
14:39: Playlist leaked:
One Direction go for ballads and love. They are going to win.
14: 27: Chloe Mafia arrives. She is with Princess Beatrice’s missing sister.
X Factor 2011 Final Photos: Chloe Mafia And Christina Aguilera Separated At Birth
X Factor 2011 Final Photos: Chloe Mafia And Christina Aguilera Separated At Bi
AFTER months of Gamugate, rigged votes, fixes, Shirleena Johnson, Wagner, and cynical manipulation, the X Factor reaches its final. One Direction (aka one Haircut – it’s Justin Bieber’s), Rebecca Ferguson (slightly less animated than a stick of rock), Cher Lloyd (Junior Dot Cotton) and Matt Cardle (styled by Joe Cocker; auto-tuned by Kenwood) are the final four acts looking to be the next Shayne Ward, Steve Brookstein, Leon Jackson or Leona Lewis.
After the telly is over, the chances of music success are not guaranteed. Because – get his – the X Factor is not a singing contest. It is a TV show. Witness Stacey Solomon’s victory on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!. She is good on the telly, the medium that spawned her.
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Posted: 11th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
X Factor Final Photos: Why We Hate The X Factor
X FACTOR final: In readiness for the X Factor final to end all finals – ever! – Cheryl Cole held Cher Lloyd’s hand at London’s The Connaught Hotel. Cheryl’s holding of hands is now a mainstay of the show. It’s one of those annoying habits that makes the X Factor the programme you hate to watch. Other pets hates are:
Louis Walsh shouting over the crowd to tell the act that they are “INCREDIBLE”.
Cheryl Cole announcing her acts for the corrupt sing-off in a flat-voice with unblinking eyes. This is meant to show her as deep and knowing. She looks like she’s holding in a fart. She makes us wonder if this is the kind of come-to-bed voice she used on Ashley. If it is, it might explain much.
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Posted: 10th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (3)
How To Clear Your Roof Of Snow In Fife
IN Fife, Naj Mohammed complains that ice and snow on his roof are causing the pipes to sag and buckle. Stevie Barron is here to help. He will clear the roof. He has skills. Says Mr Mohammaed:
“This was us in the process of damage limitation.”
Posted: 10th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
