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Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
Kimmo Wilska Sacked For Drinking Beer Live On Air: BBC News To Use Props
KIMMO Wilska is the English-language news anchor in Finland who thought it a good idea to illustrate an item about Finland’s alcohol licensing laws by drinking beer on air.
He’s been sacked. But we think that news readers helping viewers better understand what the story is and means with motions, props and acting is useful.
The BBC’s Louise Minchin and Bill Turnbull are already halfway there. Whenever it’s a sad story, they both look sad. When its a story they don’t approve of, they tilt their heads, purse their lips and give the big sideways eye.
The next logical step to help thick telly watchers make sense of it all must be props.
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Posted: 14th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (5)
X Factor: Konnie Huq Relieved She And Charlie Brooker Never Pre-Booked The Babies
X FACTOR’S Konnie Huq, the Kermit the Frog look alike who presents the Xtra Factor tells Company magazine that she never thought she’d get the job and had been planning to get impregnated by husband Charlie Brooker and give birth instead.
“I was a bit annoyed really because I was getting ready to settle down and have babies.
“Charlie and I both had a gap in work last summer so we’d booked flights to Vegas to get married.”
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Posted: 14th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor 2010: Cher Lloyd’s Fragile Watch With Robbie Williams
FRAGILE Watch With Cher Lloyd: Anorak’s look at the word “fragile” used in context of feisty X Factor singer Cher Lloyd, Dot Cotton’s Team America puppet made life:
Robbie Williams joins the chorus in X magazine:
“I wasn’t as fragile as she is when I was 16…”
More fragile news of fragile Cher to follow…
READ: How The X Factor And Sony BMG Fixed It For Katie Waissel, aka Katie Vogel
The X Factor 2010: Where You’ve Seen The Fix Factor Finalists Before
X Factor 2010: After Katie Waissell Treyc Cohen Is Another Fix?
X Factor 2010: Wagner Fiuza Carrilho Is The Cheryl Cole Antidote We Crave
Cher Lloyd And Chery Cole Are ‘Fragile’: Brittle, Hard And Thin
Posted: 13th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Man Interrupts Dutch TV Talk Show To Ask Directions To Toilet
IN this instructional video you will learn how to ask for the toilet in Dutch. You will seek directions to the loo from group of men talking on a TV show:
Posted: 13th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Cher Lloyd And Chery Cole Are ‘Fragile’: Brittle, Hard And Thin
X FACTOR 2010: Cher Lloyd is fragile. We know this because the word fragile is used to describe her. Fragile is Cher’s tabloid eputhet. Like “rubber-faced funny man” Rowan Atkinson, “nation’s sweetheart” Cheryl Cole, “mad mullah” Omar Bakri and so on.
A source tells heat:
“She feels like she’s hanging by a thread. Their relationship is fragile and Cher has been struggling with this.”
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Posted: 12th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (3)
David Simon’s Pitch For The Wire And Treme Time
DAVID Simon wrote The Wire. Anorak has not watched enough of this show because it was broadcast late at night after hours and hours of utter bilge had turned the telly into thing to hate, deride and mock. We’re catching up.
Simon, a former police reporter, has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation grant ($500,000).
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Posted: 12th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Elephant Film Of The Day: The Side Saddle Dismount
IN this Elephant Film of The Day, a man tries to climb on the beast in a manner befitting the Queen herself..
Posted: 12th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor 2010: Nicolo Festa Is Admirably Bitter
X FACTOR 2010: Now that Nicolo Festa has gone to the celebrity Silo in Brussels, we want Wagner to win all the more. But while that Robert Downey Junior-Britney Spears hybrid rehearsed, Festa, well, festers.
He tells X Factor magazine:
“I felt humiliated and like I wanted to die. Every second I was mortified. I wasn’t sad, I just wanted to disappear. I don’t like to feel embarrassed!…
“I definitely want to go on vacation somewhere very foreign, have a surgeon change all the features on my face. I don’t want to be seen out. I’m mortified.”
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Posted: 12th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor 2010: Katie Waissel’s Magic Bracelet And A PR Hotline
X FACTOR 2010: Katie Waissel looks to Cheryl Cole in her 89 seconds of need. Backstage at the X Factor, Katie says: “Please don’t hate me.”
Another day and with it another chance to look at the Spin Factor. The Mirror looks on as Cheryl Cole “rushed to calm her protégé” (the one she hardly speaks to). Waissel is “borderline hysterical“.
How The X Factor And Sony BMG Fixed It For Katie Waissel, aka Katie Vogel
The tin lid is placed on Katie’s box in the from of a “huge diamanté crown with beads and costume jewellery”. She will wear this to sing Beatles hit Don’t Let Me Down.
Katie sees the crown and reacts:
“This is a joke. I don’t want to wear it. You can’t make me wear this s***. Stop making me do all this. Let me just sing, be me. I want it to be about my voice, not this s*** you’re making me wear. I look ridiculous.”
Such are the facts. No, readers, this is not some cynical PR plot to distance Katie from the stack of sun visors she wore on the first show and make her look warmer and more likeable. This is what really went down – word for word and overheard by someone who can recall the words and then tell the Mirror’s Clemie Moodie.
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Posted: 12th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
X Factor 2010: Mugbabe’s State Occasion For Gamu Nhengu
X Factor 2010: did you know that Robert Mugabe is happy that Gamu Nhengu is heading back to Zimbabwe? It’s a tabloid fact. And Mugabe is not happy because Gamu is to be shot dead by his goons. He’s happy because Richard Chibvongodze says he is. And the Sun echoes the words:
Richard Chibvongodze, of the Department of Internal Affairs, added: “The Politburo are rubbing their hands in glee.”
As the Sunday Express told us one day earlier:
“The Politburo are already rubbing their hands in glee. This will demonstrate to Zimbabweans that the British are heartless and will never do anything to assist citizens of this country. Nokutula Ngazana and her family were not asylum seekers. They left this country perfectly legally, so won’t be in trouble when they return. In fact, they will be feted as true heroes of Zimbabwe.”
Only, Zimbabwe does not have a department of Internal Affairs. It has a department of Home Affairs.
And we’ve called the Zimbabwe embassy in London and they can find no Richard Chibvongodze at the home Affairs department.
You don’t suppose he’s been made up, do you?
Posted: 11th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor 2010: The Cher Lloyd Sex Doll And Hating Katie Waissel
X FACTOR 20201 and the Mail goes with a front-page picture of open-mouthed women: Mary Bryne agape and so too is Cher Lloyd.
Pick your sex doll, readers. Mary has teeth and a likeability. Cher’s is fuller-lipped and requires a lot less puff to inflate.
But not every woman on the show is everyone is equally shaggable.
Take Katie Waissel, who is pictured on the Sun’s front page with hand over her mouth.
The Sun has decided that the woman whose actually given us an orgasm face on video is not worthy of readers’ lusty thoughts. The talk is of “fan fury as flop Katie reprieved”.
Lucy Connolly continues with our scoop that Katie had a record contract and knowledge of BMG executes and Sharon Osbourne, and says, “viewers were livid last night after judges including Cheryl Cole saved Katie Waissel from the boot.”
Someone call Katie a “goblin. Another calls her “horrendous”. As rage goes the “fans’ fury” isn’t all that furious. In fact, the impression you get is that the Sun dislikes Waissell for being nothing more than ambitious. And the tabloids hate a young woman with ambition.
Indeed, the Sun is not even consistent in its owen story. One commenter says Katei Waissel:
“I don’t get is – sorry.”
Nor all that harsh, is it. But another voice says Wagner is “rubbish”; another calls Storm Lee a “clown”; a third calls Nicolo Festa a “weirdo”; a fourth says Diva Fever are a “bad idea”. Is that fan fury?
On Sunday’s results show we saw FYC all but praying to be put through. Faces contorted in pleading, desperate hope they sweated and knotted hands. But they are men. They are not “fame hungry”, only Katie is.
It is her story. Cher, for instance, is “fragile”, even thought we have heard about her beating up a classmate at school.
But the Sun, as all tabloids, ultimately realises that when a woman wants to get on it’s all about sex, and only about sex. So, inside across two pages Katie is wide-mouthed and wider-eyed. Cher, Mary and Treyc Cohen are also agog, agape and a-gasping.
And the most shaggbale wins…
Posted: 11th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor 2010: Week One Live Blog Results (Wagner Lives, FYD Die And Waissel Threatens)
KATIE Waissel is through to the next round of the X Factor. In the bottom three, Katie saw off a likeable Nicolo and FYD , the most desperate act ever to appear on the telly, with a rendition of Dwon’t Leyyyyt Meeee Dowhhn.
Of course Katie was always going through. She’s the professional singer with the BMG connections and a decent slot towards the end of the Saturday night show.
Simon Cowell wonder why Katie did not sing that on the Saturday night show? Listen to the words , Simon. Don’t. Let. Me. Down! Is That a threat? Does she know something?
But the most important thing on the X Factor was not Katie’s survival. It was not toothsome Joe McElderry singing about his Happy Days in the Ambitions diner with Richie Cunningham.
The most important thing was that Wagner made it through.
Wagner can save the show and break up the PR-led onslaught on record sales and the Cheryl Cole bandwagon that encourages us to see all sorts of wonder and talent in the lip-syncing singer that just isn’t there?
And no other act plays the bongos. And so no other act has as much chance of failing and being spotted years from now reliving the glory days on the London Underground.
Save Wagner and make our future journeys to work interesting…
Posted: 10th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)
X Factor 2010: Wagner Fiuza Carrilho Is The Cheryl Cole Antidote We Crave
X FACTOR 2010: Can Wagner Fiuza Carrilho save the show and break up the PR-led onslaught on record sales and the Cheryl Cole bandwagon that encourages us to see all sorts of wonder and talent in the lip-syncing singer that just isn’t there?
Can Wagner save us from Cher Lloyd, the Dot Cotton Team America action figure who has split the nation – there are those who think she’s overrated, overhyped and not all that likeable and then there is Cheryl Cole. Who will win? And this is Cheryl who rejected Gamu and doesn’t like the likeable Nicolo.
Can Wagner save us from Katie Waissel, who appeared to have lost a fight with Zhandra Rhodes’ wardrobe and a croupier? She stood behind a keyboard she didn’t seem to be playing and sang We Are The Champions in the manner of one of the those Wembley Stadium warm up singers whom football fans hate.
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Posted: 10th, October 2010 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (6)
X Factor 2010: After Katie Waissell Treyc Cohen Is Another Fix?
X FACTOR 2010: Treyc Cohen – you’ve seen her before. The wildcard entry was on the X Factor last year. Simon Cowell sent her home. But this is the post-Gamu super supportive X Factor, and Simon Cowell is licking his eyeballs and doing his DJ Nicey impression saying how great all the singers are.
How manipulative is the show? Well, in 2009, Simon Cowell told Treyc she was “missing that star belief”.
She is kicked off. But in 2001, Treyc is back on the show because, as Simon tells her:
“Your body language is vulnerable and you don’t have any confidence. I am amazed that we overlooked you in this competition.”
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Posted: 10th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (3)
X Factor 2010: Gamu Nhengu Blames Show For Her Execution In Zimbabwe
X FACTOR 2010: Gamu Nhengu is all set to be deported to Zimbabwe. But Simon Cowell says he will he help and has his lawyers helping out. Says he:
“I really feel for their situation, and that’s outside of the show.”
Nothing is outside of the show. So much is the show the be all and end all of Gamu’s story that the Star comes up with a front-page headline that has Cher Lloyd saying:
“I’LL WIN NOW GAMU’S DEPORTED.”
Having thus presented Cher as a cold-hearted young woman happy that Gamu has gone from the show and the country (although she has yet to leave), the NoTW has Gamu saying:
“There’s a firing squad waiting for us there and they’re putting me in front of it.”
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Posted: 9th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor 2010: Mary Byrne Sings It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World (Video)
X FACTOR 2010: Mary Byrne overcame laryngitis to belt out a version of It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World. Dawn French’s mum could play the piano but she could not sign like this. She was good. But the hype was better.
Mary has won a TV reality show in Ireland. But Louis Walsh loves the plucky amateur line:
“OMG Mary, the Tesco lady from Dublin has become a diva. You waited 50 years for this, I so believe in you. You’ve got the X Factor.”
And it’s £3.60 for a pack of 10.
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Posted: 9th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor 2010: What Does A Mentor Do And Can Gamu Live Without One??
CHERYL Cole is mentor to Cher Lloyd, Katie Waissel and Rebecca Ferguson. Cole declined to be Gamu Nhengu’s mentor, casting her adrift without guidance nor hope offerred by a small weeping Geordie on your shoulder. Who will hug and sob for Gamu now?
But Cher is ok. She’s a got Cheryl. But what does Cheryl do?
“Messages geet passed down the line to us. She is busy.”
Katie ads:
“We don’t speak to her every day. She is sorting out stuff for us.”
A mentor never rests…
READ: How The X Factor And Sony BMG Fixed It For Katie Waissel, aka Katie Vogel
READ: The X Factor’s Big PR Stunt: Why Gamu Nhengu Is The New Wispa Bar
Posted: 9th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Dr Who Live: Wembley Arena Photos
DR Who Live in photos. Dr Who is now a stage show. It’s much cheaper to make than a TV show and the BBC can get some money in by flogging tickets and merchandise. If enough fans got to see the show the monies raised will go into the big pot and lead to a reduction in the licence fee. And then your dog will start talking and run a successful hedge fun and you will wake up beautiful and best mates with Daisy Lowe and Matt Smith…
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Posted: 8th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor 2010: Rehearsal Photos And Cher Lloyd’s Proper Good Smashing Video Blog
The X Factor 2010: Want to see Dot Cotton’s Team American Doll Cher Lloyd, Simon’ll Fix It Candidate Katie Waissel, TV veteran Mary Byrne, jobbing singer Storm Lee, Nicolo Festa, Aiden Grimshaw, Matt Cardle, (David) Belle Amie (Sophia Wardman, Esther Campbell (fourth left), Rebecca Creighton and Geneva Lane) and Simon Cowell arrive for X Factor rehearsals at Fountain Studios in Wembley, north London? Ok – here goes…
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Posted: 8th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor 2010: Cher Lloyd Attacked By Hypocritical Daily Mail
X FACTOR 2010: The Daily Mail has Cher Lloyd in its sights. Sure, Lloyd does herself no favours by calling herself she and the other 11 Disciples in the X Factor final the “chosen ones”, taking credit for a song that isn’t hers and pulling faces like Dot Cotton drawing on a ciggie, but the Mail attacks her for everything and anything.
As Cher heads to a cashpont machine, the Mail looks on. And this is the Mail that warned us about chip and pin crime:
Motorists were warned yesterday of a new bank card cloning scam in which fraudsters use spy cameras to record PIN details as they are keyed in by customers at petrol station counters.
Matthew Hickley told Mail readers:
Dynamic security system developed as cash card fraud spirals out of control.
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Posted: 8th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor 2010: Cher Lloyd Says Simon Cowell Is The Messiah?
X FACTOR 2010 contestant Cher Lloyd has her feet on the ground, readers. Here’s what she says about Gamu:
“Thank the Lord we are the chosen ones.”
The chosen ones? There are 12 tribes of Israel. Jesus has 12 Disciples. There are 12 singers in the final.
As Sinitta put it:
“I personally can’t see what the problem is. After all, Mary Magdalene was a prostitute and Jesus hung out with her. This is a true testament of the kind of character Simon really is. There’s something quite Christian about him.“
Simon Cowell dad was Jewish. Although his mum is not a virgin…
Posted: 8th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Paul Henry’s Dikshit TV ‘Racism’ Is Good For Ratings
SHEILA Dikshit, leading light of the Indian Commonwealth Games, is amusing New Zealand TV presenter Paul Henry. Dikshit is, undoubtedly, a name to conjure with. But Henry says the name is “so appropriate” because she is Indian.
This is the same Paul Henry who described Susan Boyle as “retarded”. Says he:
“The dip sh*t woman. God, what’s her name? Dick Sh*t. Is it Dick Sh*t … it looks like ‘Dick Sh*t’. It’s so appropriate, because she’s Indian, so she’d be dick-in-sh*t wouldn’t she, do you know what I mean? Walking along the street … it’s just so funny.”
But this is not why Henry has been suspended. He’s on gardening leave for asking the country’s Prime Minister, John Key, if New Zealand’s governor-general Sir Anand Satyanand, who was born in New Zealand to Indo-Fijian parents, was even a Kiwi:
“Is he even a New Zealander? Are you going to choose a New Zealander who looks and sounds like a New Zealander this time?”
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Posted: 8th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (3)
X Factor 2010: Gamu Get Politics Onto The Front Pages
GAMU Nhengu is kicked off the X Factor 2010. Foreign secretary William Hague says on the record:
“We mustn’t do things differently just because people are in the news.”
Scotland’s external affairs minister Fiona Hyslop, says:
“Gamu has demonstrated that she is a hugely talented singer and a great asset to Scotland and the country’s music scene.”
European vice chair of Zimbabwe’s Zapu Party, one Barbara Nyagomo, says:
“Here is a talented young girl with a chance to do something extraordinary. She could provide a very positive role model.”
And somewhere in a lair a reptilian Simon Cowell licks his eyeballs and smiles…
READ: How The X Factor And Sony BMG Fixed It For Katie Waissel, aka Katie Vogel
READ: The X Factor’s Big PR Stunt: Why Gamu Nhengu Is The New Wispa Bar
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Posted: 8th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor 2010: What Really Happened When Gypsy Cher Lloyd ‘Bullied’ Ophelia At School
X FACTOR 2010: Cher Lloyd is now a hate figure. The Sun says she’s a “VIOLENT BULLY”. Can this be our Cher, the young lovely who is a dead ringer for Dot Cotton Team America action figure? Surely not?!
Poor Cher burdened with a name that to all the world looks like an abbreviated form of Cheryl. But Andrew Parker claims Cher is a “merciless bully” in her own right.
Meet Ophelia Blakeway. Yep, that’s right… Ophelia. Cher, meet Ophelia. Ophalia, meet Cher. Everyone is named after a star of stage and screen in Malvern where the pair went to school. Just in the girls’ class alone there is a Dunaway, Romeo, Van Damme, Lord Olivier, Godot and plenty of Violet Elizabeth Botts.
(Although, apparently, short for Cheryl, but short for Chert, a fine-grained silica-rich microcrystalline, also-known-as ’Malvern Gold’.)
Says Ophelia (no nun herself):
“I want people to hear the truth about what Cher was like. Everyone is making her sound like an angel but she caused me a lot of pain.”
The voice right? That singing?
“I’ve had problems ever since. I’m still trying to get over depression. I had counselling, I cried, I was self-harming. It’s not nice because I have the scars.”
Can telling the tabloids everything she knows and sticking the knife into Cher help Ophelia feel better? Can this make the “verbal torture” go away?
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Posted: 8th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (12)
X Factor 2010: Gamu’s Susan Boyle Moment In Photos
X FACTOR 2010 in pictures: At the home of X Factor reject Gamu Nhengu in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, her lawyer says the family will fight-fight-fight “all the way” plans to deport them. Because it’s a visa worth fightin’ for.
Robert Mugabe, Emperor of Zimbawe, from where Gamu hails, says, “I cannot believe Gamu got the axe. You British Cheryls are so Medieval. I much prefer the machete…”
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Posted: 7th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
