TV & Radio Category
Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
Jorge Wants To Be Hardcore But His Mum…
LIKE you, we enjoy those teaser lines that explain a TV show or news segment in ten words or less. One day someone will make a blog about them.
Here’s Jorge in Chilean TV – He wants to be hardcore but his mum won’t let him…
Posted: 24th, July 2008 | In: Photojournalism, TV & Radio | Comments (3)
Car Crash TV With Jeremy Kyle And Death
“JEREMY KYLE CHEATS DEATH,” screams the Mirror’s front-page headline.
You can just see Kyle standing before Death and yelling at him to “Be a man! Do the job properly – NO more cheating – NO more lies – NO stuff ups. If you ARE Death then start behaving like Death!
“Let’s get God on the show, everybody.”
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Posted: 23rd, July 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (25)
Statler And Waldorf On The Internet For Muppets
MUPPETS find a new home on the web:
Posted: 22nd, July 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Big Brother 9: Lisa Appleton Knows What Would Jesus Do
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
The Big Brother house has been divided into heaven and hell. Which is which. Who can tell?
Why, Lisa Appleton can. She wonders what Jesus would do?
Lisa:
“I’m gonna make a sacrifice and stay in Hell another week so Rebecca can go over ther, like Jesus would do. because Jesus would do that.”
But only after he’d flashed his t*ts, told Rex to f*** off and sorted out the meagre ration of fish fingers and bread rolls…
Posted: 22nd, July 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Windpower Pollution
ON windpower, says the BBC:
Wind power enables electricity to be produced in an environmentally friendly way – the turbines don’t produce chemical or radioactive emissions.
Just clouds of thick black vapour…
Posted: 21st, July 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (3)
Anorak’s Sunday Supplement, Without Gene Robinson
IT’S Sunday, and as part of Anorak’s commitment to a religious output, we bring you this image of wonder, lest we forget.
Can’t we all just get along?
Although not that well, obviously. We’re not gay.
Amen…
Posted: 20th, July 2008 | In: Photojournalism, TV & Radio | Comments (11)
Media Whores, With Lizz Winstead, Tracie Egan And Moe Tkacik
LIZZ Winstead is in coversation Tracie Egan, and Moe Tkacik, writers from Jezebel.com on her show Thinking and Drinking
Tracie: “I once paid someone to rape me once.”
Tracie: “Well, I didn’t pay for it, I had a magazine pay for it
Tracie: “I moved here when I was 18 and you think you would encounter more rapists in a big city like this, but, I don’t know, I just haven’t.”…
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Posted: 18th, July 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (5)
Prince Charles Follows In Mandela’s Footsteps
NO sooner as Nelson Mandela shuffled off the Robben Island stage at Hyde Park then we get another celebrity birthday do.
The Express lets us know that a “host of showbiz names” are lining up to appear at Prince Charles’s 60th birthday bash.
What starzzzz is unsaid but don’t rule out a Spice Girl representing the world’s statesmen, the left overs of Queen and Sir Trevor McDonald. With a little foresight, Charles could have had a joint party with Nelson.
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Posted: 17th, July 2008 | In: Royal Family, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (5)
Big Brother 9: Mikey Sees
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
Is Big Brother’s Mikey Hughes blind?
Says Mikey in the Diary Room as he nominates Belinda:
“It’s all over her face she wants to win it”
Posted: 16th, July 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (3)
Big Brother’s Fight To The Death
PSSST! Wanna hear “Another great STAR Exclusive”?
Or would you rather not know: “BIG BROTHER RIOTTERS TRASH TELLY HOUSE”?
For those of you who do want to know, the Star brings front-page news that Big Brother housemates are “at war”. And the weapons of choice are food, toothpaste and rubber gloves filled with water and smeared with sun cream, possibly made in China and honed in Iran.
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Posted: 16th, July 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Madeleine McCann: Robert Murat, Newspapers Escape And Libel
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
ROBERT Murat has won libel actions against Sky, The Daily Express, The Sunday Express, The Daily Star, The Daily Mail, The Evening Standard, The Metro, The Daily Mirror, The News of the World, The Sun and The Scotsman.
His case against the media was due to be heard tomorrow, but he has reached a settlement out of court.
You can read a round-up of the matter here, an search for “Robert Murat” on Anorak, which has been highlighting the media campaign againt the expat for over a year.
This settlement saves the media fighting a battle they had no chance of winning and legal fees. The cost is about £50,000-a-head, which is something of a bargain.
And how have these papers responded to the news? With an apology?
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Posted: 16th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (248)
Big Brother 9: Sara Folino And Maysoon Shaladi’s Mission Position
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
“BIG BRUV LESBIAN LOVE FIX.”
It’s the Star’s front-page news.
Sara Folino and Maysoon Shaladi were last night at the centre of secret lesbian fix claims.
Housemates “reckon the two shapely gals are struggling to keep their lust under control and are only doing so as part of a BB game”.
Who knew that after years of trailing live action shagging on Big Brother, shock value is to be had in NO live action shagging?
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Posted: 14th, July 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Big Brother: Bex Sex Hex
“BIG BROTHER SEX FIX FOR BEX,” scream the words on the Star’s cover page.
“She offers romp to beat axe.” Eat yer heart out, Anne Boleyn.
Bex is Rebecca Shiner, the dough-faced future BT call centre supervisor trying desperately to be liked and failing.
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Posted: 11th, July 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (6)
Zoe Williams: TV Last Taboos
GUARDIAN writer Zoe Williams has been on the BBC’s Daily Politics show.
She has been bring ner nails throughtout.
Is this a TV taboo broken?
Posted: 11th, July 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Vicar Begs Like A Vagrant
WE join the Reverend Derek Rigby dressed in a wig and some torn clothes, surrounded with lager cans and syringes. He has not shaved for three days and sports drawn-on tattoos.
Just another Sunday morning at the General Synod? Not this time.
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Posted: 10th, July 2008 | In: Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comments (4)
Catching Out With Big Brother’s Chanelle Hayes
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
BY now you’ll be wondering what ever happened to Chanelle Hayes, the whiney Big Brother agonist.
The Daily Star has tracked her down and is giving her away to readers in the form of a “naked Chanelle poster” over the centre pages.
Some scoop to find a shot of Chanelle in the nude and readers can expect a damage limitation exercise, as Chanelle tells us that all she left her trademark knickers and peek-a-boo bra back at the house…
Posted: 10th, July 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment
Big Brother Sex Dolls
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
“BIG B RUV MAY IS BIG FAKE,” screams the Star’s front-page headline.
Calling someone a fake is just about the most popular insult on Big Brother, and good that the Star has adopted the language of the house as its own.
The paper says that Maysoon Shaladi has been “branded the show’s biggest ever FAKER”.
Anorak looks at Maysson, the glossy hair, the smooth latte-toned skin, the generous lips and the vapid sparking eyes and realises at once that she is an inflatable doll, Big Brother’s first foray into the adult sex market.
For £19.99 (plus £1.99 foot pump), readers can constructs a life-like Maysoon in their bath tub, lounge seating area and designated smoking zone.
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Posted: 9th, July 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment
CNN Muppet Swoop
CNN arrest news…
Posted: 9th, July 2008 | In: Photojournalism, TV & Radio | Comment
Man Fakes Heart Attack In Court
SPANK him and see if he responds:
Posted: 8th, July 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (4)
Big Brother 9: Bosses Back Sara Folino
“BIG BRO LESBIAN ROMPS SHOCK,” screams the Star’s front-page headline.
It turns out that there has not been ONE lesbian romp in Big Brother 9.
But Australian agonist Sara Folino “wants a lesbian romp with BB babes Lisa and Kat”.
And Sara is not the 0only one who wants it. Says the Star: “Bosses are thrilled the Oz babe is sexing up the show which has been dogged by fights and bitching.”
Bosses like Richard Branson, Sir Alan Sugar and our very own Old Mr Anorak who is thinking of cancelling his subscription to Star owner Richard Desmond’s Fantasy Channel and tuning into BB9…
Posted: 8th, July 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment
Russia Killed Alexander Litvinenko, Mark Urban
IT was not the hoodie in the kebab shop that did for Litvinenko:
The murder of Alexander Litvinenko was carried out with the backing of the Russian state, according to Whitehall sources. A senior British security official has told Newsnight “we very strongly believe the Litvinenko case to have had some state involvement; there are very strong indications that it was a state action”.
Furthermore officers at MI5 believe they thwarted an attempt last June to kill Boris Berezovsky, the London based critic of then president Vladimir Putin.
So says a “Mr A”. A Mr A living in London? A Russian Mr A living in London? Anyone..?
Posted: 7th, July 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
How To Convert Atheists And Fight Evolution
RICHARD Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens cannot be converted by conventional means:
Dr Dinho – a reader writes:
Help, my niece is being taught evolution!
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Posted: 7th, July 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (8)
Brian Appleyard’s Moral Maze
BRIAN Appleyard on culture and Ellis Cashmore on the BBC radio:
I began fully-listening when Ellis Cashmore appeared as a ‘witness’. Cashmore is ‘professor’ of Culture, Media and Sport, surely the Andrex of academic disciplines. You can listen to him on the website – it’s the programme about celebrity – he appears at about twenty minutes. You may need a new laptop as these machines don’t take kindly to being flung across the room. The gist of what Cashmore said was contained in his line ‘Cultures are no better or worse than each other’. Right then, Prof, here’s my time machine and, woosh, here we are in Tiananmen Square during Mao’s Cultural – geddit? – Revolution. You, being an intellectual, are about to be stamped to death for the entertainment of the peasants. Luckily, I am on hand to, first, console you with the thought that all cultures are equal and, secondly, to operate the time machine and whisk you off to Germany in the thirties. I, having a Jewish mother, am being dragged off by Brown Shirts, but, luckily, you are on hand to console me with the thought that all cultures are equal. Sadly, you cannot operate the time machine…. Who are these people? What are they for?
Who gives a professorship in culture?
Posted: 7th, July 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
