TV & Radio Category
Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
Big Brother 9: Alex De Gale And The Daily Star
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
“BIG BRUV GANGSTA GIRL ALEX OUT TO GET JEN.”
“Evicted babe fears revenge attacks over bitch insults.”
If Big Bruv’s gansta girl Alex is upset at being called a bitch is she about to pop a cap in da ass of Da Daylee Starr’s Big Brother reporting team, innit tho?
The Star is the “official Big Brother newspaper” and its word on who is and who is not a bitch is final.
Posted: 7th, July 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Could The BBC Be Funded By Tax On Mobile And Web?
ONLINE Journalism wonders:
“Could the BBC be funded by a tax on web and mobile? In France President Sarkozy has just announced that, from next year:
“prime-time advertising on public television will be phased out, with the lost revenues to be replaced by taxes collected from internet, mobile phone and commercial broadcasting companies
“Internet and mobile operators will have to stump up a tax of 0.9 percent of sales—which could raise up to 380 million euros ($595 million), in support of the state-owned France Televisions, which controls the country’s four public channels. A further 80 million euros ($125 million) will come from taxes on commercial broadcasters.”
So would you pay for useage rather then right?
Posted: 2nd, July 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Fox Advertises For Facts Expert
FOX News wants a fact writer. No kidding:
Freelance Fact Writer
New York
Requirements/Responsibility:FOX News Channel, a fast-paced 24-hour television news operation in New York City, is seeking a Freelance Fact Writer for its information center.
Responsibilities include writing on-air facts and press conference quotes for daytime programming. Individuals must have strong writing skills, be able to handle multiple assignments and deadlines, and work well in a team atmosphere. Excellent communication and writing skills are also required.
A successful candidate will:
• Possess a strong interest in news and be well-informed about current events
• Be detail oriented and pay close attention to spelling, grammar, syntax
• Have ability to write in a concise, conversational and colorful style at an extremely fast pace
Must be willing to work on a flexible schedule including weekend shifts.
This is a high-pressure position where your work product gets national exposure on a daily basis.
A bachelor’s degree is required.
Source – Jossip
Posted: 2nd, July 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Hot Desking: Lee McQueen’s First Day With Alan Sugar
LEE McQueen has won The Apprentice and won the right to an office job in Brentwood. His first day report:
The Express:
Britain’s hottest say of the year so far led to a massive 20 per cent rise in ‘sickies’ yesterday
The Sun
Less pulls sickie on first day. Telly’s winning Apprentice Lee McQueen pulled a sickie yesterday – on his first day at work for new boss Sir Alan Sugar
You’re fried…
Posted: 2nd, July 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Big Brother: Dennis, Sylvia And Alex May Be Back
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
BIG Brother’s “most hated”, the show within the show, starring Alexandra De Gale (pow!), Sylvia Barrie (hisss!) and Dennis McHugh (spit!) is to reach an epic climax.
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Posted: 2nd, July 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment
Big Brother’s Jennifer Clark Is Most Hated Woman On Planet
BIG Brother news on the Star, the “official Big Brother paper” is that Big Brother’s Jennifer Clark is “more hated” than Big Brother’s Alexandra de Gale, who was only just more hated than Big Brother’s Sylvia Barrie.
Says BB expert Robert Mugabe: “They will pay for their crimes against humanity and we will…”
Goes on for 11 more weeks…
Posted: 1st, July 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (12)
BBC News Of The Day
KNOW that:
The problem of keeping track of thousands of near-identical African penguins may have been solved.
It was a problem…
Posted: 30th, June 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
The Death Of Big Brother
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
“BIG Brother This Is The End,” announces the Star on its cover.
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you, the death of Big Brother.
Says a BB source said: “This lot are out of control. There’s a real fear the show will not make it to the end of its run.” The fear felt among the Star’s hacks which make a living from the show is real.
But it can’t end like this, with Alex De Gale making idle threats and Dennis spitting. We demand real that threats are real and carried out to the letter.
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Posted: 30th, June 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (3)
Bad News: Andrew Pierce On The BBC Breakfast Show
ANDREW Pierce, of the Telegraph, is on BB Breakfast show reviewing the papers. Mr Pierce is a professional journalist and thus recognises the value of research:
On Robert Mugabe:
He’s been voted in for the umpteenth time
On a Russian spy in the Commons:
I won’t every try to pronounce his name
One Mountain Biking:
Pierce is outraged that the 2012 Olympic mountain biking contest will take place in Essex – a place where Pierce says there are no mountains. Only mountain biking does not occur on mountains but in mud, fields and dirt tracks, of which Essex has some…
Look out for Mr Andrew Pierce reviewing the news on the BBC all too soon.
Posted: 29th, June 2008 | In: Broadsheets, TV & Radio | Comments (3)
Spitting Mad With Big Brother’s Sylvia Barrie
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
SYLVIA: MY STORY,” says the Star on Sunday in its weekly Big Brother tribute.
“I stand by BB spitter Dennis.”
But not in front of him…
Posted: 29th, June 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment
Who Owns London’s Streets?
THERE is no law prohibiting the taking of pictures or video in a public place.
The PCO copper on what looks like Oxford Street, London, thinks otherwise. He’s wrong. The videographer makers his point and gets into a row that makes for better footage than pigeons overhead, or whatever it is he’s filming. A surly copper is always good telly. A surly part-time copper is better.
The best part is about four minutes 36 seconds in when Simon Taylor, a “keen phographer”, reminds us how the police like citizens to hand in any images they have to wrongdoing, even though the picture themselves may have been taken illegally.
Posted: 28th, June 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (4)
ITV Headcases Is Bad Satire, Says Nick Cohen
HEADCASES, the ITV show, is dire, says Nick Cohen:
Take their attitude to terrorism. Satirists might concentrate on the government’s threat to basic liberties, as many on the Right and Left have done. Alternatively, they might turn on a judiciary whose rulings allow “Londonistan” to survive.
What no one with satirical passion would think of doing is telling tit gags Benny Hill would have rejected as not funny enough. Yet Headcases had the animated Gordon Brown explaining to Jacqui Smith that she must show more cleavage as the terror threat increases. When an attack was imminent, she must sound the alarm by appearing topless before the Commons. Meanwhile Brown, a politician who has taxed and spent on a scale beyond the dreams of the Left of the 1990s, became in ITV’s hands a Victorian Scrooge who watches every penny from his counting house desk. You could almost hear them saying, “he is Scottish and a son of the Manse so —eureka! — we will show him as a skinflint!” Conservative readers will blame the broadcasters’ liberal bias for ITV’s failure to wound or even graze. I’m sure there’s truth in the charge but suspect that a deeper “bias against understanding” was at work.
In The New Elites, his study of modern culture, George Walden dissected Oxbridge-educated media grandees who make a career out of assuming the masses are ignorant. The makers of Headcases proved his point. Before the series began, they unblushingly told the Times that they wouldn’t pick on Jack Straw, Ed Balls, David Davis and Vince Cable because they didn’t think the viewers knew who they were. Even if they were right, and I’m not sure they are, Straw is Labour’s most devious survivor, while any decent satirist would have thanked the gods for giving him the bombastic, bullying Balls to play with. If their audience didn’t know who they were, they would make them know by the force of their anger and comic invention.
Posted: 28th, June 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Big Brother 9: Dennis McHugh Gobs Off Mohamed And The CPF
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
FAREWELL DENNIS McHugh, Big Brother’s resident gay who spat in the face of Mohamed, the house’s resident Muslim.
“BIG BROTHER SPITTING STORM,” screams the Mirror from its front page. “Police probe as another contestant is pulled out of house.”
“COPS CALLED IN OVER BB FIGHT,” echoes the Star on its cover, this one illustrated by a shot of the orangey-skinned un-gorgeous Scot Dennis with mouth akimbo.
Who cannot feel for the police forced to sit through hours of Big Brother CCTV, working out who said who to who to who to who to who?
It’s not as if these housemates are celebrities yet.
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Posted: 28th, June 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Big BRother 9: Why Don’t You Without The Sex
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
BIG Brother 9 viewers may recall the TV show Why Don’t You, which with no trace of irony encouraged viewers to go outside and “do something less boring instead”.
Those that listened and did as commanded went outside and now work in B&Q. Those that stayed indoors and loafed on the sofa are wearing a vest on national TV.
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Posted: 27th, June 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
BBC’s John Simpson On Manoeuvres With Robert Mugabe
JOHN Simpson, the BBC’s seemingly unsackable puffed-up war bore, says on the BBC website:
It has been done with great brutality, but Robert Mugabe has achieved an extraordinary turnaround here…
The moral is clear: never underestimate Robert Mugabe’s ferocious determination to stay in power
His opponent, Morgan Tsvangirai, has been completely outmanoeuvred.
Just look at those big scars on Mr Tsvangirai’s head to see how he’s been out manoeuvred…
Using sjamboks, army belts and gun butts, the soldiers attacked Tsvangirai until he passed out. One of the soldiers poured cold water all over Tsvangirai to resuscitate him. Tsvangirai regained consciousness again at around 1:30 a.m…. One vicious woman was left to work on him. She removed an army belt from her waist and used it to assault Tsvangirai until he passed out again. ”
— Police Officer, Mail and Guardian
Posted: 26th, June 2008 | In: Politicians, TV & Radio | Comments (13)
Weathering A Child Molestor: Chip Maxham Is Innocent
CHIP Maxham – C.H.I.L…
Spotter – PB
Posted: 26th, June 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Euro 2008: Quote Of The Night
EURO 2008: Austria calling. This is Austria calling…
Whatever happens, they’re going to make the most of it under a brooding Transylvanian sky
– Jake Humphrey, BBC Football presenter live with the Turkish fans in Austria
Posted: 25th, June 2008 | In: Back pages, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Big Brother 9: Luke Marsden Predicts The News
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
PSST! Wants to know the “sex secret of BB eye”?
The Star has stared long and hard at the show’s logo and can now revels that within it is the “hint to there being babes on the way”.
Says Luke Marsden: “There are three shards going into the eye. The red represents passion. So I think it means three new hot girls are coming in.”
That the thoughts of Luke now occupy the front page of a national newspaper is testament to the power of the show and to Luke’s foresight and nous.
A free £10 Big Brother FREE BET for all Anorak readers…
Other Luke Marsden predictions:
- Iain Duncan Smith will NOT be Prime Minister
- Dirt will not always got before the broom but will for a time follow the broom
- Someone in the Big Brother house will met footballer Anthea Turner at a celebrity dog picnic in Surrey
- The Star will continue to get is news from the telly
And many more…
Posted: 25th, June 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (4)
Celebrity Quote Of The Day: Marco Pierre White
CELEBRITY Quote of the Day: Hell’s Kitchen Host Marco Pierre White in the Sun:
Asked if he thinks battery chickens have a dreadful life, Leeds-born Marco shrugs.
‘They never knew anytting else. I grew up poor, on a council estate, but I didn’t know any different and I was happy.”
File under ‘bird brains”…
Posted: 24th, June 2008 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comments (9)
Big Brother 9: Mikey Hughes’s Blind Man Bluff
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
WHAT Anorak said in jest occupies the Star’s front page: “CAN BIG BROTHER MIKEY SEE?”
The Star’s lead news reporter is tuned to the Big Brother Diary Room and hears the following exchange:
Mario to Big Brother: “There was quite an interest between Jennifer and Stuart. Her eyes looked as though she was staring into a shop window full of candy.”
The 43-year-old did an impression of how she looked, saying: “She was like that.”
Mikey: “Yeah – I noticed that!”
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Posted: 24th, June 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (18)
Big Brother 9: Alexandra De Gale And The Max Clifford Brotherhood
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
OPPORTUNITY knocks for Alexandra de Gale, Big Brother villain elect who, as they Star says on its front page: “RUNS FOR HER LIFE.”
“BITCH Alex De-Gale is living in fear of losing her young daughter and attacks from Muslim fanatics.”
The Star is on first name terms with the woman now said to be trapped between social services (hairy lips) and Muslim fanatics (hairy chins).
She may also be wanted by environmental campaigners should she “flee the country for her own safety” – “One pal said: ‘Australia might be a good bet for her – at least until they start commercial flights to Mars. There isn’t anyone in the country who isn’t revolted by her.’”
No sooner has signs of life been found on Mars than it is being turned into a penal colony modelled on suburban Adelaide.
Of course Alex can be saved, and sources suggest she is also being hunted by the Jehovah’s Witness movement, Scientologists and the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.
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Posted: 23rd, June 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment
Big Brother 9: Alexandra De Gale Of Da Magick Lamp
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
MORE news on Alexandra de Gale, the former Big Brother housemate everyone at the Daily Star is talking about.
“POLICE TO QUIZ BB BITCH ALEX,” says the headline. “Big Brother bully Alex De-Gale faces a police probe over her gangster gun threats.”
Might this be Alex’s chance to embrace her new tabloid status as a celebrity bully?
If she can all the way, then hers is a career as the pantomime villain, a gangsta version of Aladdin at the Bridlington Apollo, in which Alex dresses as “da jeanie of da magic kebab” and doth spring forth and strafe the sad sacks with proper vexed pow pow? Innit tho.
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Posted: 20th, June 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (6)
Good Heavens It’s Bingo Night Live
BINGO Night Live is required viewing for the comatose TV crowd who can’t manage to flick over to Live Sock Vomiting On Bravo or Australian Ruby League.
It’s Bingo. It’s Night time (12:35am -1:40 am on ITV). And it’s Live. It’s Bingo! Night!! Live!!!
And here with clues on who is going to win is star gazing star gazer Russell Grant. News is that tonight’s winner will be a Taurus, Virgo or Gemini.
And the winner is… a Capricorn.
Open the curtains and look to the heavens. It’s bingo night live with astrology…
Posted: 20th, June 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (3)
Big Brother 9: Deep Throating Watergate
BIG Brother 9 Watch: Anorak’s looks at Big Brother news in the media…
FEELINGS of nostalgia wash over the Star as the paper’s hacks tune into Big Brother.
How they long for the 1970s.
If only this were the 1970s, Big Brother would be presented by a proper host like Dave Lee Travis with opinion from self-styled Leader of The Gang, Gary Glitter.
This hankering for the 70s is manifest in remembering Watergate. Alexandra de Gale has been evicted from the house and the Star lists her crimes thus:
CHIPGATE – She verbally attacked Bex, 21, Steph, 19, and Rachel, 24, in a row over burned chips and got an official warning.
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Posted: 19th, June 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (3)
Human Tetris On The BBC
SAYS the Telegraph:
“The latest BBC venture to evoke thunderous disapproval is its purchase of a Japanese show format, which compels contestants to contort themselves into odd shapes to fit through a giant advancing screen in a human version of the computer game Tetris.”
Broadsheet thunder, much like tabloid “fury”, is actually the sound made by a hack’s finger pressing f8 on their keyboard.
Posted: 19th, June 2008 | In: Broadsheets, TV & Radio | Comments (3)
