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Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
Celebrity Cull: Suzanne Shaw Wields Blade On Dancing On Ice
MORE news on the Dancing On Ice Celebrity Cull.
Followign this and this, the Mail screams: “Drama On Ice: The moment Suzanne Shaw’s skate sliced open her partner’s face.”
Blades…
Posted: 1st, March 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
A Leap Year Proposal Leading To The Seven Year Itch
TO the GMTV broadcasts. Amid the chintz and the Mr Sheen sparkling teeth, a viewer proposes to the lover she’s been dating for seven years. Seven years…. Seven years…. Seven years…
Posted: 29th, February 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Worst Nude Movie Scenes of All Time
Paper Magazine’s Top 10 Worst Nude Film Scenes of all-time:
1. Philip Seymour Hoffman – Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead
2. Patrick Dempsey – Some Girls
3. Terry Bradshaw – Failure To Launch
4. Donald Sutherland – Space Cowboys
5. Kathy Bates – At Play In The Fields Of The Lord
Posted: 29th, February 2008 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Food Fight: Americans And War
AN abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict:
I thought the UK were the kebabs, or at last a decent chicken tikka massala?
Posted: 29th, February 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Eduardo Da Silva, As Viewed By Rupert Murdoch
“SKY Sports’ refusal on Saturday to replay film of Eduardo da Silva’s dreadful injury…was an act of sensitivity not repeated by the internet ghouls.
“Clips of the moment the Arsenal forward suffered his career threatening injury were posted on YouTube almost as soon as the final whistle was blow…,” writes the Times’ Kevin ‘The Insider’ Eason.
Very noble of Sky Sports, owned by Rupert Murdoch. Boo to YouTube, not owned by Rupert Murdoch.
And “Ouch!” to the Sun which, for the second day running, shows a picture of Eduardo having his leg shattered.
The Sun is owned by, er, Rupert Murdoch…
Posted: 27th, February 2008 | In: Back pages, TV & Radio | Comment
The Law Of Battlestar Gallactica
BATTLESTAR Gallactica:
Dave Hoffman, Deven Desai, and I are pleased to present Part III of our interview with Ron Moore and David Eick, the creators, producers, and writers of the hit television show, Battlestar Galactica.
Part I of our interview explored the role of law in the show, exploring topics such as the legal system, lawyers, trials and tribunals, torture, necessity vs. moral principles, and deference to the military.
Posted: 26th, February 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
When Global Warming Attacks
GLOBAL Warming attacks!
Posted: 26th, February 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Top 10 Put Down On Amerians And UK TV
Basil Fawlty – Fawlty Towers. To Sybil: “Oh dear, what happened? Did you get entangled in the eiderdown again? Not enough cream in your eclair? Hmm? Or did you have to talk to all your friends for so long that you didn’t have time to perm your ears?”
Mrs Merton – The Mrs Merton Show. To Debbie McGee: “So what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?”
Edmund Blackadder – Blackadder II. To Lord Percy: “The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr Brain has long since departed, hasn’t he, Percy?”
Roseanne Conner – Roseanne. To husband Dan: “Your idea of romance is popping the can away from my face.”
Father Jack Hackett – Father Ted. “Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls!”
Carla – Cheers. Cliff: “I’m ashamed God made me a man.” Carla: “I don’t think God’s doing a lot of bragging about it either.”
Patsy Stone – Absolutely Fabulous. “One more facelift on this one and she’ll have a beard.”
Jim Royle – The Royle Family. Nana: “Is this hat too far forward?” Jim: “No. We can still see your face.”
Malcolm Tucker – The Thick Of It. To a junior minister: “All these hands all over the place! You were like a sweaty octopus trying to unhook a bra! It was like watching John Leslie at work!”
Statler and Waldorf – The Muppet Show. Statler: “Wake up, you old fool, you slept through the show.” Waldorf: “Who’s a fool? You watched it.”
Posted: 26th, February 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Holly Willoughby And Me: The Boobs Speak Out
HOLLY Willoughby is a shoo-in for A Top Ten finish in Channel 4’s 100 Best Breasts.
It is very likely that she will be in the top half dozen when the awards are given out for 100 Best Breast in a pro-celebrity ice dance show.
And there is talk of Holly Willoughby getting the nod to present 100 Best Breasts In A Refrigerated Studio on UK Living (sponsored by Hotpoint).
But Willoughby, who presides over the celebrity cull that is ITV’s Dancing On Ice, is so much more than the sum of her chest. As the Mail observes, she is wearing a “backless and almost bottomless” dress. Willoughby is nothing if she is not versatile.
Says one viewer: “My husband and I have great fun trying to bet how low her top will be each week.” Says another: “Why doesn’t she stop messing around and just do the show topless?”
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Posted: 26th, February 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
EastEnders Runs Out Of Plots
JOE Swash the speech impaired EastEnders “hunk” has been written out of the soap – rather “sensationally axed” – because his character Mickey “has run out of storylines”.
So reports the Sun, omitting to tell us how this can happen to a soap character.
Surely a plane can be found to crash land of Joe’s house, a drunk driver kill his dad or a girlfriend turn out to be his real mum? C’mon, EastEnders script wizards, can’t you find an MRSA bug for much-loved Joe? Or how about the Black Death?
The fear is that EastEnders has lost its way and no longer reflects real life…
A look at the news reveals some alternative plotlines, many leading to heated debates:
Joe is sentenced to death in China
Joe tursn to Buddhism and is killed by a faulty electric lawnmower
Joe is killed in a fairy cake eating contest
Joe dresses as turkey and represents the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest
Private Plane lands on house in Kent, where Joe is staying with his aunty (with whom he is having an incestuous relationship)
Posted: 25th, February 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment
Kerry Katona’s Crazy In Love Abridged
HIGHLIGHTS from Kerry Katona’s Crazy In Love mental ward-themed MTV show, starring the fomer Mrs Brian McPadded Room and her latest inmate:
Mark Croft (husband): You’ve got big tits
Katatonia: You’ve got a small willy
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Posted: 25th, February 2008 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comments (5)
Texas Students March 7 Miles Down Highway To Vote
STUDENT walks seven miles to cast their votes in Texas:
“Texas Republicans have worked overtime to make it harder for key Democratic voting groups to vote and be represented fairly. The redistricting games they’ve played are infamous. And for the Prairie View A&M University precincts, they put the early-polling place more than seven miles from the school.”
“So what did the students in this video do? They shut down the highway as they marched seven miles to cast their votes on the first day of early voting.”
Posted: 23rd, February 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
America’s Next Top Model: That;s Entertainment
AMERICA’S Next Top Model is the epitome of cable TV:
Posted: 23rd, February 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Ayaan Hirsi Ali And The Religion Of Peace’
Posted: 22nd, February 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Jonathan Ross On Consistency And Sly Stallone
JONATHAN Ross to Sylvester Stallone on his chat show:
“I’m glad to hear you’d go back and do Rambo again. I feel with this story you could tell more.”
Jonathan Ross on Film 2008:
“I kind of hope we don’t see him making another Rambo adventure.”
Posted: 22nd, February 2008 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comments (4)
John Gaunt On Rebekah Wade, the BBC And Ross Kemp
JOHN Gaunt is using his column in the Sun to good effect.
Says Gaunty: “SKY One spends a fortune bringing us the truth about Our Boys’ heroics in Afghanistan with Ross Kemp. The BBC makes a programme condemning Our Boys again. Just remind me which one is the state broadcaster we are forced to pay for…”
It’s the BBC, Gaunty. But no need to remind you which is the broadcaster owned by patriotic Rupert Murdoch, owner of the Sun, that paper edited by Kemp’s wife Rebekah Wade…
Posted: 22nd, February 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Marco Pierre White’s Hell’s Kitchen Seconds
MARCO Pierre White is back for another season of TV’s leading pro-celebrity cooking show Hell’s Kitchen.
Fans will wonder how White can make it back for seconds when even the first time round he appeared so very full of himself…
Posted: 22nd, February 2008 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comments (10)
Take A Ticket For Big Brother 9
“BIG BROTHER SHOCK PLAN WILL SAVE SHOW – Amazing twist to make new series most outrageous EVER”
Big Brother 9 will be more outrageous and shocking than Big Brother 8, which was more shocking than Big Brother 7, and so on.
The big twist is that wannabes who wanted to be on Big Brother 7 will be afforded the chance to be on Big Brother 9.
These failed Big Brother 7 applicants were the holders of Golden Tickets, bits of foil secreted inside special packet so KitKats.
The Star is upset by this and says “there are zillions of young men and women out there you would captivate viewers”.
No understatement there. And to prove how talented the UK is there are pictures of one “Snoozie” Susie Verrico bending over in her stockings and Danielle wearing a bikini.
It is an outrage that more of the zillions are not being allowed their chance to wear a short skirt and look back cheekily over their shoulders.
Readers offended by the bending of the Big Brother rules can stomp around and say how its “unbe-f*****g-lievable”, “so unfair” and have a hissy fit.
The dozen who can affect the most sense of self-righteous outrage can then be parachuted – still ranting – in to the house and thus help make BB9 as big a hit as BB8, BB7, BB6…
Posted: 21st, February 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (8)
Stephanie Flanders Makes A Stand For Ugy Women On The BBC
IN “BBC’s Stephanie Flanders condemns TV ageism”, BBC TV presenter Stephanie Flanders becomes the “latest high-profile journalist to criticise the lack of women over 50 on television”.
The Telegraph says that other “veteran television journalists”, including Anna Ford, Angela Rippon and Selina Scott have also accused the BBC of sexism in relation to older presenters. Ford rose to fame as the BBC’s first obese female newsreader. Miss Rippon was known for her pot-marked face and monobrow. Selina Scott was TV’s “black Jimmy Hill”.
Says Flanders, a one-eyed, hooked nosed, spotty 39-year-old: “Having lived there [USA], I am struck by the comparison with the US, where the likes of Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer can carry on – admittedly, still incredibly glamorous women.”
She adds: “I feel strongly about this and hope that the perception that you can’t advance beyond 50 will be seen as nonsense.”
We’ll see how Ms Flanders looks hold up…
Posted: 20th, February 2008 | In: Broadsheets, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Natasha Kaplinksy Is Quentin Letts’ On-Air Air Hostess
NATASHA Kaplinksy is on the sofa. Natasha Kaplinsky is being watched by the Mail’s adolescent Harry Potter, Quentin Letts.
The headline to his review: “Her blouse was unbuttoned well south of Watford. But news? Oh, dear, Natasha..”
It’s up to Bedfordshire for Little Letts as he dreams of Kaplinsky and her open-necked blouse and denim jeans.
There was a time when men fantasised over nurses. Then came women in combat uniform, air hostesses and supermodels. With each new episode of female emancipation a new male lust.
There was a period when women newsreaders were the stuff of daydreams, but then it passed. Now Kaplinsky is sat on a sofa and men are watching, or at least the Mail’s everyman is.
What the next object of male urges will be is hard to say. But it won’t be Ms Kaplinsky. It’s more likely to be female footballers, female celebrity chefs or World’s Strongest Women…
Posted: 19th, February 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Dancing On Ice: Celebrity Cull Moves To Families
TO the Dancing On Ice TV show, the extravaganza that seeks to reduce the UK’s celebrity mountain by offing minor stars with blades.
Readers of less certain stomach are encouraged to stare at presenter Holly Willoughby’s chest.
Many have fallen. And now grim news that the father of Willoughby’s co-presenter Phillip Schofield, is ill.
Says an insiders of Schofield’s “secretly dashed” moments: “One minute he’d be giving a flawless performance on Dancing On Ice and 40 minutes later he’d be climbing into a put-up bed by his dad’s side.”
Sun readers learn that this is “an inspiration”.
We are unsure who we should feel inspired other than to wish Mr Schofield, and his father Brian, the best of luck and hope that none of the dancers suffers too greatly…
Update: It was the saddest moment of TV this weekend..as Steve Backley was booted off Dancing With Ice, his four-year-old daughter Ellese burst into tears before millions of viewers.”
With right counselling and therapy, Ellese might pull through the trauma. These are worrying time for celebrities. Kill them off by all means. But is there any need to go after their families too?
Posted: 19th, February 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment
BBC Says Rafik Hariri And Hizbullah’s Imad Mughniyeh ‘Great National Leaders’
THE Jerusalem Post reports:
In an uncommon act of journalistic contrition, the BBC has apologized for equating former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh as “great national leaders.”
The BBC took the unusual step after Don Mell, the Associated Press’s former photographer in Beirut, lambasted the parallel, drawn by BBC correspondent Humphrey Hawkesley in a BBC World report last Thursday, as “an outrage” and “beyond belief.”
American journalist Mell was held up at gunpoint by Mughniyeh’s men as his colleague Terry Anderson, AP’s chief Middle East correspondent, was kidnapped in Beirut in March 1985.
The BBC issued a statement Friday acknowledging that “the scripting of this phrase was imprecise.”
A little Britsh understatement. And now over to Jenny for the global warming update for your region…
Posted: 18th, February 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Richard & Judy’s Secret Chat
“RICHARD & JUDY IN SECRET £4M TALKS.”
Front page news on the Daily Mirror of Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan, champions of daytime telly chatter.
And a little contest to kick the week of. Are these high–priced secret talks:
a) A new exclusive chatshow for the super rich?
b) A private chat with the Sultan of Brunei’s son, who has hired Richard & Judy to talk to him on his birthday?
c) Richard & Judy Unplugged – The Tour?
d) Richard and Judy speaking to lawyers and dividing up their wealth and chattels?
e) Plans to keep Richard & Judy on the airwaves?
The correct answer is (b). No, that really was a secret.
The answer is (e). Richard & Judy have announced they are quitting television. And now “TV’s golden couple have done a U-turn and are now hawking the popular Channel 4 programme around rival stations in an effort to stop it being consigned to broadcasting history”.
A “senior source” at programme-makers Cactus Television tells us: “We are talking to various different broadcasters about various different projects for post-September.”
Anyone who wants to know more can call 0800RJSECRET and find out. Calls cost £120 a minute, o.n.o. Let’s hit that £4milion, people!
All calls may not be recorded…
Posted: 18th, February 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment
Richard & Judy: What D’Yer Think Of It Sofa?
RICHARD & JUDY Update: The Mirror hails Richard & Judy’s “20 YEARS ON THE SOFA”, a headline that pretty much sums up their lives and those of their viewers.
It’s interactive TV at its most pioneering.
Posted: 18th, February 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
