“If your fridge is full this Christmas, use nature’s refridgerator - your car” - Anthea Tuner on GMTV
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Workers sacked by Dervla Kirwan (6:30 ITV1) and David Jason (7:45 ITV2)
2009: Anorak’s Diary
Obama rising, Gore sinking, Jamie Oliver exported, Beckham chipping, Ledger returning
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Daily Mail Thinks EastEnders Is Fly On Wall Documentary
MORE signs that the Mail is unable to differentiate between fact and fiction in its story:
“NICE must throw open the files on Alzheimer ruling”
The story is of how the Alzheimer’s Society has won a battle to get the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to give anyone a look at how it calculates whether to allow drugs for use in patients showing early signs of the disease.
And the “Victim” seen in the picture by the story?
Why, it’s none other than Mo Butcher, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in the early 1990s.
Played by Edna Doré, an actress for whom Alzheimer’s dugs would do no good because she doesn’t suffer from the illness…
Posted: 30th, October 2008 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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October 30th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
The blurring of the lines of reality is weird. Check out the women’s magazines…… soap stars are headlined on the front pages as their characters; as news.
Even the old stalwarts Woman and Woman’s Own do it.
‘Maria is a pregnant widow, how will she cope? Our agony aunt gives her advice’ along side a photo of the actress looking sad.
IT’S NOT REAL.
October 30th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Spoilsport!
October 30th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
So, shall the Daily Wail swat Eastenders? and shall this upset Corrie or Emmerdale? and what of the Bill or that true to fiction Midsomer Murders ( and I just lurve that prog before anyone gets upset)
And what shall become of Dr Who and thingywotsit
October 30th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I don’t know.
Embarrassing as it is to admit it, the only time I ever see a soap opera is if I am in hospital and a fellow patient switches the tv on.
I have zero knowledge of tv series apart from stuff which the Offspring enjoyed, where it’s closer to 5%, and once humiliated her in public by not knowing who George Clooney was.
It’s one of the reasons I find Anorak so fascinating; it’s hard to beat it as an exercise in social anthropology…
October 30th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Dr Who is NOT a soap, Dr Who is brilliant, one of the best progs on tv.
Emmerdale is good, their disasters are wonderfully produced, no lack of blood and gore and guts and the pyroteccie bods are superb.
Eastenders, I feel, is the cause of so much depression in this country, I watched the frist 3 progs (spent the third hunting for the remote’s batteries to turn it off)
Midsomer Murders is great though at least half the cast are done away with most foully, and John Nettles leaves more hot dinners than he eats, but he was lovely as Bergerac…(nearly as nice as Rickman)
October 30th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Chenier said…. It’s one of the reasons I find Anorak so fascinating; it’s hard to beat it as an exercise in social anthropology…
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I said something similar once and the wrath of certain posters of that time was quite awesome to behold! I was impressed at my own ability to inadvertently offend. Very Russell Brand actually!!
October 30th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
June, I enjoy Midsomer but don’t agree about the Rickman similarity! Rickman is edgy and sexy, Nettles is comfortable. Nice but comfortable.
October 30th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
He is now, but not as Bergerac, and I did love that car he had
October 30th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
C&C
I think that your experience meshes with the whole ‘being able to write a book is elitist’ belief currently being thrashed across the pond as a reason for not voting for Obama; I finally gave up on it after I came across the explanation that McCain is not an elitist because he didn’t write his own books…