TV & Radio Category
Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
The Voice v Britain’s Got Talent – who do we hate the most
ANOTHER year, another round of the usual “reality” offerings from both terrestrial giants. The BBC have plumped for The Voice and ITV are once again knocking out Britain’s Got Talent. The question seems to be: who will prevail in the ratings war that hangs inevitably around the corner? The other question might be: does anyone really care?
The big question for the producers is if their format shows can keep the audience’s interests after the freaks, weirdos and entertainingly talentless have been mocked and kicked off?
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 13th, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
In photos – Television and Radio Industries Club awards 2012
TUESDAY. The Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane, London, for the Television and Radio Industries Club awards. Past presidents of these prestigious awards (it says here) are: Charlie Dimmock, Ainsley Harriott and Spandau Ballet front man Tony Hadley. This year’s president is Eamonn Holmes. For such a starry luncheon, a stella cast: Kerry Katona, Mark Wright, Sam Faiers, Joey Essex, Nicola McLean, Sam Aston, Dane Bowers, Nancy Dell’Olio, Georgia May Foote, Amy Childs, Peter Andre, Andrea McLean, Janet Street-Porter, and Sherrie Hewson. Which one will be voted Weather Presenter of the Year? And why arene’t any of them working?
13040692
Posted: 13th, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Melati Suryodarmo performs the Butter Dance – a video
MELATI Suryodarmo will not perfoam the butter dance. Melati Suryodarmo was nborn in 1969 in Surakarta, Indonesia. She lives and works in Braunschweig, Germany. Butter dance is her signature piece.
20 blocks of butter in a square on the black dance carpet. Suryodarmo enters the space, dressed in a black tight dress and red high heels. She steps on the pieces of butter. She starts to dance to the sound of indonesian shamanistic drums. She dances and falls, hitting the floor hard, rising, and continuously being on the verge of standing, slipping and falling in the butter. After twenty minutes Suryodarmo rises one last time, covered in butter, and leaves the space.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 11th, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
BBC TV news reporter falls asleep at desk – video
IN this video the BBC news reporter Simon McCoy falls asleep at his desk. Replacing the autocue with the the new Twlight saga book was always dangerous…
McCoy tweets:
“I was not asleep! Had just been told The Queen wanted me to cover her NEXT visit…t was a long desk head-banging that wasn’t meant to be picked up in the BBC1 opt!!”
Posted: 9th, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The reporter walks into a lamp-post
THE reporter walks into a lamp-post…
Posted: 9th, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Coronation Street’s Deirdre Rachid is a chair
DEIRDRE Rachid, the Coronation Street femme fatale, is now a chair in Top Man:
Spotters: @mydadisloaded and @NickyColman
Posted: 9th, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Playing the kitty cat organ – a video
HE’S entertained royalty. And now Henry Dagg will entertain you with his Kitty Cat organ. All cats were neutered immediately after filming…
Posted: 8th, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
How to make your video go viral on YouTube – get it on the TV
HOW to make your video go viral on YouTube. The secret is…there isn’t one. It’s about celebrity endorsements and geting it on the telly. (One other thing – do all experts on the internet always have this chap’s accent? In the 1970s and 80s, all computer experts sounded like Hal from 2001 A Space Odyssey or Speak ‘n’ Spell. No they sounds like acto in The Dead Poet’s Society. Is YouTube a haven for creativity or just a big brad that get your stuff for free?
Posted: 8th, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Hippopotamus enters race for the White House – video
WHAT do you think of it so far, Mr Hittopopamous?
Posted: 6th, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The solitary laugh – how to laugh in an empty room
THE Solitary Laugh – how to laugh in an empty room, or in a full room when feeling alone…
Posted: 6th, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Every Top Of The Pops in one video
IT’S Top of The Pops!!!!!!
Spotters: Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris, Retronaut
Posted: 5th, March 2012 | In: Flashback, TV & Radio | Comment
Mother throws knives at child – 1950s video gold
IN this video, the mother throws knives at her young leotard-clad child. The crowd ooos and aahhhhs. Mum went on to work with axes and, in a nod to modernity, Kenwood electric carving knives. The child grew up and opened a chain of kebab shop in South London…
Posted: 5th, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Talking Trash Fail – when pictures have heard enough
TALKING Trash Fail – when pictures have heard enough. (language is NSFW). Why did she post the clip? Is she a comedy genius?
Spotters: @serafinowicz , @moshekasher
Posted: 4th, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Tom Waits is now performing as a dog
TOM Waits is now performing as a dog:
Posted: 3rd, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Tricks with fat people – the vanishing pencil
YOU’LL miss the fat people when they’ve all be culled with the smokers or made thin. Here’s what only fat people can do – the vanishing pencil:
Posted: 2nd, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Robot Quadrotors perform James Bond theme
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 1st, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Westlife. All is forgiven
THERE hasn’t been much bad TV out of me lately. Reason being, I’m just back from a trip to Japan.
Luckily, a late night flick around the channels granted me this clip which I carefully transported home with me on my flipcam.
Precious cargo indeed.
I don’t know how I got it through customs to be honest. I thought we were on high alert?
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 28th, February 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
TV caption of the day – the toilet cracks
TV Caption of the Day – the woman heard “crack when she sat on toilet”…
Previously:
Posted: 27th, February 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Dancing On Ice: Celebrity Cull as Jorgie Porter cuts dance partner Matt Evers’ face
MORE blood on the Dancing On Ice Celebrity Cull as Jorgie Porter cuts into dance partner Matt Evers’ face.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 26th, February 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Japanese infomercial of the day
JAPANESE infomercial of the day:
Posted: 25th, February 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
A video of a dog playing pool
THIS is a video of a dog playing pool:
Posted: 24th, February 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Woman gets head caught in Tesco trolley – video
MUCH furore over Tesco using cheap labour in its stores. But things are about to get worse for the supermarket chain. In this video smuggled out of a Tesco store in Sligo, Ireland, Mess Ewing is filmed with her head stuck in a trolley. There is no escape from Tesco. Or is there? (Language is NSFW.)
Posted: 24th, February 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (5)
The electrocuted monkey makes a recovery – video
TO Suriname, to see the capuchin monkey recovering after electrocuting itself on a power transformer…
Posted: 23rd, February 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Cassetteboy Versus the BBC News
CASSETTEBOY Versus the BBC News:
Posted: 22nd, February 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Whitney Houston is dead Channel 5: ‘She looks better in a body bag’
WHITNEY Houston is dead and Channel follows a trailer for a corpse-still-warm ghoulish show about the singer’s demons with an indent featuring a puppet saying”She looks better in a body bag”…
Touchings stuff from Five, the stablemate to OK!, the organ that which gave us the greatest Whitney tribute ever….
Posted: 22nd, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
