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Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.

Drunk Russian Driver Uses His Cigarettes As A Phone

THE Russian drunk driver will now make a call to his representatives on his cigarette phones:

As one Muscovite puts it: “In Soviet Russia, cigarettes called you.”


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Posted: 14th, May 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Rap Battle: Albert Einstein vs. Stephen Hawking (Music Video)

RAP Battle of The Day: Einstein vs. Stephen Hawking (Music Video)…

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Posted: 13th, May 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)


Charlie Sheen To Be Replaced By Ashton Kutcher To Make Two And A Half Men Most Loathesome Sitcom Ever

YOU may have thought that Two and a Half Men was pretty irritating when Charlie Sheen was in it. It was remarkable that Sheen somehow managed to become even more galling when he acrimoniously quit the show and spent his time coming up with personal memes, haranguing adult actresses, making women cry in cupboards, punching chandeliers and hoovering up suitcases of coke… and generally looking more hallowed out than the inside of a Shredded Wheat bisk.

Well, the makers of the dreadful sitcom have performed an impossible trick by finding the one man who walks this godforsaken planet who is more irritating than Sheen himself. And without the use of drugs.

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Posted: 13th, May 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)


Revolution Spreads To America: Arab Freedom Drive Gets Results

THE revolution has spread to America:

Apotter: Arabist

Posted: 10th, May 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Cheryl Cole Wins US X Factor, Loses Feet: Photo Horror

CHERYL Cole has won a job judging Americans on the X Factor – but she has – gulp! – lost her feet.

You do what you must to get ahead…

Posted: 9th, May 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Dog Waits For Statue To Throw The Stick: Video

THE dog wait for the statue to toss the stick:

Posted: 7th, May 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (3)


Lea Michele Thinks Her Nose Will Take Lead Role In Glee Movie

HEY everyone! There’s going to be a Glee movie out this summer! How amazing is that? Not very? Well aren’t you a bunch of spoilsports?! In fairness, you’re spoilsports that are absolutely bang-on-the-money, but still, you could at least fake excitement for those dribbling idiots you know who can’t live without some Glee in their life.

That’s right. There are people who actively seek out television shows filled with grinning Americans performing thousand-part harmonies while dancing around with all the sex appeal of a hat stand.

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Posted: 6th, May 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


World’s Got Talent: Mr M Brasilerio’s Magick

WORLD’S Got Talent, Anorak’s in-house TV show, introduces Mr. M Brasileiro, of Brazil. Feel the magick:

SO FAR:

USA: Mark Gormley
USA: Lori Watt

USA: Cutie Pattootie

France: Giorgio Moody

Russia: Edouard Hill

China: Bony Enemy

Australia: RAED

Posted: 6th, May 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


The Ducklings And The Yo-Yo: Video

THE Ducklings And The Yo-Yo video explains why ducks are so good at working in launderettes:

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Posted: 6th, May 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Cheryl Cole Confirmed As US X Factor Judge (With Added Subtitles)

POP-CULTURE mogul, Simon Cowell, really does have the softest of spots of Cheryl Cole. Apart from the boring ‘she works really hard and does as she’s told’ likelihood of favour, we shudder to think what she may have done to secure such a place in Cowell’s chequebook.

After transforming her from the most fancied one in Girls Aloud who may have smacked a toilet attendant in the face as well as marrying a self-serving footballing shit-basket to The Nation’s Sweetheart Of The Estates, Cowell now seems adamant in his endeavours to make Cole go global.

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Posted: 5th, May 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Robber’s Getaway Hampered By Loose Trousers: Video

IN this video you will see the man who has robbed the E-Z Food Store in Lake Wales, Florida, dash to his black Chevy Lumina with dark tinted windows and no plates.

He enters the store empty handed and leaves cluthing  two cases of Bud Light beer. Then his trousers fall down.

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Posted: 1st, May 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Give David Pedersen A Job: CV Video Of The Day

SOMEONE give David Pedersen a job:

Posted: 30th, April 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Coco Austin Takes On Kim Kardashian In Big Buttocks Smack Down (With Spartacus): Photos

COCO Austin is the star of a new reality TV show. How did it take so long? Anorak’s Woman of the Year will show Kim Kardashian and her K-Klan built on a leaked sex tape and a massive pair of depilated buttocks what talent looks like on an HD, wide-screen jumbo-tron. (Note to Old Mr Anorak: buy now to avoid disappointment.)

See all and more of Coco here (NSFW)

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Posted: 28th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment


Jamie Redknapp Explains Manchester United

MANCHESTER United fans tuning into Sky to watch their side take on Schalke in the Champions’ League were treated to this gem from Jamie Redknapp, the pundit who knows:

What a performance from Manchester United, how they’re not two or three goals up is beyond me. The only reason is the goalkeeper it’s as simple as that.”

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Posted: 28th, April 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


A ‘Professional Russian’ Showcases The AA 12 Gun

THE AA12 gun is awesome. But, the inventor has a word of warning:

“Don’t try this at home … I’m a professional Russian!”

Posted: 26th, April 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


The Chipmunk Vanishes: Video

THE Chipmunk Vanishes!

Posted: 24th, April 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Britain’s Got Talent 2011 Week 2: Edward Reid, Razy And Finger Stuffing Michael McIntyre

BRITAIN’S Got Talent 2011 – Week 2: the World’s Weakest and Strongest Fingers; Razzy dances, Edward Reid claps, and Michael McIntyre stuffs and old man:

Edward Reid sings nursey rhymes to the tune of Leona Lewis’ Run. Britain hasn’t got talent-  it’s got Edwardian parlour games:

“I teach a group called the Nifty Fifties which are pensioners. I teach them drama, which is a fantastic class. I like working with people with special needs, they seem to have amazing personalities. Somehow they have no inhibitions, so all the classes are always funny and entertaining. I used to work in a day centre and i used to walk about singing all the time and someone said to me, ‘You’ve got a nice voice,’ and I’ve never heard that before.”

Elaine’s Weakest Finger:

“I’m over 21, I’m from Manchester and I go to college. I’m doing a cookery course, learning soup and sauces.”

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Posted: 23rd, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment


RIP John Sullivan: The BBC Repeats Its Love

RIP John Sullivan. You wrote Dear John, Citizen Smith, Just Good Friends (an Anorak guilty pleasure) and Only Fools and Horses. You were only 64. The BBC will mark the passing of a writer who made some of the broadcaster’s best stuff. Expect a huge retrospective and lots of repeats*.

* Repeats are no bad thing. When the theatre, ballet or opera shows things again it is because the product is deemed worthy by an elite. When telly repeats a show, the critics get snotty.

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Posted: 23rd, April 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Cookie The Giggling Penguin Is The Cutest Thing Ever (Right Now)

COOKIE The Penguin wants you to know how cute he is. Sure, your fingers smell of fish, which drives him cray-zee. But he needs neither inducement nor artificial stimulant to be cute. He just is.

In this video, Cookie the Little Penguin is tickled at the Cincinnati Zoo. The bandage on his foot is for his “bumblefoot”. Yep, even his illness is cute. Bumbelfoot – like that can hurt, right?

Posted: 22nd, April 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Eric Hubbard Lost His Hamburger In A Tornado

LOCAL News Hero Of The Day is Eric Hubbard who explains what the tornado meants to him and his life: it took his burger. Antoine Dodson repsonds: “It’s coming in your windows, snatchin’ ya burgers up, tryin’ to eat em so ya need to hide your soda, hide your fries, and hide your burgers…”

Posted: 19th, April 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Britain’s Got Talent: Daily Mail Says Show Has Slumped All Over Its Front Page

ODD of the Daily Mail to highlight the apparent fact that “A MILLION VIEWERS SWTICH OFF BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT”.

TV reviewer Simon Cable (nominative determinism, readers) brings news that Britain’s Got Talent is no longer so popular by, er, telling Mail readers on the paper’s front page:

“It has been described as ‘a national obsession.”

It has. Simon Cable just did it on the front page of the Daily Mail.

According to ITV1 figures, the first show of the fifth series drew a peak audience of 10.9million on Saturday – 1.3million down on last year’s opening night.

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Posted: 18th, April 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Britain’s Got Talent 2011: Gay And Alan Cooper Are Winning With Stephen Hall

BRITAIN’S Got Talent is back. Glenn Hoddle look alike David Hasselhoff has taken Simon Cowell’s seat on the judging panel. To his right, fellow judge Amanda Holden appers to have only narrowly survived a tumble into the Botox vat Cowell left behind in his changing rooms.

But the stars of the show are not only the face surgeons but the likes of Gay and Alan Cooper, who performed a version of the Titanic soundtrack on hand bells.

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Posted: 16th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment


RIP Trevor Bannister: A Career In Photos

RIP Trevor Bannsiter. You were Mr Dick Lucas in Are You Being Served?. You were slso in pretty much every touchstone British TV show of the past 60 years: Last of the Summer Wine, Casualty, Coronation Street, Silent Witness , Keeping Up Appearances, The Tomorrow People, Crossroads, Armchair Theatre, Steptoe and Son, Z Cars, Softly Softly , The Saint, Dixon of Dock Green, The Avengers and Dr. Finlay’s Casebook.

Yep, he was the cheeky by John Inman’s inside leg…

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Posted: 16th, April 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Middle Classes Hire Dog Child Minders As European Au Pairs Reject UK

THE middle classes have been forced to hire dogs to take care of their children as the recession in Portugal and Spain bites into the au pair market:

Posted: 16th, April 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Guilty Cat Did It: Video

AFTER guilty dog, meet not-so-innocent cat:

Posted: 15th, April 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment