TV & Radio Category
Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
Blue Are Back For Eurovision As The Official Sound Of The BBC
BLUE are back – finally. The boys have stepped away from the stella post-boy-band careers (fries, sir?) to do their patriotic duty and serve the nation at the Eurovision Song Contest. It’s Red, White and BLUE.
Blue were chosen for the job by the BBC, so making the young middle-aged dudes the official sound of the state broadcaster. And how cool is that!
Posted: 31st, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Is That Sexism On Soccer AM Or A Prelude To A Murder?
RICHARD Keys and Andy Gray are sacked for their sexist attitudes towards women in football, and on the Soccerettes pages of Sky Sports Saturday morning show Soccer AM, you can see this photo.
Is it all post-modern and ironic, like the Sun tries to do with its Page 3 Girls by placing into their mouths bon mots of the great and good?
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Posted: 31st, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Mon Petit Cat Will Now Juggle For You
WITH five tins of Mon Petit on its head the cat-tastic Great Stupendo will flip them up, open them with his claws and in the same movement divide the meaty chunks into five bowls. Unless the tape runs out first. Darn!
Posted: 31st, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Not Even Kim Kardashian’s Breasts Can Save Piers Morgan
CAN Kim Kardashian’s breast save Piers Morgan from a slump in the TV ratings? No. Morgan scooped 2.1million viewers for show one. But now, even with Kardashian’s breasts (not fake) – “They’re 100 percent real!” – he was watched by just 498,000 people. And 243,654 of them are Kardashians…
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Posted: 30th, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
One Direction Take On The Groupies: X Rated X Factor Photos
WHAT happened to sort-of-singing, sort-of-dancing X Factor boy band One Direction following their defeat and Harry Styles’s famous on-air comment to show winner Matt Cardle (“Think of how much pussy you’re going to get”)?
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Posted: 30th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Basketball Player Slam Dunks Himself
IN this video a basketball player dunks himself. In the future, all sports will be played without balls. Look out for missing the ball being repackaged as Air Cricket, Air Tennis and Air Golf…
Posted: 29th, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Richard Keys Is The Touchline Taliban: A Victim Of The Thought Police
WHEN Richard Keys wondered if his Sky Sports colleague Jamie Redknapp had “smashed it”, we knew it would not be long until we met the object of that sniveling off-air comment. So. Here’s Louise Glass, the Sun’s “shocked mum”.
The Sun is keen to add more public humiliation on Keys, whose crimes were to make comments he thought would never see the light of day.
It’s hard to find anyone willing to stick up for Keys in public, or indeed for his old mucker Andy Gray, whose antiquated views were also delivered in what he believed was a private conversation.
Before we meet Glass, the Mail’s Charles Sales types out this line in the Daily Mail, a paper that’s hardly a bastion of sexual enlightenment given its continued employment of the “unnatural” Jan Moir:
Middle East network Al Jazeera is being mooted as the most likely next destination for Gray and Keys, who worked for the burgeoning sports operation during Euro 2008. However, Al Jazeera, who are trying to distance themselves from the reputation of being al Qaeda’s preferred mouthpiece, are wary of the negative publicity signing the pair would bring.
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Posted: 29th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
Epic Fail: BBC Words Smith Michael Rosen Talks To The Sun’s John Kay
ON Michael Rosen’s Word of Mouth show on BBC Radio 4, he visited the Sun’s newsroom. The show “explores the world of language and communication”.
The Sun was used to illustrate how every word matters. Every part of every sentence is deliberate and deliberated over.* Just as Rosen’s show has limited space (30 minutes), the Sun has space for each story. Mindful of the power of words, Rosen spoke with the Sun’s award winning chief reporter, John Kay.
Kay told how the talented sub editors always make his story better.
Rosen wondered if changing his pros annoyed Kay. He asked Kay:
“But surely you want to kill them..?”
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Posted: 28th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
RAED Is The Fisher Price Rapper: Hip Hop Not Dead Yet
WHAT news of RAED, Melbourne’s rapper supreme?
Watch the video and let us know which bit you like best. Is it the long, boring intro with the dire acting? Is it the whiny sound, like listening to a baby mewling though a partially closed door? (If Fisher Price did a rap machine, this is what it would sound like.)
She left me at a Christmas barbeque
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Posted: 28th, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Apprentice Star Christoper Farrell Convicted For Fraud
WERE it not for his showing on The Apprentice, Christopher Farrell’s conviction for fraud would not be a national story. But he went on the telly and that means his actions matter.
It would have been a better story had Farrell won the show and gone to jail. Inside he would have been a fallen role model.
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Posted: 28th, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Scientists Discover Sexy Newsreaders Are Best For War Reporting
DOES a ridiculously fit newsreader distract you from taking in the full horror of the TV news? Researchers at Indiana Universoty have investigated if being sexually aroused by the news anchor negates the story.
You can read about their work in “Sexual Cues Emanating From the Anchorette Chair: Implications for Perceived Professionalism, Fitness for Beat, and Memory for News”.
Yep. “Fitness to Beat.” Fnar.
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Posted: 28th, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)
American Idol: Randy Rainbow Proves That Steve Tyler Is Janice Dickinson
RANDY Rainbow explains why you have not been watching this season’s American Idol – and why you don’t need to. And – yep – Steven Tyler is Janice Dickinson:
Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Mrs Richard Keys V Jonathan Ross: Why No Save Keys Protest Outside Sky?
RICHARD Keys and Andy Gray have been sacked from Sky Sports. Says a reader of Gray:
“I think he should be replaced by a woman; preferably one as fit as f*ck and with big t1ts!”
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
EKLIPS Presents The History Of Hip Hop: Beat Box Nostalgia
THE history of hip-hop is the sound of your youth. It’s what the cool kids have been listening to. In this video, French beat box Name That Tune musical archivist EKLIPS performs a 4 minutes history of HIP HOP.
How many can you name? I got eight…
Spotter: Like Cool
Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
National Television Awards 2011 Photos: Inside Louis Spence
THE National Television Awards in pictures: After the Cheryl Cole v Kerry Katona tattoo Smack Down, all eyes fell on Louie Spence, that prancing, gurning, mincing, shrieking, 1970s TV recidivist star of Pineapple Dance Studios.
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (3)
The National TV Awards Photos: Cheryl Cole’s Tramp Stamp And Katona’s Coloured In
THE National TV Awards are the AGM that everyone in telly is talking about. At the O2 Arena in London, the people who live inside the magic box arrived to be seen. So we looked. And we saw Cheryl Cole’s tramp stamp tattoo – it’s a moth riding a scorpion into Princess Anne’s lawn – and Kerry Katona, who seems to have got the felt tips in the split with Mark ‘Crofty’ Croft and coloured in her back tattoo of his name in black ink. Yeah, why not orange and make it blend in..?
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
BBC TV Host Chris Addison Encourages Islamists To Murder George Bush: HIGNFY Jumps The Shark
ON tonight’s Have I Got New For You, actor Chris Addison looked at a photo of George W Bush and his father George Bush and offered:
“Where’s a Yemini printer cartridge when you need one.”
Before this comment on how good it would be to see two ex presidents of this country’s biggest ally murdered by Islamists, the guest host had been making fun of Republicans for being “rabid Right Win… banshees“– while failing to highlight any stupid, gun toting Democrats.
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Posted: 26th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
Richard Keys: The Loose Men Audition Tape
RICHARD Keys still has a job at Sky Sports. Andy Gray, his chum has gone, that fellow Grand Master of Football Chess. Had only they been women talking about stupid men on Loose Women, or two wise housewives on an advert for a cleaning product that those idiotic men cannot fathom out, they’d have been ok.
Anyhow, without further ado, here is Richard Keys chatting with the lads about Jamie Redknapp’s former lover:
Stoopid men:
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Posted: 26th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Kokichi Sugihara Proves That Up Can Be Down: Video
IN this video Kokichi Sugihara will prove that up can be down and down can be up. Perspective, people. It’s all about perspective…
Posted: 24th, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Best Crazy Golf Shot Of The Year: Golf Need Not Be Just For Rule Fetishists
NO great surprise that the short version of golf if called “Crazy Golf”. Any sport that buttoned up – a haven for the obedient and insufferable school bastard whose fetish for rules makes him the epitome of the golf club type – would spawn a lunatic cousin. Here’s the best Crazy Golf Shot Of The Year:
Posted: 24th, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
This Is How BBC America Sells Law & Order: It’s Brilliant
THE trailer for BBC America’s bradcast is about – say – 1 bazillion times better than the turgid show Law & Order.
Spotter: FeelingListless, Viscious Imagery
Posted: 23rd, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Bus Driving Video Of The Day: The Nicaragua Waterfall
BUS Driving Video of The Day: the right kind of waterfall on the road – in Nicaragua:
Spotter: Arbroath
Posted: 23rd, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
BBC Calls Erica Cantona A C**t
THE BBC’s Olly Foster has just called Eric Cantona, the posing seagull-chasing Manchester United legend, a c**t.
Canton is now director of soccerball at the New York Cosmos. Foster introduces a segment on Cantona:
“How cool is that? Great to see. Eric C*** . . . Cantona.”
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Posted: 22nd, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Cat Leap Video Of The Day
CAT leaps video of the day. To infinity and beyoooooond….
Posted: 20th, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Vanessa Feltz, Channel Five And The Living Hell Of Writing For The Daily Express
VANESSA Feltz might be post-gastric band but she continues to fill the daytime schedules like a bulking agent in a packet of own-brand baps. She’s the face and more of a terrific show on FIVE (owner: Richard Desmond). Readers of the Express (owner: Richard Desmond) will surely be tuning in.
David Stephenson is the Express’s TV reviewer. Under the headline “THE WEEK’S REVIEW: FANTASTIC VANESSA FELTZ IS A MUST-SEE”, he tells readers how rubbish the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are.
C4 has trapped people in the land of repeats
So not like Channel Five, then, which follows Vanessa with CSI (repeat), The Business Inspector (repeat), Animal Rescue Squad (repeat)..?
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Posted: 19th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (14)
