TV & Radio Category
Television and radio programme reviews, trailers, highlights, twilights and cinema news. Also the neglected gems from years past.
Pub Cat Flicks Through Copy Of The Times
IN this video a pub cat flicks through a copy of the Times. If he moves the pages very fast it will look like he’s reading the paper on the web – which fewer people now do because it’s gone behind a paywall.
Still, if you subscribe to the Times direct you can get the internet version included. But if you buy the paper from a newsagents every day, there is no code nor pass to get you on the website.
Just saying…
Posted: 10th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Coronation Street Live: Peter Finally Dies From Smoke Inhalation
CORONATION Street Live is gone. And with it go are Ashley Peacock, Peter Barlow and Molly Dobbs.
Peter was always going to die from smoke inhalation. But with his death, and those of Ashe and Molly, the average height of the Coronation Street case has raised a full half-inch to five-feet 2.
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Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
What To Do If Iran Launches A Nuclear Attack On Britain
IRAN and six world powers have been talking about nuclear stuff in Geneva. And while the talkers talk, the nuclear machine gets built. Although Fox News says the computer worm known as Stuxnet is causing havoc at the country’s two man nuclear sites. But we can worry. What to do? What to do? Here’s what. Chris Hayward and Nat Saunders have knowledge:
Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
MV Clelia II Hits Rough Seas: Pirates Don’t Bother To Attack
LIFE aboard MV Clelia II is fun. You actually feel like you’re on an actual boat in an actual rough sea in the middle of the actual Atlantic Ocean.
Last one to the marble bathroom’s a Somalian pirate!
Hilarious Video: Aboard The Pacific Sun Cruise Liner In Heavy Seas
Spotter: Time
Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Student Fees Demo: Japanese Join Westminster March (Video)
STUDENTS on the demo in Westminster, this is how you march. The Japanese do it with precision:
Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Fosters Ashes Advert Is Childish And Very Gratifying
THE Fosters Ashes advert in live. One Nil! A quick sketch by Anthony Richardson: (It’s a bit NSFW – volume down, cricket fans).
Spotter: Anorak Live
Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor: Proof That The X Factor Is Not Fixed
THE X Factor is not fixed. Cheryl Cole is the nation’s sweetheart. One Direction are not a cynical marketing ploy.
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Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Most Dangerous Snow Trick Ever: Video
WHEN building a huge snow manhood is not fun enough, the cool kids of Europe strap a mate /victim / relative to a sledge on a roof and push her off. She then falls. Falls. Falls. Falls. And then… Well, take a look. It’s not in the least bit dangerous – so long as you wear a hat and scarf…
Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
An Irishman Explains The Fall Of The Celtic Tiger To Americans (Great Stuff)
A “REAL Irishman” is on the streets of the USA talking to a genuine American TV reporter who fails to understand that when you encounter an angry Irishman the language can be fruity and blunt.
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Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Coronation Street: Metrolink Service Almost Back To Normal
CORONATION Street is not fact and that tram crash, though portrayed in the Manchester Evening News (The Weatherfield Gazette has been published an as insert) and on ITN news as an actual event, is made-for-TV scripted drama. No-one died. Well, Alastair Stewart’s career withered on the vine. But no-one died.
Still, half-a-dozen of the institutionalised, needy and other journalists who wacht the show called the Metrolink to see if the trams were back to normal, what with massive accident and all.
Incidentally, the actor who piloted the helm into Molly Dobbs is called Tom Burroughs.
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Posted: 8th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
The Penguins Have A Dilemma
PENGUINS – we have a dilemma…
Spotter: Arbroath
Posted: 8th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Dies Mating A Traffic Light In Virginia
RUDOLPH the Red Nosed Reindeer is dead. He died after being impaled on a set of traffic lights at the annual parade in Richmond, Virginia. Some says he spotted the red light and thought it a potential mate.
Spotter: Metro
Posted: 8th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
TV News Reporter Missing The Big Story Behind Him
BECAUSE the news is what’s happening around you, here’s a TV reporter missing what’s going on behind him. Remember: when you fall over its a tragedy; when she falls over its comedy…
Spotter: Rumor Rat
Posted: 7th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
I’m A Celebrity Contestants Return In Photos: Gillian McKeith’s Poo Fetish Explained
THE I’m A Celebrity gaggle arrived back at Heathrow Airport. Shaun Ryder hid his copy of Wuthering Heights and got back into character. He was with wife Joanne, son Oliver and daughters Pearl and Lulu. Oliver, Pearl and Joanne are all solid names of the old school. But Lulu belies the lurking luvvie.
Dom Joly emerged with his wife Stacey and daughter Parker and son Jackson. Dom’s children have surnames as first names. That is true middle class, with a dash of Republican Americana. Shaun Ryder, take note.
Linford Christie with and his daughter Brianna. Sheryl Gascoigne was with her children Bianca and Regan. Stacey Solomon cradled son Zachary. Lembit Opik sidled up to someone called Merily McGivern, which may be made up name.
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Posted: 7th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor Your Photos: Cher Hits Malvern And One Direction Skip Ireland
X FACTOR: Hello Malvern! Cher Lloyd is on her homecoming tour. Matt Cardle is in a branch of B&Q in Essex. And one Direction are in Doncaster, Bradford, Manchester, Wolverhampton and… No, not Ireland. Niall Horan tweets:
“Can’t come to ireland..the coach company can’t risk the icy roads .. But we wil be doin a live feed for ireland am on tuesday morning.”
The coach. Indeed, readers. They have no made it yet. Put the choppers on standby…
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Posted: 7th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Donald Trump’s Hair Tsunami Takes Off
DONALD Trump’s hair is a thing of wonder. But can it break ways and form its own career? Don and Don’s hair are getting snuggly in the Gillette Stadium Skybox. But, then, one of them wants away…
Posted: 7th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Video Flashback: IBA Engineering Announcements (2) 1984
AN Independent Broadcasting Authority announcements for the Radio & TV trade. TV has never been so pure:
Posted: 7th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The 12 Days Of Chavmas: And A Knocked Off Nintendo Wii
THE 12 days of Chavmas. Merry Crim-bo!
Posted: 7th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Coronation Street: Who Dies With Alistair Stewart’s Credibility (Photos)
CORONATION Street death mayhem Tram-down and the soap opera scores its audience for five years. If only they could kill a few characters every week, the show would return to former glories.
In all, 14.6 million Britons saw Norris, Molly and Ashley Peacock die. Ooops! Broadcast magazine says13.73m watched it all, not just tuning in for the good bit at the end when the tram hit the buckled rails and careered into Dev’s Mini Mart – with Dev, sadly, out.
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Posted: 7th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (13)
The Chinese Taxi Driver Is Going The Right Way
THE Chinese taxi driver is going the right way. It’s everyone else who is wrong…
Posted: 7th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Is The X Factor More Corrupt Than FIFA? One Direction Photos
THAT most manipulative, cynical TV show the X Factor shows FIFA that England can play up, play up, and play the game of voting rigging.
For Trinidad and Tobago’s Jack Warner, read Dermot O’Leart,who tells the folks gauching on their sofas:
“Your votes and your votes alone can get your favourite act safely through to the final.”
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Posted: 6th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Tigger Spoons Piglet: Pooh Bear Is Sexualised
TIGGER – Mr A Tiger – is spooning Piglet. Pooh would be envious. Isn’t that his bondage gear Piglet’s got on?
Says Dr Asif: “The source of Piglet’s anxiety is acute..”
Posted: 6th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
James Naughtie On Culture Secretary Jeremy *unt
JAMES Naughtie gets Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s name wrong on Radio 4’s Today program. Or does he?
Spotters: Michael Kritharis and Karen
Posted: 6th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
TV Captions: The Best Ones Ever
THOSE TV confessional shows feature people whose lives can be summed up in twelve words or less: Byron says he’s “proud to be a prostitute; “Lanieka eats four rolls of toilet paper a week”; “Kimberly says Gary accused the dog of giving him a hickey on her neck”. The TV researcher has listened to their stories and distilled the lot into one pithy, sensationalist line. Here are some of the best:
Posted: 6th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Man Almost Killed In Live TV Stunt: Crowd Give Low Scores
SAMUEL Koch is on the German TV show Wetten, Dass?. He will bounce over five cars wearing stilts with springs stuck to them. The cars arrive. Koch leaps. He lands horribly.
In the crowd, a couple of kids hold up sigs with an “O” on them? Is that a score? It’s a tough crowd.
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Posted: 6th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)
