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The worst thing on Television at the moment
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23 Aug 2009is the last shot of this Pepsi Max commercial:
It makes me angry beyond words. Well okay it doesn’t do half of that. However it is terrible. What exactly are they doing at the end there? I don’t understand. Maybe I refuse to understand or comprehend. In fact I do.
I’ve just been reading Charlie Brooker’s latest Screen Burn column. You should too. Then come back here.
Done that? Good. Right, where were we?
Okay, early on he sums up nicely one thing that really annoys me about television at the moment. Sometimes there is a need to explain who a person is, what makes them tick. [...]
Big Brother 10 – Reality Eats Itself
In: television
22 Jul 2009So tonight’s episode of Big Brother 10 had quite a lot going on. Kenneth the Evil Villain in tears over the thought of his girlfriend doing naughty things without him, despite one of his first sentences on greeting her in the house being “Wow, 58 days of loyalty, who would have thought it?” Siavash and [...]
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- Tags: bb, bb10, big brother, britains got talent, charlie, rodrigo, stavros flatley
You Have Been Watching – S01E03
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22 Jul 2009Last night’s show had a slightly different feel to it, it seemed like Charlie Brooker was a little brasher, a little louder, a little more cunty. This was no bad thing at all. Mixed in with some quality comments from Frankie Boyle (“they’re supposed to be experts, what did they expect when they cut open [...]
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- Tags: ch4, channel 4, charlie brooker, comedy, frankie boyle, panel show
The Television of 23 Years Ago
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1 Mar 2009One of the reasons I started using WordPress instead of Blogger was so that I could post some of my old diaries online (Blogger didn’t at the time allow you to go back beyond a certain date which was not early enough). Over time I’ve gradually been putting up some of those diary entries, and [...]
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