Archive for the 'BBC' Category
This fly-on-the-wall documentary was one of about three programmes that made up the BBC Four so-called Beatles Week. It was filmed by Albert and David Maysles, and is a reworking of an 81-minute film they made in 1964 called What’s Happening! The Beatles in the USA.
Some of the footage is familiar from the Anthology series, [...]
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Happy Families
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the fact that the BBC is making a huge fuss about not showing it giving the Gaza Appeal even more publicity than if they did?
But it’s not as if they ever have any perspective when the story concerns themselves. This is one step removed from the news anchor [...]
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Best Ever Chorus?
FiveLive Breakfast have been having a phone vote for the best chorus ever over the past few weeks. I missed the bit where they asked for nominations, which they whittled down to a final 9, and then did a 4-day vote for the best, which turned out to be “Delilah”, written by Les Reed and [...]
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Christmas Telly
I don’t watch telly much when I’m in France. It’s not just because it’s all in French, but also because French TV just doesn’t seem to evolve quickly enough. They’re still doing the same peak time quiz shows they were doing 10 years ago, and those interminable panel programmes in which minor French celebrities make [...]
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Tags: steampunk
Whoops Apocalypse: Survivors
Survivors was one of my favourite TV things when it was broadcast lo those many years ago. I liked Abby, the woman who was looking for her son, and felt the life went out of the series when she left it. I believe the actress was fired for being an alcoholic or something, at which [...]
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Tags: Survivors
Under Scrutiny
As an Americanist, I am of course qualified to comment on the US elections, unlike the guest on Gaby Logan’s show on BBC 5Live, who expressed the opinion that he did not believe Americans would be able to bring themselves to vote for a black candidate.
I texted in to ask when it was that the [...]
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Tags: mccain, obama, politics, press, us election
New Offside Rule Proposal
Chief footie referee Keith “Hack it” Hackett has opined that the BBC’s Match of the Day pundits don’t understand the offside rule. I have long thought it the case that most of the pundits on TV and radio don’t understand most of the rules of the game, which is why they perpetually complain, “He went [...]
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Tags: football, footie, soccer
BBC1 – I couldn’t be bothered to get into Damages, which some (including the Radio Times editor) have raved about. I recorded the first episode, but then didn’t pay attention to it when I played it back. I’ve never liked Glenn Close, and I’m always wary of the things critics rave on about, stuff like [...]
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Whoctor Do
Well, the plot was straight out of The Sarah Jane Chronicles (which is about RTD’s level, I think), but I haven’t laughed so much at anything on TV since I was watching my Seinfeld boxed set DVDs.
The scene where Catherine Tate and David Tenant mime and mug at each other through two sets of windows [...]
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Tags: Doctor Who
Liar, Liar…
“All my exes owe back taxes”
The fire service were called earlier to deal with a fire in the vicinity of Heather Mills’ pants. The full text of the judge’s decision is available to read (PDF). Here are some highlights.
Paragraph 15: The husband’s evidence was, in my judgment, balanced. He expressed himself moderately though at [...]
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