Words Dept.: category

As Jonathan Ross returns to our screens later, both ITV and the BBC’s flagship current affairs programmes have scheduled timely and hard-hitting investigations into the issue of very rich famous people saying “he fucked your grand-daughter” and stuff. ITV’s timely attempt to tackle to hard-hitting subject, part of the Tonight strand, was on earlier and [...]

Just before midnight last night I was looking at the official website of Tony Hart in an attempt to find the theme tune to his 1980s kids show Hart Beat. My aim – ultimately achieved – was to stream it through the stereo in order to prove to friends what a fine piece of electro [...]

I watched the last episode of the last season of The Wire tonight. I only started watching Season 1 in September after a friend recommended it with the kind of zeal you rarely encounter when people are talking about television programmes. Since then I’ve bought all the box sets (bar Season 3, which I borrowed) [...]

It’s now more than seven months since Channel 4 pulled The Devil Wears Primark, an Alexa Chung-fronted documentary (no, really) which was supposed to have examined Primark’s use of sweat shops. The C4 website says: The advertised transmission of The Devil Wears Primark on Sunday 1 June 2008 was postponed. We plan to show the [...]

I went out to John Lewis this lunchtime and bought a new telly. I know there’s a recession on and everything but having spent the New Year staring at the huge new flatscreen TVs owned by family members, I suddenly realised my beloved 26-inch JVC (bought seven years ago for £375 in cash from a shop [...]

As I’ve nothing better to do and 2008 has now definitely finished, I thought I’d provide you with my list of my favourite things from the year just gone. Happy New Year, by the way. Film I thought Wall-E was surprisingly deep for a kids film and was also technically flawless. But There Will Be [...]

Ofcom has ruled that an advert about the congestion charge shown on ITV earlier this month directed viewers to a website that “contained material that was almost exclusively in support of the congestion charge” and, as such, broke the Television Advertising Code rules on political impartiality. You might think this is quite a serious indictment. [...]

By far the most hideous aspect of this year’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here is the various idents for Iceland that appear around each ad break. They feature a range of party food that looks so disgusting it could easily become the subject of a Bushtucker Trial. Firstly, what the hell is [...]

Just before going to sleep last night I attempted to have a US election-based multimedia experience, which involved taking the laptop to bed (my intentions were pure) and surfing various sites to do with the vote. This, I am led to believe, is the done thing among web-savvy news hunters of the 21st century. Twitter, [...]

Nice to see someone is daring to divert from the Daily Mail party line over Russell Brand. Unfortunately that someone is… the Daily Sport. Russell Brand resigned yesterday following thousands of complaints about his Radio 2 show… But the Daily Sport is backing the long-haired weirdo…Forget all that Political Correctness Shite and BRING BRAND BACK!!! The [...]