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Century Falls
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Century Falls was one of the children’s drama series that kicked off Russell T Davies’ career: I’ll come clean and say it’s unlikely I’d ever have watched it if not for this connection to Doctor Who – I was curious[…]

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Pomp and Circumnavigation
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On Saturday, a crack FT team took it upon themselves to brave the wilds of North West London, in order that we could report back to you, dear reader, on the condition and facilities of the nu-Wembley stadium. We did it all for you, you ungrateful sod[…]

Blowing Chunks*
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The film Sleeping Dogs (intelligently but less catchily titled Stay in the US, also known as the equally clever and Sleeping Dogs Lie) has one of the best opening lines I can remember hearing in the cinema. Now opening lines are hard to get right, an[…]

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Week 12
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LIE from the Long Island Expressway. Host Tom for a second until Eli arrrives, guests Tom, Alan and Alix (and Pete). McCoys crisp eating, Young Girls and Happy Endings – Gorkys, Hoaxes (again), Eli’s confusion at spaghetti hoax, the cardiff giant, Tanya and Lionel Ritchie, Margaret Berger – Robot Song, filling gaps in people’s brains, the unreliability of vision, the unreliability of pete, korsakov’s syndrome, is you is or is you aint my baby – buster brown, aliases on the internet and second life, Untrue Unfaithful – Nina Rossi.

The Twilight Princess is a hottie, the game itself not so much
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Anticipation for the Wii and its ‘killer’ game Zelda: Twilight Princess had ‘unreasonably raised expectations’ written all over it. What creative game developers will be able to do with the wiimote is still in the stage of pre[…]

Daily Show and Flavor Flav Explains DST ‘Aclockalypse Now’
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Maybe many brits aren’t aware, but thems ‘mericans start DST early from this year. At work, our New York office has only been four hours behind for the last few weeks. Finally this monday we get that all important fifth hour of peace befo[…]

BRANDWATCH: Sony’s PR Stunt*
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Magnus poses the following burning question. And I read:
This is a question for the people with marketing knowledge, and the marketers that lurk inside us all:
Sony gave away a free HD-TV, worth a fair few pennies each, for anyone they found queuing […]

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Sir Daily Show
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“I eat prosecution lawyers for breakfast! I eat them also for lunch! And for tea! And elevenses! And midnight snacks!”
No, ITV have decided that their plan to run inferior reality TV shows against Big Brother this year was, well, a bit st[…]

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SHARK, LLM – “it writes itself” pt 275627865782
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Following Freaky Trigger’s favourite show, House, Five has decided to schedule a new US import called SHARK! Which stars James Woods as a maverick lawyer, who is CROSS! A little like House, he shouts at a team of minions a lot! A little like H[…]

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Planet Of The Arabs
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It is coming up to the time for the London Palestine Film Festival, which is run by the Palestine Society at SOAS, and has been a rip-roaring success over the past few years. Having gone from a small University only festival, to now having half their[…]

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