MORAL DELINQUENCY:
ok i videod the j.springer op = will probably never see it to judge, but where were those 50,000 committed protesters when we needed em = night-vision shots of john mcc!rr!ck asleep naked (in his undies) = the radically daring van[…]

Sometimes you really do have to stoop to the lowest common denominator.
White Noise. Shite Noise more like.
(I really cannot be arsed to delve deeply into a review of this exceedingly flawed movie, which, passim last weeks comments, is the longest de[…]

Great Television Listings Of Our Time, pt. 95821:
7:00 pm
Watchdog
25 Years of Watchdog: Watchdog’s best known presenters return to re-live the bits people still talk about, including John Stapleton forgetting his wife’s name and Alice Be[…]

Jerry Springer The Opera and mediawatch’s letter to the BBC
There are apparently 50 protestors outside BBC TV centre right now (hmm). I go home that way, and I’m thinking of counter-protesting. If anyone has anything better to yell at the[…]

I’m Dying…But Not Yet
One unwelcome trend that the otherwise great availability of more Japanese, Chinese and Korean films has given us is the extended death scene. Perhaps it is due to the choice of weapons involved. In Hollywood, where […]

TRIPODS FILM FINDS DIRECTOR
Wha…? Who knew Tripods film was looking? This is potentially exciting for those of us who remember the Tripods TV series (the last hurrah for teatime sci-fi) which made it two thirds of the way through the trilogy bu[…]

What TV show had the highest ever British viewing figures?
Easy, eh? The Royal Wedding. Or the Morecambe and Wise ’78 Christmas special. Or England-Germany in 1996. Or Den and Angie, Christmas ’86. Or. Or.
It seemed like an obvious pub qu[…]

wive$watch (us style):
i. on first ep showing “desperate housewives” cd just as be called “stepford husbands” ii. picket-fence lynchism has become a viably mainstream US TV trope iii. i nearly didn’t bother as i caught […]

TV PITCHES FROM HELL
1: Dragon’s Den
Its like The X-Factor, but instead of entertainers, people pitch businesses at successful moguls.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
WHat if we call the moguls Dragon’s. You know. Make it sound more interesting than it[…]

PUBLOG STYLE REVIEW OF FRENCH SOUNDING CINEMAS IN LONDON
1: The Renoir
A lovely little art-house joint in the middle of a concrete canyon, namely the Brunswick Centre nr Russell Square. Two well situated, cool auditoriums showing almost exclusively n[…]