The Great British Spelling Test ITV 9.00pm
Innoculate! Noticable! Cemetary! Foriegn! Ecstacy!
This was a surprisingly enjoyable ninety minutes, spoiled only by the rather annoying talking heads: a selection of ITV newsreaders and representatives […]

aaargh bah grrrr sigh!!!
after nearly a decade of grabbing strangers in the street and yelling at them that adam curtis (= The Century of the Self (2002); The Mayfair Set (1999), The Living Dead (1996) and Pandora’s Box (1992)) is the BEST THI[…]

FORTY FILMS
A List Of Films from 2003 How to write about what I thought were the best forty films of last year. No, scratch that, why am I writing about the forty best films of last year? The simplest answer of course would be that I did it last yea[…]

Sick man of Europe So a record 1.8 digiviewers tuned into Little Britain last night? A show incorporating:
– I’m Alan Partridge-style excessive taped laughter,
– Tired-sounding old catchphrases and unmemorable new ones,
– Vomi[…]

Xanadu redux — about a month and a half back I reported on rewatching said Olivia Newton John film for the first time in a long while and complaining about it. I still complain but last night catching it at a revival theater with a slew of fri[…]

WATCH WITH MOTHER: Rolf on Art (Turner)
mark s: the best part is his undisguised delight at his own gift rolf (sitting back to look at tricky little bit of own handiwork): marvellous, look at that! mum s: *chuckles* mark s cuts viewing appointment s[…]

Sunday Evening Television – Midsummer Murders
MM is now so synonymous with Sunday evenings it’s difficult to say which came first. It’s set in a part of England bereft of the dangers of multi-culturalism, where odd people are rechri[…]

A Starbuck on every corner: Galactica revisited
It’s all gone horribly wrong.
Having spent the end of last week watching Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-series, I was ready to savage both the show and the continuation of Hollywood’s misgui[…]

Music as Wallpaper
I was watching Changing Rooms last night and heard ‘Winter Wooksie’ by Belle and Sebastian as background to Lawrence cutting out flowers. It felt right.
Given that this was coming to us from Chorleywood, Britain’s[…]

WATCH WITH MOTHER : Heartbeat
mark s: heartbeat is just last of the summer wine except not funny – which means (tails off glumly) mum s: it’s not been any good since nick berry left *long pause, no canned laughter* mark s: do you always […]