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21 Macrolog entries tagged with ‘tv’
Culturewipe 2012 Mon 31 Dec 2012
I meant to do something like this for last year — to summarise my choice cuts from the previous 12 months of media consumption — but time got away from me in the end, and anyway, who wants to read...
Weeknotes #533-550 Thu 29 Mar 2012
The first quarter of the year’s almost done and there’s so much I haven’t written here. I’m well overdue a catch-up, I know. This one may be brief, but it’s better than nothing. The highlights: Hitting the four stone mark...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 8 Sun 28 Aug 2011
The penultimate link dump. This selection comes from the first half of 2007, a year when I didn’t really blog at all. I regret that. Anyway, enjoy: Crappy Sound Forever! / David Byrne on how recording technology changed the way...
Weeknotes #510-516 Tue 23 Aug 2011 | 0 Comments
Thanks to Twitter for helping me remember the following: 4/7 — I find a hole torn in the back of favorite plaid shirt. Annoyed. Proper, durable (non-fashiony) plaid shirts are hard to come by round these parts. Later in the...
Weeknotes #470 Sun 07 Nov 2010
Monday/Tuesday — I wake up feeling rotten on Monday. Time to take a sick day. (The fact that it’s officially the first day of winter is just a coincidence.) I worry for a while about catching up at the end...
Weeknotes #466 Mon 11 Oct 2010
Monday — An unremarkable day, other than my dismay at the golf overrunning so I miss University Challenge. Nobody makes me miss University Challenge and gets away with it! Okay, they do get away with it, but I’m certainly not...
Weeknotes #462 Sun 12 Sep 2010
Monday — Wet walk to work this morning. Parnell Street stinks of wet dog. Then the sky gets darker and the rain gets harder and my enthusiasm goes out the window. Blah. At least I survive the walk home without...
Lazyweb Request: A Social Network for TV Tue 13 Apr 2010 | 0 Comments
I’ve been thinking a lot about television recently — more so since we got our first PVR last weekend. I hadn’t felt I was missing out in not having one before (apart from the programme clash conundrum); I’d always been...
House Porn Sun 21 Sep 2003 | 4 Comments
Whilst reading the MediaGuardian supplement on Monday afternoon I was shocked to discover that the new head of Channel 4 is planning to cancel one of my favourite shows, Fifteen to One. For those of you who are unaware, Fifteen...
Late Night TV Blues Wed 25 Jun 2003
Last night I set the video to tape Cry, The Beloved Country on Channel 4. But that's not quite what I found on my tape this afternoon... I had woken up at some point during the night, whilst the video...
Graham Norton Must Die! Fri 20 Jun 2003
If there’s one person that I’m simply sick of seeing on my TV night after night, it has to be Graham Norton. I actually used to enjoy his original show, So Graham Norton, back in the day; at the time...
Simpsons = Shite Sun 18 Aug 2002
Just saw bits and pieces of a new episode of The Simpsons on Sky. It was shite. Come on, Homer bouncing down the street on a ladder? The writers must have been high when they came up with that,...
Show Me the Funny Wed 01 May 2002
I hate to say it, but it's about time. There just isn't enough funny to make The Simpsons season as long as it is. But why not just up the quality control and make the series shorter? And how...
What Is It? Fri 12 Apr 2002
I've been wracking my brain trying to think of this all night, but I'm getting nowhere... back in the 80's, on The Children's Channel (back when they showed Voltron and Roustabout and well before they shortened the name to...
Britain Does Good Television Sun 03 Mar 2002
These shenanigans are just more proof that if you want good television, you have to go to Britain to get it. American television is a solely commerical enterprise; it has to pander to the lowest common denominator in this...
Haven't I Seen This Before? Sat 02 Mar 2002
If you're a fan of The Simpsons, does anything about this episode strike you as familiar? .... Just think a few series back, and substitute alcohol for sugar....
Futurama Not As Good As Everyone Thinks Shocker Tue 19 Feb 2002
Talk about over-reacting. It appears that the Fox Network has decided not to commission further series of Futurama. To be honest I can't really blame them as, with all cult shows, it has a niche audience of hardcore fans...
Plagiarism is Bad. Plagiarising Yourself is Worse. Sun 10 Feb 2002
The new episode of The Simpsons tonight was shit. I mean, the whole corporate religion thing has been done before (methinks the scriptwriters have been listening to Jello Biafra spoken word albums, and then dumbing them down for public...
Real Ads of Genius Mon 04 Feb 2002
Last night, while watching the Superbowl, Sky showed some of the Budweiser Real Men of Genius commercials, which I have to say are the best adverts they've ever commissioned. Particularly the pro wrestling costume designer. They're so good, I...
Rupert Murdoch is Ripping Me Off Sat 12 Jan 2002
Sky aren't getting another red cent out of me. I suppose one could say that we've had a bit of a cushy number over here, getting every WWF pay-per-view on Sky since 1991 without having to pay an extortionate...
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