Category: Television
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The Apprentice is back, and it’s as daft as ever. We are told that one million people applied to be on the show, and they have selected only the best and brightest. Well, you could have fooled me. This time the teams were created by the random device of Trump choosing two Project Managers and…
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During the 1998 World Cup there was blanket coverage on the terrestrial channels in Hong Kong, with several games shown live on all four channels. ATV World had the BBC commentary, and TVB had the international commentary, whilst there was Cantonese on Home & Jade. I never understood quite why they needed to do that…
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How can it be that newspapers so often get the basic facts of a story wrong? A couple of weeks ago, computer journalist Guy Kewney was asked to appear on BBC News 24 (er, it’s a 24 hour news channel from the BBC). Unfortunately someone else appeared on screen instead, and newspapers reported that the…
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On Sky News tonight they seem to have replaced the news bulletins with wall-to-wall coverage of a rich old woman walking around Windsor and being given flowers. Apparently she got 20,000 birthday cards and 17,000 emails (unfortunately 16,999 of them were actually offers of V/I/A/G/R/A from the likes of Osvaldo Blackmon and Mireria Goggin). What…
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The fourth series of The Apprentice has been notable for the number of times that Donald Trump has broken the rules, so it was not really a surprise that he considered hiring two people. It had been obvious for a long time that he was going to choose Randal unless he did something really stupid,…
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Week 11 of your 13-week job interview, and what is the point of Carolyn? The previous week she so unsettled Felisha (by telling she was rubbish) that it made her determined to be the PM whilst simultaneously destroying her self-confidence. This made for entertaining viewing, starting from the initial discussion in which Felisha couldn’t even…
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I have to admit that I did briefly believe that it was possible that Essex "barrow bay" Dave West really was going to open a private members’ club for the super rich (as he claimed). However after a few minutes of "Trouble at the Top" (a BBC series being shown on Monday nights on ATV…
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I love nonsense like this. Is China really going to ban the Teletubbies? It seems unlikely. Have I mentioned that the red one talks Cantonese? She says things like ‘Fi-Di, Fi-Di’ (hurry up) and, Yaht, Yih, Sahm (1,2,3). And you thought it was just nonsense…
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Some tasks on The Apprentice just scream out ‘product placement’. It’s almost as if the producers are willing to organize any old task as long as it suits their sponsors. Hence we had the weirdest task so far – the teams were asked to select an unsigned singer, write a song with him and then…
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I think we have this every year. TVB wants to show The Oscars live, but the rules say that TVB Pearl has to show educational programs from 12 noon, just as the big awards are being handed out on in Los Angeles. This year TVB has been making a big fuss because Ang Lee might…
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