Category: Television
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Damn Mr Neil Buchanan and his wretched Art Attack program with its attractive and "easy to make" models of tropical islands and fantasy castles and diaries with pictures of parrots of them. I’ve had to buy your book and subscribe to the Disney Channel and even try to make the model of a tropical island…
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I was half-watching a few minutes of a quiz show on ABC Asia-Pacific this week, and one of the categories was "English Queens". The question was "which of the following tracks was not on Yellow Brick Road? Candle in the Wind, Bennie & the Jets and Daniel". Hmmm…
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Richard Branson’s Quest for the Best is quite the strangest thing I’ve watched on TV since, er, well, whenever I last watched a light entertainment show on TVB Jade. The idea is that a group of people are competing for a job. Richard Branson’s job as President of Virgin. Well, if you believe that, you’ll…
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Apparently Fumier is a fan of the light entertainment show on TVB Jade on Sunday nights (sorry, I don’t know its name). The most bizarre segment is some sort of quiz, wherein the penalty for a wrong answer is that your chair is sent flying backwards, a folding umbrella is thrown at you, and then…
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This week the BBC announced that Ricky Gervais is making a new series that will be broadcast later this year. However, there is some concern that expectations are so high after The Office that people are bound to be disappointed. So what have the BBC done? From The Guardian: The new Ricky Gervais series is…
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I am trying to resist the temptation to write about ‘The Apprentice’, but I did enjoy this week’s episode so I’ll indulge myself. This week Trump actually did something that appeared to be spontaneous and also made sense, which must be a first. Many is the time when I’ve sat there thinking that he should…
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Since it started broadcasting in the UK 23 years ago, Channel Four has shown "The Snowman" every Christmas Day. I remember Jeremy Isaacs saying that as long as he was controller of Channel Four it would be guaranteed a place in the schedule, and in fact it has long outlasted his involvement with the channel.…
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Sorry, I’m banging on about The Apprentice again. I’ll keep it brief. Last week, Trump fired Bradford for messing with the stoopid immunity rule. This week it got worse – he fired Stacie for being way too weird and upsetting her fellow contestants (sorry, team members). We can’t have that, he said in his best…
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In The Apprentice, Donald Trump fired Bradford for daring to discard the precious immunity he had been awarded.
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BBC Prime is finally going to be available in Hong Kong next month. The bad news is that it is initially going to air on PCCW’s Now Broadband TV (which I no longer have), and they are threatening to censor the programmes for the Asian market (this was in the Sunday Morning Post, so I…
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