Category Archives: TV

Flawless logic

Posted on January 12, 2008 by blogmywiki

My eldest son, 8, had picked up a bit on the TV show Smart being pulled off CBBC and the Mark Speight case and asked me about it – I said vague things about him just being in the wrong … Continue reading →

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Charlie Brooker and the Spooky Coincidence

Posted on December 30, 2007 by blogmywiki

I got Dawn of the Dumb, Charlie Brooker’s collection of Guardian columns for Christmas, and I’ve been chuckling my way through it since the big day. This despite the fact that I’m clearly the sort of person Mr Brooker would … Continue reading →

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Exclusive

Posted on October 23, 2007 by blogmywiki

Apparently – according to a trailer – kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston is talking exclusively to the BBC’s Panorama programme. This truly is a scoop of award-winning proportions. I’d have expected the BBC journalist Alan Johnston to have gone with … Continue reading →

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Funny man

Posted on September 30, 2007 by blogmywiki

Aside from a tiny clip from the great long-lost Granada sketch show Alfresco, last night’s Stephen Fry love-in had me laughing myself stupid over this sketch dialogue: A: I’m just wound up about the divorce. I suppose I did go … Continue reading →

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Time travel makes you queasy

Posted on July 22, 2007 by blogmywiki

Further to my pathetic joke “Is ITV 2+1 the same as ITV3?”… we were just watching ITV 2+1 and the announcer said “…and if you missed this programme, it’s just starting now on ITV 2+1″. You’re twisting my melon, man. … Continue reading →

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