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Charlie Brooker and the Spooky Coincidence

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

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

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

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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Stealing in the name of the Time Lord

Another series of Doctor Who ends, and you gotta admire the boy Davies’s chutzpah. It’s great but he seems to have nicked half of it from Star Wars, and the other half from the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. As … Continue reading

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