Category: media

The people at CAP Alert have a bit of a problem with The Passion of the Christ. On one hand it’s exactly the the sort of film that they would like people to go and see. On the other hand, it’s such a violent film that it scores really badly on their “Wanton Violence/Crime” scale.… Continue reading CAPAlert

Ann Widdecombe. As an agony aunt? In the Guardian? That is wrong on so many levels.

Christopher Eccleston is to be the new Doctor Who. I think that’s a good choice. He’s a great actor and I like the way that the choice completely side-steps all of the more obvious candidates whose names have been mentioned before like Eddie Izzard, Alan Davies and Anthony Head. This sounds like it’s going to… Continue reading Diddly Dum Diddly Dum

I was going to link to a story in today’s Guardian where they pointed out the fact that Zoo Weekly‘s web site seems to be invisible to Google for some reason (currently this site is still the top result for “Zoo Weekly“) but when searching for the article on their site I came up against… Continue reading Media Guardian

Looks like I’m part of a named demographic. According to The Guardian I’m “50 quid guy”. On a hot day at County Hall in London, [David] Hepworth stood up and gave Britain’s record-company bosses a lecture about their own customers, concentrating on “the 50-quid guy”, a term he had picked up from friends in retail.… Continue reading Fifty Quid Guy

The Return of the King was, of course, a very good film. But was it really that good? Be honest. Was it really the best film of last year in eleven separate categories? And can you even remember the song that it won an Oscar for? I know I can’t. It’s hard to see this… Continue reading Oscar Overkill

Yesterday I got a couple of comments from Zoo Weekly fans who objected to my previous entry about their sad little comic. I wondered how they’d found me, but it turns out that a google search for Zoo Weekly lists my page first – before even the official web page. Which turns out to be… Continue reading More Zoo Weekly

I’m stunned. You have to watch this. http://blugg.com/stuff/foxs_view_of_the_bbc_player.htm The transcript is here. Update: I’ve just been shown a link to John Gibson’s reply to the large number of complaints he got about this piece (thanks to rozallin for the link).

I seems that WB have announced that they are cancelling Angel at the end of this season. To be honest I can’t say I’m that bothered. From what I’ve seen of season 5 on Sky, the “big changes” to the show don’t seem to be working at all. But there are, of course, a huge… Continue reading Angel Cancelled

I’m amazed by the amount of uproar in the US over Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake’s little escapade at the Superbowl. It’s a real indication of the difference in attitude between the US and the UK. Over there they’re having all sorts of inquiries into how such “obscene” material could appear on prime time TV.… Continue reading Janet Jackson’s Boob