Fazzinchi

Everyone seems to be having their say over Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, so I figure I’ll hop on board. It’s a tangled web and no mistake but here’s the bottom line: it’s great, big, stinking mess over absolutely nothing. Almost everything I’ve read and seen has been band-wagon jumping of the highest order, when in reality it is a very simple situation. They overstepped the mark of good taste and the opportunity to mitigate (more…)

Spent the evening yesterday watching “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” primarily as the Other Viewer and mine’s tribute to the recently deceased Paul Newman but partly because we just needed a movie to which we could curl up, drink a few beers and unwind after a busy week. The gentler pace of those of old movies never fails to impress me…. Butch and Sundance riding over the plains in a sweeping shot that lasts (more…)

Okay, so this is nothing to do with television at all but it’s my blog and I’ll do what I like with it (and if you get to the end you may just learn something).

I was listening to BBC Radio 5Live this morning, when this story was told, in which a judge in New Zealand made a nine-year-old child a ward of court, so that her name could be changed to something more reasonable than the one that her parents thought it appropriate to give her.  Her name: Talulah Does The Hula From Hawaii. (more…)

There are a number of things that I should’ve written about already but haven’t…

1. Discuss the awfulness that is Bonekickers
2. Advocate the merits or otherwise of latest Big Brother shenanigans
3. Give you a mid-year report on the final series of Battlestar Galactica
4. Marvel at the continued wonder of Gregory House and explain why Hugh Laurie should be the Eleventh Doctor
5. Write a book review (oh yes) of The End of Mr Y
6. An update on our sporting summer

Perhaps they will appear here shortly.

So, what have you been watching?

From Rob’s The Medium is Not Enough Blog, a meme…

“What are your favourite three episodes of nu-Who and why?”

In no particular order, the list has to include… Dalek. A clever re-introduction of a classic enemy: chained, seemingly helpless and alone. It included Time War revelations (when they were still a bit of a thrill), some (more…)

It never fails to amaze me how people get affronted by the thought of watching Big Brother, let alone enjoying it.  I have had numerous conversations over the course of the last few weeks, since BB9’s arrival on the airwaves, with friends, family and collegues during which the discussions have often turned to television.  Whenever I ask if they’re watching Big Brother I get looks of bewilderment and contempt like my (more…)