I was watching Bruce Parry's Tribe programme on BBC2 last night and it was about the Penan people in Malaysia and their plight with losing their living environment to the local loggers. it is good to see that some action is happening. You could see the desperation on the faces of the people who [...]
Archive for the ‘TV/Radio’ Category
June 28th, 2007 - 1:47 pm § in TV/Radio
Chill – DAB station
I just got a new Onkyo 515 stereo from Currys . It had a excellent review in What Hi-Fi and also the Currys web site had a £5 discount, but you can still pick it up in-store. On testing it, it all sounded pretty good. Well, better that the big portable thing that was being [...][...]
May 19th, 2007 - 8:58 am § in TV/Radio
Family Guy
With my new bargain PVR thing I have been able to record episodes of the Family Guy late on BBC3. It is very funny and very adult. Sort of takes The Simpson to the next level.[...]
April 21st, 2007 - 8:13 pm § in TV/Radio
No more West End musical TV shows, please!
Arrgh! This Grease thing, this cost of many colours thing, what a load of beau-laxs! Too much and too often these shows come around with mediocre talent there just to make up the numbers and make up the spectacle in the sense that they are just cannon fodder for our laughter. [...]
April 2nd, 2007 - 8:28 pm § in TV/Radio
Louis Theroux and the family from hell
Louis Theroux did a programme about the most hated family in the USA. BBC web page Those Westboro Baptist Church bunch are a zany bunch to say the least. Picketing funerals of dead soldiers coming back from Iraq is one thing, but to picket a Swedish store, for being Swedish is another! [...]
March 17th, 2007 - 11:47 am § in TV/Radio
Well done to Comic Relief
Comic Relief raised more than £40m from this year's fundraising. One of the funniest moments was the Peter Kay video with The Proclaimers and also when Tony Blair was "not bovvered" about meeting Catherine Tate [...]
January 3rd, 2007 - 9:34 pm § in TV/Radio
Celebrity Big Brother
Looks to be an interesting Big Brother show this year I thought everyone was alright apart from that nobba from that rock band . 1st out! [...]
December 10th, 2006 - 9:13 pm § in TV/Radio
Planet Earth, simply amazing
I just have to say that the footage, week on week, on the BBC series of Planet Earth is simply amazing. The sheer clarity of it all and the closeness of it all makes you marvel at how the camera people were able to skillfully catpure it all, and amongst danger as well. Kudos to [...][...]
November 14th, 2006 - 9:03 pm § in TV/Radio
Heston Blumenthal on BBC2, Tuesday 8pm
Heston Blumenthal: In search of Perfection brings his scientific approach to cooking to a new series on BBC2. He is only occasionally seen on TV but this has been increasing to his own series. This is sure to make fantasic viewing. This is like a lecture on good food. [...]
October 7th, 2006 - 9:51 pm § in TV/Radio
Bruno (aka Borat) and Spring Break dudes
This is so, so funny, just cracks me up! The funniest bit is at the end. Just watch the guy's reaction when all is revealed. Borat/Bruno on Daytona Beach It is not Borat but rather his Bruno alter-ego that is in front of the camera. [...]