Remember that time SARS killed loads of people far away, and was definitely going to come over here and turn London into the start of 28 Days Later (the bit with the deserted streets, not the zombie apocalypse afterwards.) The papers couldn’t get enough of it. SARS was going to take over the world...
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Archive for April, 2009
Pigs *might* Fly
Mayfair with a hotel? That’ll be… hey, stop hitting me.
Sunday afternoon was specifically designed for you to sit miserably in your house watching rain pissing down the windows. The shops shut early, so you have to collect all your supplies to get through the evening, or spend hours driving round looking for a petrol station that sells matches. TV stations, knowing that there’s...
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The Impossible Dream
Babies are a bit shit, what with the crying, peeing and bawling all day. They can’t even walk or talk. In fact, they’re so stupid that people (whoever they are) have a saying that some things are so easy even a baby could do it. But there’s one thing that babies can do that...
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Television Review: Beat The Star
Beat the Star, not just Chris Brown’s favourite pass-time, but also a ridiculous game-show from ITV. Think of it as half-celebrity Krypton Factor. Not necessarily the Z-list celebrities that usually show up on anything with a ‘Celebrity’ twist, but one contestant is a celebrity, and the other… less so. Tonight we meet a bloke...
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Television Review: Red Dwarf: Back to Earth
1989 was a simpler time, a world away. Yugoslavia won Eurovision, the other George Bush took office and Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj announced the establishment of Mongolia’s democratic movement. Sci-fi nerds across the country put their dragons back into dungeons and gathered round their primitive 1980s television sets to watch space sit-com, Red Dwarf. Over the...
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This is the worst video game I’ve ever played
This is the worst video game I’ve ever played. This is World Snooker Championship 2007. I’ve taken the box off the shelf so I type the name exactly right, and it’s made me angry just looking at it. Ronnie O’Sullivan is on the cover looking at you, saying, “what, you can’t even get a...
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A women only office, what could go wrong?
A lady, sick of being in a male dominated TV production environment, sets up her own female only company. Let’s see how that went down. …employees I had headhunted to achieve my utopian dream – a female- only company with happy, harmonious workers benefiting from an absence of men. Another time, when two members...
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TV Review: Ten Years Younger: The Challenge
“Age ain’t nothing but a number,” sang the grammatical illiterate Aaliyah. And with that double negative, she agreed with the production team behind Ten Years Younger: The Challenge. See, age is more than a number, it’s a bloody great stick that can be used to beat a drab, middle-aged lady into agreeing to have...
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Would you like to buy our, er, whatever it is?
Received this e-mail, and I’m still not sure what (if anything) they’re trying to sell / give / take from me: The very essence of what we think of as the web is changing at a rapid pace. The battle for business has never been fiercer and today’s consumers expect to be engaged, as...
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