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Charlie Brooker 2014 Wipe was another great annual show, and this time the show ended with a spoof of Ian Dury and the Blockheads’ Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3 to all the problems with …
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Kirsty Duffy – where has she gone from The Wright Stuff?
Kirsty Duffy is the longest-serving “babe in the booth”, albeit not in a booth any more as the ‘booth’ is now part of the audience, and she’s been on the show since May 2009. The …
Continue readingRussell Brand vs Nigel Farage & everyone starts shouting (Question Time, 11.12.14)
Russell Brand made a number of points, Nigel Farage had his say and everyone in the audience kicked off and started shouting and even piling on Russell Brand! That was worth a watch on his …
Continue readingCarol Kirkwood’s “cows udders” Mammatus clouds (Breakfast, 11.12.14)
Carol Kirkwood was asked what her favourite clouds are, given her weather skills, and they’re mammatus clouds, which look like a cow’s udders! And then she mimmicked these! Check out the superb video below: Dom …
Continue readingKermode Uncut: The Hobbit – Breaking News
Kermode Uncut is one in an occasional series of vlogs, where film reviewer Mark Kermode talks about issues in the film world which irk him in some way. I love his film reviews on BBC …
Continue readingLJ Rich talks about Twitter and its popularity (BBC Breakfast, 10.12.14)
LJ Rich, BBC Click reporter, talkeds about Twitter, hashtags, selfies, retweets, and so on, on BBC Breakfast this morning. LJ also makes an important point during the second interview that if you’re constantly recording your …
Continue readingThe Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega – I love retro gaming, but…
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega is a Kickstarter-style attempt to resurrect the wonderful computer from the 1980s which gave me many a happy hour of gaming, the ZX Spectrum. However, while you can still buy …
Continue readingFrom Bedrooms to Billions – interview with Anthony and Nicola Caulfield (Breakfast, 30.11.14)
From Bedrooms to Billions is a new documentary from Anthony and Nicola Caulfield, about the videogames industry and how it boomed during the 1980s, and they appeared on BBC Breakfast to talk about it. I …
Continue reading“Forgive me I have to run for a train” – Sir David Omand (Channel 4 News, 20.11.14)
“Forgive me I have to run for a train” isn’t the sort of thing you hear often mid-interview on the news, but during a discussion about phone hacking, Sir David Omand, director of GCHQ from …
Continue readingShyama Perera – accidental sexism on BBC News Paper Review (BBC News, 15.11.14)
Shyama Perera is one of the BBC paper review commentators, and dropped a bit of a clanger tonight, but she is one of the better commentators in this slot, so they must keep her. Earlier …
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