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Flickers From Its Glassy Eye: Thoughts on Television
Category Archives: Television & Film
Show guides, reviews, reports, and general comments concerning the big and small screen.
My Christmas TV Diary – (2012/2013)
Contents:
- Introduction
- Take That: Progress Live
- Heston’s Fantastical Christmas
- BBC Breakfast
- Sunday Brunch
- Rod Stewart’s Christmas
Regional News
As I’ve gotten older, more cynical and altogether more misanthropic I find myself increasingly surprised by how much of a soft spot I have for regional news programming. It’s as if my understanding for what’s terrible is somehow unaffected by smiley small-town blandness and aimless reports about vandalised road signs and vegetables that look like people.
Halloween Movie & TV Marathon 2012
Halloween has really snuck up on me this year and so I’m staying in and making my way through a stack of films and horribly dated TV programmes. I’m not even going to dress up; I’m just going to sit here drinking Co-operative’s “red flavour” wine and eating some seasonal branded Jaffa Cake bars, which are all green and have cobwebs on the packaging.
The Olympics on Television
Below is an article that I wrote a week before the 2012 Olympics (the greatest show on earth, amirite!?). I submitted it for the Ideas Tap magazine and, quite understandably, it was rejected. My thoughts on the Olympics, I found out the following week, were not shared by the vast majority of the general public, who lapped the McDonald’s-sponsored bullshit right up. Continue reading