I’d do anything
I fell for this hook line and sinker with the first episode I’ve watched - this one. I love it. All. The febrile speculation about ‘The Nancys’. The overacting. The Andrew Lloyd Webbering. The pompous, shouty judging. To say nothing - or not enough - of Barry Humphries. [...]
Wild: Otters
Ten lovely minutes. Cameraman father and son go otter filming on the Isle of Skye. My favourite bit is the Mouse Ferrari Experiment. Apart from the otters of course.
Later Live
Ah. BBC2 again. I’m glad this has gone live. Jools Holland always felt like the most live of un-live things on telly, but it really changes things - more than I’d have thought. I haven’t had such a frisson from the box for anything (other than The Wire, obviously) for ages, and [...]
Super Rich: The Greed Game
Finally I can stop pretending to know what ’sub prime’ means by using it for things that are a bit pony, and understand it properly instead. Sort of. This is very good at explaining the whole Northern Rock blah as simply as is possible for financial illiterates like me. Thankfully also, Robert Peston follows [...]
A Funny Tern
Lately I’ve noticed a weird TV habit I’m developing. Prime time Friday night BBC2. And it’s atypical of me, which is probably why it’s the first thing I thought I’d put up here. For anyone who’s not of the UK, to put it in Sex & The City terms (for some [...]
