Category Archives: TV

ITV Censorship

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The film Uncle Buck is on and I just happened to glance at it. It’s a great film and I’ve seen it many times.
When Buck goes to the school there is a scene with his niece Maisie. She is sat in the classroom and when she answers a question the young male teacher brandishes a ruler and says “Blasphemer“. They cut it. Why?
That means they put that word on the same level as ‘Fuck’. On the same level as nudity, sex.
But isn’t the word ‘Blasphemer’ something that applies to all religions? So a Muslim could use it as readily as a Catholic? So it is a multi-religion word, a multi-religion concept…….. except when it is used in a family film and the word is being applied to the Christian god. In such a case it requires censorship. Bizarre. Pathetic. And indicative of a terrified corporation who dare not offend anyone. Except Christians.

Russell Brand’s TC show does badly. Shame.

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Article on the BBC about his new show opening badly

It was beaten by almost all its main multi-channel rivals
Why is this a surprise?

The programme had been heavily-trailed on both TV and with a poster campaign.
Positively sickening it was.

Brand had been on the crest of a wave after successfully presenting part of the Big Brother coverage.
‘successfully’ ? Bollocks.

He received glowing good reviews for his stand-up comedy show
As in “Excellent – this crap isn’t on the TV!”

…was voted most stylish man by men’s magazine GQ.
Like people will tune in to see him because of that?

Russell Brand is one of the most exciting talents on British TV
Even bigger bollocks. The guy is a grade A twat. What he needs is a good slapping.

Big Brother. Nikki

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The entry here where I said she should be shot is #1 (Nikki. Big Brother) or #3 (Big Brother. Nikki) on Google which explains the recent number of visits. Not having seen much of the show due to it being full of muppets tonight I watched the bit where she was told she was leaving and then her interview. J and P said she was a wonderful person. And a very very funny person too. Hmm…
I’m not convinced she is the full ticket. There’s nothing wrong with that of course and I’m sure she’s a nice person (when warm, rested and calm) but some of the antics….. if they were for real – and they sure as hell looked it – then it’s just another nail in the coffin of BB surely? Anyone remember the first BB that Craig ‘the incredible sleeping man’ won? It was a gameshow to them. It was fun, interesting and challenging (because they had real challenges – the unicycle, the 100 faces) but now the producers seem to be wanting to challenge Fraggle Rock for… uniqueness.

Why pick someone you know will throw tantrums, then poke them and prod them to have those tantrums and then try to defend the show and it’s values? It’s less about the human condition than voyeurism of the worst kind.

There was something she said though while lying by the pool. It was like “I was born to have money, I just don’t have any”. I hope she gets more than her fair share from the media :)

Golden what?

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BB was on in the background (honest!) and the girl with the stupid boyfriend gets into the house. She's the Golden Girl. BB says that she must sleep in the Golden bedroom, wear Golden shoes and must have Golden showers. Urolagnia on Big Bro? They must be taking the p*** ;)

BBC digging?

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Newsnight piece on Net neutrality / Bram Cohen / Bit torrent. In the middle of that is this:

TO HEAR BRAM COHEN INTERVIEWED DIGG THIS ARTICLE

and that’s a Digg link. Ignore the fact that at the top right of that page are two yellow download buttons. (Neither of which say what they actually DO – it’s assumed that people will know…)
If you get to Digg the author of the BBC piece is there (the digger?) and clicking his name shows 3 other BBC stories that he has dugg.

  1. Why is the BBC into this Digg thing?
  2. Do they actually know? Does it matter?
  3. Isn’t it a bit off to link with a ‘Hear the interview’ when there are already two perfectly decent links on the originating page? That would seem to be duping people especially when they get to the Digg page and see this:

    For extra audio of the interview, BBC Newsnight podcast dated 26 May at: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=136697142&s=143444

    so they cannot hear it at all unless they have iTunes in which case they will know what the yellow Podcast button on the originating page was.

Why is this Adam Livingstone using the BBC as a prop to his … ‘career’ ?
I feel a complaint coming on…

BBC and a raft

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Came across a link at the BBC for ‘hi-res film downloads’ which seemed rather neat. Clicking around finds that I need IE to get it, WMP to play it, a ‘small download’ to get it too and just to be sure I won’t burst my HD it’ll delete the programs for me. How considerate! Keep reading …. it’s a download using a program called Kontiki. If you google ‘Kontiki DRM’ you will get “Gamespot’s “Download Manager” Hides Spyware, DRM” as #1. How reassuring! Reading around some more, it seems Sky have already tried this and effectively used paying customers bandwidth as a distribution mechanism – and some will not have known. How economic! And just to put the tin lid on it, if you want to get rid of the software, the BBC accept no responsibility at all if the nukes your computer even though they say you must have it to get the films. How …
So, would I like to download these short films? Yes. Will I? Not a chance. Will I keep an eye on the right places for a way to strip Kontiki’s DRM from these films? Hell yes. And would I then tell anyone about it? You can bet on it.

BB

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Bottom of the Barrel?
What a bunch of IQ-free goons this lot are .. maybe it’ll be compelling viewing in ‘car crash’ type of way? Or maybe it’ll just be total garbage.
Again.