It’s Saturday night and I’m one of the 19 million watching the Britain’s Got Talent final. Having previously missed every second of this year’s BGT, I find the whole 150 minute spectacular an unpleasantly entertainment-free experience akin to cleansing one’s urethra with an icepick. The ‘talent’ seems never-ending. Pudding-bowl boy soprano Liam McNally sings a note perfect Danny Boy. Ant & Dec ask him how he slept [...]
June 7, 2010 | Posted in
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Creative dance tour-de-force Diversity inched out borderline sociopath Susan Boyle last night to snatch the Britain’s Got Talent crown from under the YouTube phenomenon’s florid nose & thunderous brow. Fair play, if La Boyle had nailed a fresh song rather than falling back on her Les Mis breakthrough things might have been different, but Diversity brought a third fresh routine onstage to demonstrate more genuine creativity than over half [...]
May 31, 2009 | Posted in
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How does a film about a serial killer set during Pinochet’s reign in Chile end up being a feel-good movie? I think it was that cheery Glaswegian Football Manager Alex Ferguson who coined the phrase that Football was the ‘Theatre of the Working Class’. Historically he may have been correct, but the present cost of a [...]
April 21, 2009 | Posted in
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Doctor Who was thrashed into second place on Easter Saturday, pulling in only 8.7 million viewers compared to the 11.4 million who watched Britain’s Got Talent. Does that sound unfair? Well I tell you what, it sounds like the 1970′s to me. It’s Saturday night and Doctor Who’s on BBC1 and New Faces is back on ITV. [...]
April 15, 2009 | Posted in
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