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Sport Relief

Jumbo — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0000

Sport Relief is a bag of self-aggrandising shit if ever I saw one. The BBC invents a charity event, then proceeds to report its existence everywhere, and even people who have nothing to do with sport whatsoever start bandwaggoning the whole thing for all it is worth. Well Done. You should all be knighted – [...]

Will & Grace

Jumbo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:26:32 +0000

Will & Grace has two qualities that none of us look for in a comedy: it’s turgid and unfunny. For some reason, team written American comedy is still huge, whether the producers are still churning it out or television schedulers around the world are still showing endless repeats in back-to-back episodes, we simply cannot get [...]

Jeremy Kyle

Jumbo — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:10:25 +0000

Jeremy Kyle, and his TV show of the same name, have been out of these pages for far too long. For years, the unemployed and unwashed of Great Britain had the dubious pleasure of witnessing every social ill that faced the UK played out in the glorious technicolour of the Trisha show. Occasionally, we would [...]

Deal or No Deal

Jumbo — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:37:43 +0000

Having been resoundingly lambasted for several of my recent posts, I’d like to make it clear that I actually like Deal or No Deal. As the title of this website suggests, though, even the best things in life can be shit. Deal or No Deal certainly has some shitty aspects. Infuriating, even. I’m talking, here, [...]

Derren Brown and the Big Con – sorry System

AngryOldWoman — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:01:42 +0000

Last night we watched Derren Brown, sois-disant Mentalist (mental might be the word) or illusionist, who had trailed his Channel 4 show, The System, as a foolproof way of beating the bookmakers. He purported to show a single mother, whom he had e-mailed anonymously with five horse racing winners in a row, then was to [...]

Reality TV – “I’m a Celebrity, get me out of here” in particular.

wjms — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:44:42 +0000

I think the trade descriptions department needs to be activated for this piece of televisual garbage. The latest UK installment has just started, and even without having watched any of it, it has already earned a mention on this erudite website. I have certain problems with Reality TV shows, but using viewer discretion, I am [...]

Middlesbrough

badgerclaw — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:53:53 +0000

Recently the good old Middlesbrough has been labelled as the worst place to live in Britain, with Edinburgh top of the poll. I work in Middlesbrough and was most amused to see this rant by good old Jeff Stelling, he backs up our office sentiment entirely!

Pokemon, manga, anime and Akira

Bindi — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:54:16 +0000

The artistry and pure ingenuity of these animations is admirable -but why are they so strange? Nothing has ever quite disturbed me as watching these cartoons. Maybe it was just poor translation or maybe they really were as bizarre as the script suggested. Since Pokemon became so popular, people started to watch other Japanese manga [...]

Dida of AC Milan

Jumbo — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:06:53 +0000

I love football and I’m a keeper, so I generally stick up for the man between the posts. However, what Dida of AC Milan did in their UEFA Champions League match against Celtic yesterday places him firmly in the Shitopedia forever. I’m not putting him in for the mistake that led to Celtic winning the [...]

David Letterman

Jumbo — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:07:01 +0000

My word, how this man still has a TV show is quite beyond me! I watched the David Letterman show the other day when I couldn’t sleep. It scared me so much I was nearly up all night. The jokes he tells are bad enough, but what nearly made me lose a night’s sleep was [...]

Adverts During Sport

Jumbo — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:35:15 +0000

This is one thing which irritates me more than any other – advertisements during TV coverage of sport. It is really annoying how the commercial channels which show sport – any sport – decide to maximise their advertising revenue by showing adverts while the game is in progress. The main trouble is not just that [...]

Jamie Oliver

Jumbo — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:18:46 +0000

Some things in life rub us up the wrong way. Some things really grate at us, for no apparent reason. Then there is Jamie Oliver. Jamie Oliver’s constant attempts to be a ‘cheeky chappie’ would be irritating, but forgivable, were it not for the fact that I feel seasick, because his cameraman is waving his [...]

The Not O’Clock News

AngryOldWoman — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:37:25 +0000

After my complaints of yesterday (see Telly Vision), this morning’s offerings from the great and mighty BBC Breakfast, a “news” programme were the following: 1. Picture of “reporter” still living it up in Playa de Luz, Portugal, outside police station yet again telling us there was nothing to tell us. 2. Interview with McCanns’ new [...]

TV ‘News’ Stories From YouTube

Jumbo — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:24:51 +0000

The internet is fast overtaking the television as the primary source of information for many people. Apparently, in the 16-25 age group, people are now spending more hours online than they do watching television. But this does not stop the TV stations from stealing their ‘news’ from YouTube (and promoting that website in the process!). [...]

Telly Visions

AngryOldWoman — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:33:54 +0000

Why on earth does every news broadcast use meaningless outside broadcast shots to fill up space? For example, any crime story on the BBC has to have a reporter – or better call them commentator, for they don’t report – outside Scotland Yard (New Scotland Yard for overseas readers). There, the triangular metal signpost turns [...]

ITV Play

Jumbo — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:45:27 +0000

Host: “Complete this sentence: ‘Puff the Magic ____’ – I’ll give you a clue, the word begins with a ‘D’ and ends with ‘ragon’. If you know the answer, call the number at the bottom of this screen. All calls will cost £1 per minute, and there is a good chance you won’t get through, [...]