The London MCM Expo: Come get your geek on!
The London MCM Expo is held at London’s Excel Centre twice a year, rounding up the best of cult entertainment, video games and comics. Hoards of fans descend upon the exhibition halls to collect...
View ArticleThe Wire: Not fully “Wired” up
It seems that I am part of a very small group of people who share one opinion. This being that The Wire, despite its intense realism, is NOT “the best programme on TV”. The Wire has, undeniably, become...
View ArticleThe Jedward issue
So a travesty apparently occurred on Sunday night, depending on who you’re talking to the incident in question is either Manchester United loosing to Chelsea or the entity known as “Jedward” surviving...
View ArticleTeam Sting: Music Police
Finally, a pop star worthy of the name has come out and said what every sane person in this country has been thinking for years: X Factor sucks. Ok, I may be horribly misquoting Sting there. So here’s...
View ArticleMusic Box
The birth of the music TV. Show can be dated as far back as Ready Steady Go, which famously featured an edition consisting entirely of Motown artists perhaps the first time black artists were welcomed...
View ArticleThe decade’s TV: 2000-2004
I don’t like using the word “Noughties”. There’s something I find deeply unsettling about it. Maybe it’s the vague yet deeply-ingrained snobbery I inevitably feel towards buzzwords (which is why I...
View ArticleKnow your enemy…
It’s that time of year again. The weather outside is most certainly frightful, advertisements sugary enough to induce diabetic coma’s plague our airwaves and Oxford Street is once again overrun with...
View ArticleBye Jack: The final tick for 24
The ending has come; Jack will no longer be frantically running around, defying hunger or the calls of nature. We have watched Mr Bauer experience pleasure and pain (usually the latter) yet save the...
View ArticleThe Expendables: They’re Back
The Expendables was never going to be an artistic masterpiece (except possibly in the ironic sense) and inevitably some will have a field day tearing its metaphorical limbs apart. As someone who spent...
View Article10 O’Clock Live
Last night saw the launch of Channel 4’s new satire show, 10 O’Clock Live, a programme which saw one of the best stand up comedian’s in the UK (Jimmy Carr) two of the best respected satirical writers...
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