Anyone can be charmed by slick presentation. Unfortunately, I’ve been beguiled by E4′s Made in Chelsea. Normally I’d be enjoying how much I can spoil the show for other people by explaining how it can’t possibly be real, but with this show I’m not even trying to taint its perfect complexion. Why? Because Made in… [Read more…]
April 1, 2011
Saturday night is date night and has been since, well, forever. TV knew this and for anyone who’d not found a partner for the evening, she deigned to give us the show “Blind Date”. Each week, three contestants were asked questions by a potential suitor, but to make it a proper blind date they were… [Read more…]
October 25, 2010
David Shields wants more people to write “books for people who find television too slow”. In an age that’s hungry for information, news and reality, traditional novels can’t keep up. I’m not convinced… but I like his angle on the world. What I think: Being a literary professor, Shields’ main interest is Fiction. And being… [Read more…]
October 22, 2010
Here’s something I made earlier: an unfinished article that I forgot about. I’ve tried to piece it together, but to complicate things it’s only resulted generating more ideas from a completely different perspective. TBH, I’ve really no idea what I was on about… What I wrote: Earlier this year David Shield published Reality Hunger: A… [Read more…]
May 20, 2010
15 years ago I was glued to “It’ll never work“. Along with wacky technology, this kids science show drove me mad trying to come up with the most useless inventions to win trips to Japan at the end of each series In hindsight it probably explains my urge to become an inventor at the age… [Read more…]
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