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Keeping very much with the Christmas spirit, I decided to grab some well known TV catchphrases and give them a festive makeover. Alas the hashtag #tvcatchphrasesmadexmasy didn’t trend at all on Twitter where they were first transmitted, so clearly the idea only amused me. Hopefully someone else will find a Continue Reading

Webcomic Pants Are Overrated has given Calvin and Hobbes a re-birth of sorts by fast forwarding 26 years, and the results are nothing short of magical. I feel like I have met up again with an old, dear and greatly missed friend, and I am supremely happy. (Their website is Continue Reading

Chim-chiminey, chim-chiminey, chim-chim-chiree! Who doesn’t recognize this joyful toe-tapping tune? It is the melodic heartbeat of Bert the Cockney chimney sweep and jack-of-all-trade,s and his fellow denizens of the rooftops of Edwardian London as they whistle and trill their way through an exhausting and dirty job. But you would never Continue Reading

What would happen if overnight, or even instantly on air, all the presenters on all the vapid entertainment shows suddenly started saying what they really thought about the celebrities they report on day in, day out? Why, my friends, it already has (kind of) and this much needed phenomenon’s name Continue Reading

That may seem like an odd question but hear me out. Ever since Lt John Pike assured himself of almost instant viral infamy by pepper spraying peacefully protesting students at the University of California, he has been pilloried by Netizens who have gleefully ridiculed him for his controversial tactics. But Continue Reading

Zing! Pow! How can something so hilarously funny, with one liners I am going to have to memorise if my life is to be worth anything, be simultaneously so insightful, articulate and warm-hearted? I have no idea, but the team responsible for this gem, including the very talented Jane Espenson Continue Reading

I really wanted to like this show but I was also aware going into it that it could turn out to be cheesier than a convention of dairy farmers, because let’s face it, we’re not dealing with a HBO series’ premise here, and its forebear, while a warm and fuzzy standout Continue Reading

This show, partly from the hands of Steven Spielberg, but also from the very capable creative minds of Brannon Brag and Rene Echevarria (late of the re-incarnated and awesomely good, Battlestar Galactica), came with hype. Great generous lashings of commercial TV hype, which immediately made me fearful that I was Continue Reading

A brilliant rundown of Coldplay’s upcoming new album, which is being heralded as their best body of work since my favourite Coldplay CD, A Rush of Blood to the Head. To say I am excited would be understating it – I will be poised at the doors of my favourite Continue Reading