I'm even more surprised that today's lowculture article actually appeared on the front page, I lost count of how many goes it took me. I may leave off any new previews until it starts behaving itself again (as far as I can tell it's only affecting me; it lets me on the site but I can only look at a few pages before it kicks me off, which makes ( Read more... )

I've been having a lot of trouble accessing lowculture lately so I'm surprised I even managed to get today's article up but somehow I seem to have. In theory my main contributions to the site are meant to be theatre previews but they've been short on the ground lately. Tracey Ullman seems like reason enough to flag up The City though: School ( Read more... )

Another lowculture-friendly show returns tonight, the funny semi-improvised sitcom Outnumbered. Although I may have been distracted by gloating over the fact that tonight also sees the godawful My Family finally meet its demise: Your number's up.

For today's lowculture article I thought I'd give BBC Four a plug, since it's once again in the news because of proposed budget cuts. (Is it me or does there always seem to be someone trying to take down BBC Four?) Today there's the start of a new documentary series on the Regency period, one of the times in British history that interests me a bit ( Read more... )

One good thing about the mid-series hiatus on this year's Doctor Who: Two series premieres and two finales means more opportunities to write something for the lowculture front page, which has been otherwise quiet over the summer. Tonight the show returns with "Let's Kill Hitler," a title so good it's going to be interesting to see if Steven Moffat ( Read more... )

There we go then, I've managed to go Monday to Friday with a lowculture article every day of the week - I think rad's planning some for the weekend and next week so hopefully it won't all suddenly go quiet again. I put Midsummer at #2 in my top ten shows of last year, and tonight an abridged version appears on Radio 4 so if you read my theatre ( Read more... )

I have to admit I'm not sure I'll actually watch the new series of Celebrity Big Brother that starts tonight, but that doesn't stop me writing about it on lowculture. I guess if there's some unexpected eye candy I might change my mind but the rumours of it being largely populated by stars of other reality shows (that I didn't watch in the first ( Read more... )

Who Do You Think You Are? isn't a glaringly obvious lowculture front pager but since I decided to do one every day this week some days are trickier than others - besides, it's J.K. Rowling's turn on the show digging up family trees, not bad timing what with the excitement of the last Harry Potter film being so recent. And anything's got to be ( Read more... )

This week on my Twitter feed, it's mainly me spotting famouses in the street, to be honest ( Read more... )

In theory, my lowculture preview today is of Elijah Wood's new comedy Wilfred, starting on BBC Three tonight. But when you're trying to write snarky commentary about a new show you haven't seen yet, it turns out that when the premise is "hobbit thinks neighbour's dog is an Australian man in a dog costume" it doesn't really leave you anywhere to go ( Read more... )