A couple of YouTube clips for this week's Friday post; first of all, a few weeks back I went to see the new Muppet movie. It was fine, overall, but one bit had me and Evil Alex cackling from the moment the music started. And it was this bit:

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This week on my Twitter feed, advance tickets go on sale at the Royal Court and National and it causes the usual bunfight, Russell Tovey leaves Being Human and nobody's that surprised, I get overexcited when Michael Marcus guests in Misfits, and The X Factor continues to exist ( Read more... )

Last week on The X Factor, a boyband who’ve had more members than the Sugababes got kicked out, and the producers thought a double elimination would be a good idea, meaning we lost Johnny Bedsit as well. Then in the week Arsetat bragged about snorting loads of great big lines of something called Golden Rule and had to be kicked out so they’ve ( Read more... )

This week on my Twitter feed, even more X Factor gubbins than usual as ARSETAT gets kicked out, lots of Sleb Spots in Soho and unnecessary intervals make me grumpy ( Read more... )

This week on my Twitter feed I get a very exciting Sleb Spot as I spot Drusilla from Buffy; and The X Factor starts again which means you can "look forward to" that flooding my timeline again every weekend for the next few months ( Read more... )

A quick lowculture preview now (I'd like to say there should be loads more coming up in the next couple of weeks but have you seen the Christmas TV schedules? What am I supposed to get excited about there?) Tonight BBC Four is showing the first-ever TV adaptation of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently series. vanessaw has already said she's sceptical about this ( Read more... )

It's the Final... Part 2! (Part 1 is here, go read that first.) On my travels around Dame Internet this weekend I was surprised to find a lack of agreement on who people thought would win - even the LC massive were divided, and people who have an almost perfect track record of predicting winners were way off (one person who always seems to be spot ( Read more... )

It’s time! To face! The fact that all those hours we’ve wasted watching The X Factor? We ain’t getting them back :( And there’s four more of them this weekend. FOUR! HOURS! Which I'm splitting into two posts this time for the sake of my sanity and yours. We’ll find out who gets to be the next X Factor winner, at the exact same time that last year’s ( Read more... )