Clive James used to front a TV programme in the eighties that was all about how peculiar and inferior foreign TV was at the time. Those crazy Japs, allowing themselves to be tortured with scorpions and publically humiliated to win a tiny prize! Those racy Scandiwegians, getting their knobs out in adverts for margarine ( Read more... )

Ha! it's gone midnight so this can be tomorrow's post. Tonight I went to see Tinker Tailor SOldier Spy. I think it's the first film I've seen in a cinema in about two years ( Read more... )

If I have just knocked some people of my f-list; some for not posting in a long while because they appear to have migrated to Facebook, some for posting endless strings of uncut fucking tweets. If you just want to broadcast your sandwich filling and a frigging emoticon to the world, hie thee to Facebook, too, please. /banging walking-stick on ( Read more... )

I was half way through this when events intervened. Late as ever.

Torchwood was almost life-changing TV. It nearly changed my life as it was almost enough to turn me homophobicI thought the first episode was ropey but pretty engaging, though I am just not enough of a fan of any TV programme to watch every episode (I have only ever recorded ( Read more... )