Bordering the halfway mark and this will be the last post from my room and my wonderful computer with the good monitor and keyboard for a couple of hours. The next post I make will be from the living room, just as my movie starts ( Read more... )

I've been seeing ads all day in AO (yes, they actually have paid ads in this MMO, which might be tacky but it's how I'm managing to be a free user so I won't complain) telling me that Lost is coming to British TV on August 10 ( Read more... )

The Reality Channel were doing an evening of programmes dedicated to hauntings, possession and the like, so I tuned in (although I missed the first half of the programme on exorcisms, which was annoying as it looked interesting).

The Exorcisms programme dealt pretty much exclusively with the Catholic rite, which I suppose was good as I've noticed ( Read more... )

I watched one of those TV programmes that collects weird ads and TV clips from TV shows all around the world earlier. One clip was from a Russian talk show that is apparently the Russian equivalent of the Jerry Springer show (Jerry Springer hosts a talk show in the mornings over here now. It's pretty much the only thing that gets me out of bed ( Read more... )

I noted in passing that the sixth series of Big Brother (or Big Brother: 666, which makes me want to smack them with a frying pan and point out that it's actually 616, as the translators discovered the other month) started last night. This year, as well as the usual bunch of socially maladjusted attention whores, they've got see-through walls, ( Read more... )

Third from bottom! Third from bloody bottom! And this year we actually had a half-decent entry and the Iraq war is a whole two years behind us so I don't know what went on there. Actually, I do - there's now 39 countries who get to vote in this thing, and over half of them are Eastern European, formerly parts of the same country or satellites to ( Read more... )

It's Eurovision tonight! That time of year when we all get to show our national and European pride by... singing songs that we wouldn't normally admit to liking, dressing up silly and then listening to Terry Wogan genteely bitching about the other countries and the political voting. There's now so many countries that qualify to be a part of the ( Read more... )

Yes, I watched it. I like camp, kitsch and crap ( Read more... )

So, Scare Tactics is half-way through it's slot (it's two half-hour shows in an hour-long slot), and I'm amused. It's the latest in the Reality TV curse that we're all living under right now; a sort of cross between Fear Factor and Candid Camera. People nominate their friends to be scared, basically, in really weird/freaky situations. Some of the ( Read more... )

Caught this new TV series on the Sci-Fi Channel last night. It'a about this guy who wakes up naked and alone on an isolated island and can't remember anything about hiself... but he knows everything. In fact, not only does he know everything, he can use the knowledge too, such as flying helicopters and the like. He's also monochromatically ( Read more... )