You see, what that dastardly Nintendo don't tell you is this - you might get used to the daily festival of fitness-related fun. You may find yourself amazed at your ability to do headstands with something approaching impunity. You may unlock most of the unlockables. You may - gasp! - lose weight.But what they won't be telling you is this: you might...
Saturday, 28 June 2008
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Bad News, Future Career! (2)
Oh, C'MON! We've got stuff to do, we can't be done with discovering exclusive behind the scenes clips, unbroadcast sketches and extracts of rushes from Newstopia now. Bloody hell, The Internet.They're even in hi-res YouTube mode.Be warned if you're not already a fan of Newstopia,...
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Bad News, Future Career!
Is it just us, or is it a universal truth that every time you need to get something really rather important done on your computer (such as, to pluck an example at random from the ether, doing the final piece of coursework for the academic year for an important one-chance-only...
Monday, 23 June 2008
Free Euro 2008 TV Coverage T-Shirt For All Readers Inside
It's the BrokenTV Euro 2008 coverage Wordle: (Click for bigger)Wordle is our new favourite internet toy ever. At least for this week. We'd be tempted to get T-shirts made with this design, if only it weren't for the fact they'd be tremendously out of date by the time they became...
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Euro 2008: Final Score
The BBC are spending most of half-time in the Spain-Italy match running a feature where The 14 Year Old Boy Who Seems To Have Won A Blue Peter Competition To Become One Of The Anchors For Euro 2008 visits the locations in Vienna where The Third Man was filmed, marking each of...
Friday, 20 June 2008
Thought For The Femtosecond
Why are the people behind the advertising campaigns for WKD so keen to market it aggressively at the 25-49 year old 'bloke' demographic when it's chiefly purchased by teenage girls?Now, we're sure we're not the first to make this observation, but the current woeful advert ("Ha...
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
New TV Scandals Unearthed *BrokenTV Exclusive!!*
"Exclusive" mainly in the sense that these haven't actually happened yet, but when either/both does/do... hoo, boy. Who'll be sitting at the top of the Google page rankings and being invited onto News 24? We've got a shirt ironed and ready, just in case.It's always worth keeping an eye on Paddy Power's 'novelty bets' section, as it's always good for...
Monday, 16 June 2008
Schedule B: In Memorium
As the ticking of our clock inexorably inches us closer to the point where our Sky subscription lapses for the first time in ten years (since Sky Digital was launched, in fact*), we feel the time is right to salute some of the fallen heroes (channels) that have graced the platform...
Schedule A: Euro 2008 Day, erm, Ten?
After ITV Sport phoning it in for their coverage of the fantastic Turkey vs Czech Republic match, BBC are pulling out all the stops for their coverage of Austria vs Germany. The programme begins with a well-crafted montage of the footballing history between the two nations. Is it just us, or are the BBC the only broadcaster able to put these together...
Friday, 13 June 2008
Schedule A: Euro 2008 Day Seven (Semi-Live Blog)
After conspiring to miss the matches over the last couple of days, we're back in football watching mode. Our attempts to catch the repeat of Germany vs Croatia on ITV4 were hampered by the broadcaster accidentally simulcasting forty minutes of the CITV Channel instead of the...
Monday, 9 June 2008
Schedule B: Big Brother Update
We haven't watched it since launch night, as the football and repeats of Family Guy have been enough to keep us entertained when we've not been out in the sun. And it seems we might not be alone. Taking the viewing figures from Media Guardian, Euro 2008 is currently outstripping...
Schedule A: Euro 2008 Day Three
Holland vs ItalyWhy is it that the BBC use 'Netherlands', while ITV are going with 'Holland'? Anyway, we're with ITV1 for the start of their tournament 'proper', and they've finally got main anchor Steve Rider in front of the camera for this. Andy Townsend is on the pundit rota...
Saturday, 7 June 2008
Schedule B: Other Listings Magazines Are Available
We don't really know why so many people buy TV listings magazines any more. You've got your EPGs, your free internet listings guides (like the Radio Times website), your Series Link to make sure you don't miss your favourite programmes and your DigiGuides. And then your iPlayer, UK Nova, or your Rapidshare if you manage to miss a programme after all...
Schedule A: Euro 2008 - **Live Blog**
And here it is. For those who don't remember our coverage of the 2006 World Cup, this is where we view the coverage from different broadcasters, and allocate (and subtract) points according to how good or bad their coverage is. Last time around, ESPN India nicked the prize at...
Friday, 6 June 2008
One Day To Go, And One Day Gone
Schedule A:Kicking this off a day earlier than we'd anticipated. Because of this very interesting news from MeejaGrauniad. Here's the main bit of it, in case only registered users can view articles from MG:The BBC has teamed up with Wallace & Gromit producer Aardman to create...
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Max Ernst and Davina McCall. Together At Last.
Schedule A: If Max Ernst Worked For PaniniSplendidly, UEFA's own Euro 2008 minisite is rather lovely, including as it does all manner of flash gimmickry. It evens goes has far to include a set of graphs so pointless even we're taken aback. At least if you ever find yourself...
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Schedule A, and Schedule B
Euro 2008 is just around the corner, and in tribute we're going to adapt one of the best things about every large international football tournament. A regular sighting in listings magazines around the time of the knockout stages is the wonderful alternate schedule. Seemingly...
Things Television Commercials Have Taught Us
Y'know, we used to be your typical feminist, tofu-munching, Mark Thomas, commie-liberal types. Until one particular advert has managed to finally seep through the limestone of our consciousness and change our world-view forever.We used to think that women, with their cute little...
Sunday, 1 June 2008
Deah Gamesmar-star
Crikey.Now, we're an incredible duffers at multiplayer Grand Theft Auto IV - in fact, we've just turned off the BrokenTV 360 in a petulant sulk after getting our collective arse handed to us in Mafiya mode for the umpteenth time. In BrokenTV's entire GTA Race online 'career',...
