* Whoever it was that made the decision to start playing the woefully censored version of MIA's Paper Planes, where it sounds like a sound effects CD is played on 'shuffle' in place of the gun noises, even though they'd been playing the uncensored version quite happily for about a year.* Any Radio One presenter who uses the dread phrase "how random...
Thursday, 30 October 2008
The Sachs Crisis: Day Five
In a world where there are currently a total of six wars causing at least 1000 violent deaths per year, there's certainly room for a lot of outrage. How refreshing then, that it's continuing to be channelled into vicarious indignation on behalf of a man who has already graciously accepted apologies from the perpetrators. And we're sure the 5,400,000...
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Andrew Sachs-Gate Update
According to 6Music, they've both been suspended. We can't help but think how Paul Ross must feel right now, with him temporatily being the more popular of the Ross brothers for the first time in his career. He'll probably mess it up by going on a clip show and trying to manufacture a controversial opinion about Paul Daniels or somethi...
BrokenTV's Contribution To Andrew Sachs-Gate
Three days! Three entire days! That's the number of days in a row that our clock radio has woken us up to the sound of people phoning in to Five Live to whinge about Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross' prank phone call. About 93% of callers were frothing at the mouth about how they should both be sacked (and therefore receive a hefty severance package...
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Gearing Up For Election '08: Take Us Out To The Ball Game
Trying to get ourselves in the mood for next week's Live US Election 2008 Blogstravaganza, we're trying to watch the pivotal Game Five of the 2008 World Series on Five. Can the Phillies overcome the Rays to clinch the title? Or the other way around, we don't really care enough...
Saturday, 25 October 2008
Trying Out The iGoogle Blogger Widget
If this works properly, we could add all manner of ill-considered, poorly-formatted and instantly regrettable meanderings, without even any pictures of anything, and without the safety net of Firefox's inline spellcheck.So, Family Fortunes, eh? It isn't in the news or anything, but here's a thing that has only just occurred to us. When the pre-amble...
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Marketing Idiocy: Back and Forth
15th July 2008, BrandRepublic: "The Marketing profile: Tom Lucas of UKTV""As a marketer, Lucas is confident that his team can persuade the public that what they are doing is worth watching and he plans to boost investment in marketing, which will promote the effectiveness of...
Thursday, 16 October 2008
An Appeal To Make BBC Four* Better (*Or More4)
Rather wonderfully, television's finest satirical news programme is back on the air down under, and is currently 30% of the way through a third series. That'll mean thirty episodes in just over twelve months. On the Australian equivalent of BBC Four. Good news for the people...
Broken TV: Late and Blue and Naked
It's double Australian television update night on BrokenTV! In a moment, we're going to start banging on about Newstopia again until everyone else agrees that we're right. And they will. You'll see. But first, female soapstar nudity.We all remember how, instead of it being ripe for parody by lazy arsed late 1980s television comedians, Prisoner Cell...
Monday, 13 October 2008
Soon To Be Available As A Spin-Off CD Single
As one might expect, all of the talk around the BrokenTV office water cooler today was about last night's Peter Kay one-off show 'Britain's Got the Pop Factor...'"I lasted about half-an-hour. How about you?""I could barely last for twenty minutes. Shocking, wasn't it?""I somehow...
Sunday, 12 October 2008
You Can't Spell 'Pointless Rebranding' Without 'PR'
Editor's Note: The following press release has been slightly re-edited to reflect what everyone is actually thinking.UKTV has confirmed that its People and Documentary channels will be the first in its factual lineup to be pointlessly rebranded in order to remind everyone that they exist.As with its channels in the 'good' EPG slots, which were renamed...
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
The Second Live Presidential Debate: Live Blogette
In bullet form! * The CNN likey-charts are back again. They're still pretty compelling - as soon as McCain mentions something about the price of oil going down, the line for Uncommitted Ohio Men zips upward like a policeman's truncheon going from limp to horizontal when Barbara Windsor bends over to pick up something in one of the bad Carry On films....
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
The Red Cross
The BrokenTV office has just switched broadband provider, and as you might expect, we misremembered the date of switchover. As a result, all the images hosted at ADSL24 have disappeared before we could move them. We are, as you will already be aware, rubbish.We'll go around fixing mixed up image links as soon as possible (as soon as we can find a decent...
Sunday, 5 October 2008
Well, That's Us Not Getting Any Sleep Tonight
In an update of a story we "exclusively" broke back in January (in the tabloid, not actually exclusive sense of the word), the BBC have revealed the script that was to be used in the event of a nuclear war in the 1970s. And with that, they have guaranteed we'll spend the small hours of Monday in bed, thinking about the most harrowing bits of Threads...
Femtoupdate: Bargwatch
HMV.co.uk are selling Absolutely Everything, the eight disc boxset containing every episode of the best sketch comedy of the 1990s, for a penny under thirteen GBP. It is usually £35.If you don't buy this, and you don't already own it, you deserve to have your eyes confiscated....
Friday, 3 October 2008
The Sound Of Two Palms Slapping, and Two Legs Running
Yeah, we know. It's fair to say that there's very little as unbecoming as universally unpopular websites pathetically high-fiving themselves, and we should be above that. However, if you knew us, really properly actually knew us, you'd know that we can often be found shamelessly...
It's The Live US Vice Presidential Debate Special!
(Keep checking for live updates, until we fall asleep.)Preamble. There's a sentence we never expected to be typing into the headline box. Will it be one of those live blogs we do that we give up on after fifteen minutes and duly delete? That has happened a few times. Given the...
