Look, if we were at home for the things below, we'd have "live rewound" them. We weren't at home, so couldn't. Which makes this update quite dull and devoid of Topfield screen grabs.BBC One, 2.29pm. BrokenTV's Dad points out the awfulness of Dizzee Rascal and Calvin Harris's "Dance Wiv Me", and the family television is tuned to ITV. BrokenTV agrees,...
Friday, 26 December 2008
Tuesday, 23 December 2008
An Early Christmas Present to All Readers
Admittedly, one someone else has made. But it makes for an easy update for us. Ahem. It's a webpage hosting a program called: iPlayer Downloader. It allows you to download programmes from the BBC iPlayer, just like Stephen Fry predicted his mum would soon be doing.If you're anything like us, it might all seem to be written in a special language understood...
Monday, 22 December 2008
Scariest Thing On Telly This Christmas? The BBC HD Preview Loop.
Ever concerned about the needs of their viewers, the BBC have introduced a High Definition version of the test card.Check out that linearity of the grey scale, there. Woo. There's only one problem with it.They've also resampled the original image of Carole Hersee, so that even...
Sunday, 21 December 2008
Adventures Of Two Unconvincingly Fake CGI Snowmen and a One
Our oath to update the blog every day in December was always bound to falter, what with us spending the last three nights at different Christmas shindigs, and the last three mornings nursing fragile heads. Right now, a stomach that feels like a ten car pile up on an icy M62 prevents us from making the 'comeback' post anything too strenuous, so we're...
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Don't Diss The Hart
Last night's Screen Wipe was excellent, as might be expected, but we've a straw to pick with guest contributor John Comedian (oh, alright, we don't know his name). Sneering at the ineptitude of David Liebe Hart (who, as the cool kids all know, is also a part of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! on Adult Swim) just doesn't work, because that's pretty...
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
What Merry Hell Is This?
Well, there hasn't been a new low for television in, what, six months? Or if you read The Mail or The Express, about three days. But anyway, earlier on today we took a wander through the Sky EPG to see if it's worth resubscribing after six months away. The main content on the...
Monday, 15 December 2008
Must Be The Russians!!!!1
It's December the 15th already! That means we've gone through half of the month without even posting one embedded YouTube clip of Bad BBC VT Engineer Acting.Phew, that was a close ca...
Sunday, 14 December 2008
A New Game For Everyone To Play
On last night's Strictly Come Dancing, this apparently happened:We didn't see it as we were watching the new Richard Herring DVD, which is ace, but it seems there was a bit of a cockup with the voting, and the show ended ten minutes early, to be filled with trailers. We're genuinely disappointed with not seeing this, as we love it when telly goes wrong...
Saturday, 13 December 2008
Pre Awards Show Off
Both regular readers of this blog may recall that we generally round off each calendar year with several thousand words essentially slagging off those who have disappointed us over the previous fifty-two weeks. A bit like Frank Costanza every Festivus, come to think of it. If there's any room left over, we'll probably mention the things that we liked,...
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Campaign Magazine Mess Up
Campaign Magazine have published a list of the ten worst television commercials of 2008. Except, because it's December, they've called the article "Campaign's top 10 turkeys of 2008", the chumps. Most of the choices make sense, some of them don't, and there's one glaring cock-up....
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Another Somewhat Lazily Linked YouTube Video, But A Good One, So That's All Right Then
Continuing on from yesterday's super YouTube video "Christmas Wrapping: Xmas at the BBC, 1976-1984", it's another one of the same for your edification and amusement. It can only be "Christmas Wrapping: Xmas at the BBC, 1985-1989", which is handy for us, as we've not got time for a proper update today. Will try harder tomorr...
Broken TV Doesn't Make Christmas TV Themed YouTube Videos...
... but if we did, they still wouldn't be as good as this. This is splendid.Hats off to YouTube user "Applemask" for putting all that together, and indeed to TV Cream for doing the article it was based ...
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
"It Simply Ain't Right!" "But It's Cheap..."
Unfashionably late with Monday's update, so this will have to do. We've been listening on and off to a brilliant music compilation made available by the mighty WFMU in New Jersey. It's an American radio station, so what else could it be but...Charlie Drake, Peter Sellars, Morecambe...
Sunday, 7 December 2008
Great Christmas Specials Of Our Time, Part One
It's a collection of lazily embedded YouTube links!"I love that bike!" "You dirty devil!""La Plage""Out of the cowskin, and wake up the sleeping princess.""First, peel two shepherds.""And now for something completely differen...
Saturday, 6 December 2008
"No Pun Intended. Or, Indeed, Delivered." MASSIVE NEWSTOPIA PICTURE SPECIAL
Well, it looks like that is that. Shaun Micallef introduced the most recent midweek portion of antipodean lampoonery with the words: "This is the last Newstopia. Let's make it the best one ever." And if the SBS messageboard is anything to go by, he possibly ain't messing. That...
Friday, 5 December 2008
"And They Have Babyshambles As Their Ringtone"
A bit behind the times, but seriously, how fantastic is Countdown going to be from now on?Move, over Noel! There's a new king of dayti...
Thursday, 4 December 2008
This Peter Kay Thing (Part Three of a Three Part Series)
Previously on our misguidedly elongated review of Peter Kay's latest cash-in: this pre-amble, and this breakdown. And on we go.0:44:33 The second part of his first appearance on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, with Kay seguing a mention of the theme to Van Der Valk with an...
