On the one day of the year when people have something better to do than visit an unpopular blog that was quite good for a month in 2007, a rare update! It’s a complete (in several parts) Christmas episode of defunct Aussie panel show Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation. Because hey, if you understood the reference in the title of this blogpost, you’re all...
Tuesday, 25 December 2012
Sunday, 16 December 2012
The BrokenTV End Of Year Video Extravaganza Part One: The 20 Best Songs Of 2012
Inarguably so. Having spent every single minute of the last month listening to every single song recorded in 2012 (with no sleep, often listening to six or seven songs simultaneously in order to get through them all), we've whittled them down to the twenty greatest songs pumped out into the world since 1 January 2012. And here they are, presented to...
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
It’s BrokenTV’s US Election 2012 FREE £5000 GIVEAWAY SWEEPSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!
Yes! After what feels like 19 months, 713,000 hours of pointlessly televised rhetoric and 4.2 billion idiots on Twitter who don’t even live in America banging on about it as if it makes them somehow seem ‘interesting’ (hello!), the 2012 US Presidential Election Night Of Nights...
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Run Wrake (1965-2012)
As reported on BoingBoing, underappreciated animation genius and illustrator Run Wrake has sadly passed away after losing a battle with cancer at the horrendously young age of 47. By chance, we’d only recently stumbled over his YouTube channel, which seems to have gone largely...
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Bye Then, Analogue
Though luckily, BBC Northern Ireland were on hand to make sure it didn’t just fizzle out without a suitable salute. As you can see here: They’ll have a job topping that when digital broadcasting is switched off in 2078 (to be replaced by all television being put out in edible pill form). Lovely stuff....
Monday, 13 August 2012
So. What Did The American Media Make Of That Bit In The Olympic Closing Ceremony With Rodney and Del-Boy In It, Then?
Wondering how the US media covered the bit of the Olympics closing ceremony where “Del Boy” and “Rodney” appeared? Here’s what the New York Times live blog said about them: Sadly, they don’t seem to have picked up on the BIG news that Eric Idle was (presumably) the first...
Friday, 10 August 2012
Yeah, Er, Thanks, But…
Our Twitter feed feels slightly tainted now. This is possibly payback for us trying to display a modicum of understanding for the subjects of BBC Two’s Young, Bright and On The Right when we previewed it in last Saturday’s Guardian Guide :(...
Thursday, 9 August 2012
The Thursday Film: Oo Vuf Welcome, In Jaaaaaaaam
In protest at Team GB spending a whole day not bothering to win any gold medals, we’re skipping today’s Olympic update. Oh, okay, we couldn’t be bothered. Instead, what might become a nice idea for a weekly update where we ‘curate’ (post a YouTube link to) a ‘fascinating movie...
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Olympic YouTube Gold Day 5: Oh, You Guys! ITV Live Coverage Of Seoul 1988? Like, As If!
We have to admit, the fakery skills of the YouTube faux-continuity community are becoming increasingly realistic. You can’t even tell this was made using MS Paint and Windows Video Maker AT ALL. After all, were it not for the fanciful notion of ITV bothering with actual Olympic coverage, we might even have been fooled. Oh RIGHT – as if they were...
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Olympic YouTube Gold Day 4: Olympic Grandstand 1984
The first Olympics we can actually remember with any real kind of clarity - Daley Thompson! Zola Budd! “Of course, many of these contestants come from nations without swimming pools.” All that. It was also the first time* the BBC went all out on presentation for their Olympic...
Monday, 6 August 2012
Olympic YouTube Gold Day 3: BBC Good Morning Mexico,1968
Remember the concept of British Cynicism? What were all that about? Yeah, we’re getting increasingly suckered in by it all, especially now we’re not distracted by the Team GB football team (which is probably as close as we’ll ever get to seeing Wales in the finals of a major...
Olympic YouTube Gold*: Day Two (*Still Soon To Be Retitled “Quadrennial Sporting Occasion YouTube Shiny Brown” Under Threat Of Legal Action)
Second-division Hanna-Barbara characters: this is, as Martine McCutcheon might say, Your Golden Moment. It’s an episode of 1977 cartoon ‘supergroup’ Laff-A-Lympics! With fondly remembered characters like, er, Dynomutt, Taffy Dare, Hokey Wolf, Blabber, Junior Creeply and Orful...
Sunday, 5 August 2012
Olympic YouTube Gold*: Day One (*Soon To Be Retitled “Quadrennial Sporting Occasion YouTube Shiny Brown” Under Threat Of Legal Action)
Hey, it’s all going really well, isn’t it? Even all the people who’d been bleating on about how it was going to be rubbish have been pretty quiet. So, what better time to pick out some of our favourite Olympic-related TV moments from the digital wilderness? And nothing at...
Saturday, 4 August 2012
The LG 42LM660T: A Television Review For The Rest Of Us
You know the score. You have your eye on a new TV set, partly because your current television had, er, someone live-pause it on a shot of Gabby Logan for an hour meaning there’s some incriminating burn-in stuck there, and partly because if you want to watch Netflix on your...
Friday, 27 July 2012
Twitter Just Got 8.34% Better…
…because offkilter animation pioneer John Krickfalusi is now on it. Purportedly. Though, slightly strangely using the @JohnKricfalusi1 non-de-twume, as the account name @JohnKricfalusi was already in use by, er, A mostly inactive account, with only six tweets ever,...
Thursday, 26 July 2012
LIST SPECIAL: The Fifty Most-Watched (and Least-Watched) TV Channels In The UK, 2012
Channel 4 have recently been running a series of programmes looking at mental disorders, and the stigma often unfairly attached to them. The most enjoyable of these so far was Tuesday night’s A LITTLE BIT OCD, where nowhere-near-as-popular-as-he-bloody-well-should-be comedian...
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Real, REAL Mad Men
WEIRDLY COMPELLING RETRO ARTHOUSE YOUTUBE OF THE DAY. Advertising has never BEEN so Madison Avenue-style weird, compelling, and dare we say it, educational as this. A 27-minute long pitch born from the brain of design legend Saul Bass, looking at a 1970 reimagining of the...
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Nozin’ Aroun’ USA
LITTLE KNOWN FACT: You know the infamous Nozin’ Aroun’ show-within-a-show from The Young Ones? With a young Ben Elton telling us how it’ll be looking at the issues facing YOUNG ADULTS in the modern crazy world of 1982? Well, it was actually based on a Chicago public access...
