links for 2009-07-08

• Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star - 4oD - Channel 4
  Did anyone else watch this?
  
  
• Whose Line Is It Anyway? - 4oD - Channel 4
  All of the British episodes. Notice how the suggestions become markedly less intellectual once John Session leaves. If I remember rightly he once managed to do a whole sketch in the style of Ben Johnson. Classic.
  
  
• St Elsewhere - 4oD - Channel 4
  All six seasons. I wonder if someone somewhere will work their way through. This is quite a coup.
  
  
• Smack the Pony - Channel 4
  Thanks goodness. The video compilation is clearly inadequate.
  
  
• Paul Merton: The Series - 4oD - Channel 4
  I have a feeling this (like Spotify) is being done on an indie by indie basis. I think all of the Hatrick series are on here.
  
  
• North Square - 4oD - Channel 4
  The best legal drama you've never seen. Because if you had it would have got a second series.
  
  
• GBH - 4oD - Channel 4
  Calm, calm, calm.
  
  
• Faking It - Episode Guide - Channel 4
  Which episode do you remember? I saw the cellist turned DJ Sian Evans on a train not long afterwards. Best I can make out she's at the Ulster Orchestra...
  
  
• Drop the Dead Donkey - 4oD - Channel 4
  "George?" "Yes Alex." "You know the MPs expenses row..." Gosh I wish this was still around to comment on our heady times. "Oh my viking! Oh my norse warrior!"
  
  
• Dressing for Breakfast - 4oD - Channel 4
  One of my favourite ever sitcoms though unlike Desmonds none of the episodes have their own title. Shame.
  
  
• Desmond's - 4oD - Channel 4
  I mean they have the whole of Desmonds. Lovely titles "The Peckham Pimpernel" "Smokeless Fuming" "Vanity Merchants".
  
  
• Chelmsford 123 - Series 1 - Channel 4
  How can the whole of Streetmate be on 4oD and not this? Someone sign the contracts now!
  
  
• Cape Wrath - Series 1 - Channel 4
  I love the way this hopefully says "Series One". Hello to David Morissey.
  
  
• The Camomile Lawn - 4oD - Channel 4
  Reminded again of The Fourmative Years: "Aah, The Camomile Lawn featuring the woman with the alabaster breasts..."
  
  
• The Book Group - 4oD - Channel 4
  The mythic though it is out on dvd. I wonder what that James Lance is doing now...
  
  
• Blue Heaven - 4oD - Channel 4
  One of the most miserabalist sitcoms ever. Apparently it nearly killed Frank from fatigue in the making.
  
  
• Banzai - 4oD - Channel 4
  Probably worth seeing again from a pop cultural perspective. Just what is TPT doing now?
  
  
• The Adam and Joe Show - 4oD - Channel 4
  Doesn't include The Fourmative Years unfortunately. Pick, pick, pick.
  
  
• Absolutely - 4oD - Channel 4
  Just want to keep track of some things I might want to watch later. Look -- Absolutely!
  
  
• The Stage / News / Coronation Street moves under ITV schedule overhaul
  ITV really have stopped caring about innovation haven't they? Major schedule overhaul means moving the soaps around a bit just in case the football's on. “We’re delighted that Thursday evenings on ITV1 will be a great showcase for soap from Weatherfield and the Woolpack" (as opposed to every other night of the week...)
  
  
• Chicane's "Poppiholla" cover tackles Sigur Ros, racial prejudice | My Chemical Toilet
  That really is appalling. Horrible cover version backed up by the kind of hackneyed god-awful liberalism that gives us liberals a bad name by being inadvertently racist whilst attempting to combat racism. You might as well redo the tea shop scene from Withnail & I using The Wayans Brothers. Or something. Stuart's analysis is correct and hilarious.
  
  
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » A Roman mosaic the size of my first apartment
  "The 1700 year old, 600 square foot (180 square meter) masterpiece was first found in Lod, Israel, 13 years ago. It’s a riot of gorgeousness, full of colors, exotic animals, seafaring scenes, swirly decorative motifs, and it’s almost complete"
  
  
• This is an ad » This is an ad for Air New Zealand
  Those uniforms must take a while to put on in the morning. Talk about long haul etc.