TV If that names means nothing to you then you haven't been introduced to the insane world of Boston Legal , yet another series set in...

Politics At the Politics Blogging Panel last week, I wondered by politicians aren't using something like YouTube to spread their words...

TV All over the local news last night and this morning were reminders that analogue BBC's One and Two broadcasts from Winter Hill woul...

About I'm selling some very bad films on ebay because the collection needs thinning out and I can't imagine I'll ever want to ...

Fiction After being avenged, we wasn't happier.

TV PM are reporting (I’m just listening to it now) that ITV have confirmed their decision to close Granada Kids which means they will no l...

Theatre I have of late, but wherefore I know not retreated to Shakespeare. I think it's no doubt the post-academic slump, the shift f...

Words My new word for the day is ' Zoonosis '. That's ' Zoonosis '.

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TV BBC one 's new onscreen idents are lovely, returning some authority to the channel. The Windows image reminds me of Andreas Gursky...

Film(?) At some point in the future, someone studying film will be given an essay title. ' An Inconvenient Truth is not a film. Dis...

Theatre "Covent Garden's Theatre Museum is set to be closed down permanently, after plans for a partnership to run a revamped ins...

Radio For readers who aren't staunch party supporters but like to be kept in the loop, from New Years Eve and for eight weeks, Doctor ...

Film I grudgingly enjoyed Tim Story's Fantastic Four -- well it was rubbish obviously but there were enough good character moments to...

History "Part of the UK's national music archive could be lost as a result of copyright law, the British Library has warned. The...

Film Have a look at this cover for the new dvd release of Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuses : "Uninhibited sex, random violence....

Life So for the second time this year I was sitting in a room filled with fellow hoodlums (bloggers) . The difference this time was that ...

Politics I don't tend to talk about politics here -- well alright I don't ever talk about politics here, partly because I wouldn...

That Day It was my Dad's sixty-fourth birthday today and we heralded him with the inevitable Beatles song. I know that everyone says ...

Film Although Big Fish offered some redemption after execrable Planet of the Apes remake, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is another ...