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TV Preview: Misfits, E4
Thursday, 5 Nov, 2009 – 16:00 | 2 Comments
TV Preview: Misfits, E4

7FB50A18-CBA0-409E-A124-0039962B5322_extraA new E4 series called Misfits you say? About a group of young delinquents doing community service?

We’ve not been this put off a new TV series since the Bad Girls pilot. In fact, the likelihood of a good series coming from E4 is akin to that of finding a hen’s tooth, or Tess Daly’s soul.

Imagine the disquiet and shock which consumed us when we saw the first episode of this teen-insert genre here and discovered it’s actually quite good. Maybe Tess Daly has a soul after all.*

Hecklerspray Meets Stephen Moyer Of True Blood
Friday, 9 Oct, 2009 – 12:00 | 3 Comments
Hecklerspray Meets Stephen Moyer Of True Blood

moyerIn the build up to the launch of vampire drama True Blood on Channel 4, hecklerspray’s Keith Emmerson caught up with the defiantly charming and ruggedly handsome Stephen Moyer (who plays Bill Compton) to discover the man behind the vampire.

We are also reassuringly told that he could kill Robert Pattinson if he had to. If you didn’t catch the first episode on Channel 4, it’s available on 4OD – watch it.

Video after the jump!

TV Review: Electric Dreams, BBC4, 29/09
Friday, 2 Oct, 2009 – 10:00 | No Comment
TV Review: Electric Dreams, BBC4, 29/09

hamish“We’ll always be together. Together in electric dreams.” Or at least that’s what renowned fibbers Giorgio Moroder and Philip Oakey would have us believe.

Electric Dreams also happens to be the name of a new three-part series which, combined with some other technology focused programmes, creates the Electric Revolution season on what is the UK’s last beacon of hope in this multi-channel revolving pit of despair, BBC Four.

TV Review: FlashForward, Five, 28/09
Tuesday, 29 Sep, 2009 – 17:00 | No Comment
TV Review: FlashForward, Five, 28/09

FlashForward, FlashForward reviewFlashForward is Channel 5’s hot new US TV show that literally some people are talking about.

The writers of FlashForward came up with the idea while cleaning their kitchen surfaces and thought to themselves, “Goodness! I wish I could fast-forward this arduous task!” A two minute pause followed. “Hold on…Flash kitchen cleaner, Fast-Forward…..FlashForward!”

Handily, that’s also the premise of this new Lost-esque sort of sci-fi, but definitely action/drama, genre series.

Hecklerspray Attends The Motorola Dext Launch
Thursday, 17 Sep, 2009 – 15:00 | One Comment
Hecklerspray Attends The Motorola Dext Launch

-1Sixty-seven miles up Millbank Tower, and after many glasses of champagne, a playboy comedian/presenter is announcing the phone that might just save Motorola’s bacon.

Nearby tech journalists were none the wiser as to whom this man was, yet they still rejected our theory that it could be Dave Berry. However, simply asking one of the PR people, and waiting for them to ask another PR person was all we had to do to discover that he was none other than Big Brother’s Big Mouth’s Jeff Leach.

We took Jeff aside for five minutes to reflect on the event and ask what he’d been…

Hecklerspray Meets Pat Sharp & The Funhouse Twins
Thursday, 16 Jul, 2009 – 12:00 | One Comment
Hecklerspray Meets Pat Sharp & The Funhouse Twins

pat-sharpYou may have thought recently “Whatever happened to Pat Sharp?” And then you may have remembered “Oh yeah, he’s on the radio. All the blinking time.”

But what about Melanie and Martina Grant, the twins from his legendary gameshow Fun House? Where are they? Well, they’re right here, along with Pat Sharp who we really can’t seem to get rid of. We’ve only flipping interviewed the three of them! At once!

What are Melanie and Martina doing now? Did they ever get it on with Pat Sharp? Did Pat Sharp base his haircut on Jesus? It’s all there, in video form, after the…

TV Preview: You Have Been Watching, Channel 4, 07/07
Tuesday, 7 Jul, 2009 – 15:30 | No Comment
TV Preview: You Have Been Watching, Channel 4, 07/07

cbEvery now and then we like to catch a virus just to mix things up a bit and remind our immune system that it still has a role to play in our continuing existence.

To keep things interesting, given that it is summer; we decided to go with the common cold. As males we know how devastating this can be, with days of unrelenting torment and an extra 15 minutes added to getting up rituals spent futilely pumping enough drugs and various homeopathic remedies into our bodies until we feel we can connect with the outside world.

We decided to hold…

TV Preview: The Take, Sky 1
Tuesday, 16 Jun, 2009 – 10:00 | No Comment
TV Preview: The Take, Sky 1

takeCan you imagine an East End gangster drama which doesn’t star Danny Dyer? Moreover, can you imagine one which wasn’t directed by Guy Richie?

It isn’t an easy concept to fathom; god knows sometimes we don’t want to. Unfortunately it isn’t our choice; Sky 1 is forcing us to picture such an idea because of their new 1980s 4-part drama The Take, starting tomorrow.

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