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TV Review: Electric Dreams, BBC4, 29/09

by Keith Emmerson

“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 [...]

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TV Review: FlashForward, Five, 28/09

by Keith Emmerson

FlashForward 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 [...]

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Hecklerspray Attends The Motorola Dext Launch

by Keith Emmerson

Sixty-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 [...]

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Hecklerspray Meets Pat Sharp & The Funhouse Twins

by Keith Emmerson

You 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 [...]

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TV Preview: You Have Been Watching, Channel 4, 07/07

by Keith Emmerson

Every 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 [...]

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TV Preview: The Take, Sky 1

by Keith Emmerson

Can 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 [...]

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TV Review: Hope Springs, BBC1 (HD), 7/6

by Keith Emmerson

In the early 20th Century, the Suffragette movement fought and campaigned to give women independence and the vote, but what has modern woman done with this privilege? They’ve made Hope Springs, what a waste. The opening scenes draw heavily from Hustle, and any prison based drama you can think of. Throughout proceedings the viewer is [...]

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TV Review: Reggie Perrin, BBC1, 24/04

by Keith Emmerson

Writer Simon Nye and Martin Clunes have teamed up again to present this remake of the much revered Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin starring Leonard Rossiter. If you listen carefully you might just be able to hear him turning in his grave, assuming he wasn’t cremated of course. Who knows. We actually really wanted [...]

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TV Review: All the Small Things, BBC1, 31/03

by Keith Emmerson

You might think that creating a TV programme off the back of a song by a guitar-based pop group was a bad idea, and you’d be right, mostly. All the Small Things won us over quite early on with a choral rendition of Bond theme Nobody Does It Better. It is a shame that the [...]

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TV Review: The Apprentice, BBC1, 25/03

by Keith Emmerson

We’re the best there is, ever was, and ever will be. In fact, we’re the Jesus of business and we’d kill every child ever used on a Huggies or Andrex advert to win, the cuter the deader. That’s right, The Apprentice is back! Just in time too, as we need something to fill in the [...]

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