There’s a new show starting on E4 tonight. Misfits, it’s called. It’s a bit like Skins and a bit like Heroes, we’re told. Except, crucially, better than both of those two things.

And to mark this obviously prestigious moment, we’ve got a very special Misfits competition for you. One of you is going to win two orange Misfits T-shirts – a large and an extra-large – and a painfully exclusive Misfits comicbook. How’s that for blinding generosity, huh?

And you want to win all this Misfits stuff, don’t you? Of course you do, you’re only human. The question’s after the jump…

So, to win the Misfits T-shirts and the natty little comicbook, we’ll need you to watch the following trailer and answer a question…

QUESTION: Is Misfits going to be better or worse than Heroes?

To stand a chance of winning, email your answer and a contact address to Hello[at]hecklerspray.com with the subject line ‘God knows I hope it’s better’. The competition closes at midnight on Wednesday November 18 when the winner will be chosen at random. UK readers only please.

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McDonald’s seems to appear again and again on this feature.

Before you all think we must have got food poisoning off them once and subsequently hate Ronald McDonald, we don’t. Honestly, their advertising is just complete and utter pants. Nowadays, they have improved, but we’re still unconvinced that farmers hug all the cows before slashing their throats.

This time we’re travelling back to merry old 1978 where everyone in this advert seemed to be quite posh. Maybe McDonald’s wanted us to believe that people with class dined in their restaurants and not just scummy kids who’d steal the free straws, napkins and packets of sauce. Contain yourself, it’s after the jump…

First of all, we’ve never seen a fast food restaurant plonked so close to a river/canal/pond/ocean. Unless this is in a fancy area likes Cannes, then the idea of having floating McDonalds never really took off. The bloke on the jetski seems like he’d prefer to dine on deer and drinks dragon’s blood. But no, instead he chomps on the common person’s burger. Though we think he is comparing the lady in the advert to a Big Mac. The pervert.

So what is it about a Big Mac that keeps on making you come back? The child in the commercial seems to think it’s the sesame seed on top of the bun. If you’re reading this small child of the 70’s, it could be time to let you in on a little secret. It’s not the seeds. If the seeds are what kept you coming back, you’d probably retain some sort of normal body shape. Instead, 31 years later, there’s a good chance that all your return visits to McDonalds’s probably mean that you can no longer support your own weight and you constantly sweat processed cheese. That’s a lot of seeds.

McDonald’s also seemed to have crafted the world’s biggest burger for this advert. Couples, however, don’t seem to stop and stare at the giant mass of meat, bread and sauce that’s baring down in front of them, almost like a giant alien creature that’s coming to enslave the human race by inviting adults to gobble down its yummy exterior. Inside you’ll hear the distant moans of people who are trapped and fighting to get out.

The most hilarious thing of all is when the advert pulls to a shot of a McDonald’s drive thru. Subsequently, you’d assume that we’d see happy smiling families driving away with bags of food. Instead, we see people jogging past in nerdy-looking outfits. God bless you Mr Director, you really thought this through didn’t you?

Almost as successful as launching a range of salads. Oh.

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If you like watching episodes of 24 on DVD as much as we do then you probably haven’t seen daylight in a while.

And also, good news! Season 7 of 24 is released on October 19, and to mark this momentous occasion we’ve got five DVD boxsets to give away. That’s a whole day of shouting, explosions and torture to look forward to. And before you get all “Well actually it’s only 18 hours without commercials” on us, we’re counting the DVD special features as well, which are so good you’ll want to watch them for six hours. Probably.

The competition question is after the jump. God, we love 24…

To win one of the five 24 season 7 DVD boxsets we’re giving away, all you need to do is watch the season’s trailer below and answer a simple question:

QUESTION: How badly do you wish you were Jack Bauer?

To stand a chance of winning, email your answer and a contact address to Hello[at]hecklerspray.com with the subject line ‘So badly I just farted‘. The competition closes at midnight on October 19 when the winner will be chosen at random. UK readers only please.

24 Season 7 is out on DVD and Blu-ray now. DVD & Blu-ray Special Features include 14 Deleted Scenes, UK created featurette – ‘24 in 24’ (not on US version) behind the scenes footage, production details and 12 Audio Commentaries.

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You should sit down for this, because it’ll shock you to your very core: David Letterman had sex with a woman once.

Tell your friends. You may as well tell your friends, anyway, because it’s not like the information is worth anything now. A couple of days ago you could have got $2 million for possessing the information that David Letterman had sex with a woman once, but not any more. Not after some idiot bungled his extortion plot against Letterman and ended up getting charged with attempted grand larceny.

Still, though – David Letterman had sex with a woman once. Bleurgh.

Those late night talk shows will do anything for ratings, won’t they? It’s embarrassing, the lengths that they’ll go to to snare viewers. Why just last week Conan O’Brien smacked his head incredibly hard on a concrete floor, probably just because he wanted a few more people to watch his show. And Jay Leno actually touched Kanye West on the knee not so long ago, which is clearly the act of a man ravaged by desperation.

The worst offender in all of this, though, is David Letterman. There’s nothing he won’t do to get ratings. Earlier this year he told a funny joke about Sarah Palin, the bastard, and the ensuing brouhaha brought him more attention than he’s had in years. And let’s not forget that time he used mind control on his entire TV audience by moving his eyebrows around a bit. Really, that man is completely bloody shameless.

And just look what he’s doing for ratings now, the awful git. David Letterman had sex with one or more undisclosed women at some point over the course of the last 27 years, purely because he knew that one day someone would try and extort $2 million out of him because of it, leading to his show getting marginally increased viewing figures for a couple of days. The man’s an evil genius.

No, really, someone tried to extort $2 million out of David Letterman because he’s had sex with his employees in the past. We could go into details, but David Letterman did that himself on his show last night. Look…

The would-be extorter has been identified as a staffer on the CBS true-crime show 48 Hours, and in all likelihood the show is probably where he masterminded his devious, can’t lose plot to try and get millions of dollars out of a celebrity by threatening to tell the world that he did something that celebrities are generally quite famous for doing.

It’s too early to say what effect this saga will have on David Letterman’s position. Given his honesty and the fact that he was blackmailed for doing something that isn’t particularly serious, we imagine that he’ll be fine. But let’s take a look at YouTube to see what Letterman’s fans are saying about this:

“Letterman and his interns. Dirty geezer! What a pile of? scum.”

“It’s called KARMA Dave you liberal prick!”

“Was Obama there high fiving you Dave??”

Yeah, he’ll be fine.

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Jennifer Aniston has grown tired of promoting her movies with endless barbed attacks on Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

So she’s moved on. However, Jennifer Aniston isn’t one to rest on her laurels, so she’s spent months devising an even more effective way to publicise her new movie Love Happens. And it’s brilliant. Banging on about her ex-husband all the time might be annoying, you see, but it doesn’t actually cause physical pain. But singing a song on TV? Bingo! That’s both annoying and excruciating!

The video’s after the jump. That’s not a reminder – more a stark, stark warning.

We can’t predict the future, but it seems like a fair guess to say that Jennifer Aniston’s new movie Love Happens won’t do particularly well at the box office. This is for several reasons, all of which we’re about to list to you…

1 - It’s called Love Happens, a title so cloyingly twee that producers may as well have just replaced it with a picture of a kitten in a child’s wellington boot.

2 - It’s got Aaron Eckhart in it, and anybody who’s seen No Reservations will know that he won’t rest until he’s made the absolute worst romantic film in the history of the moving image.

3 - The Love Happens trailer makes us want to vomit into a boxing glove, then freeze the boxing glove, then punch ourselves unconscious with the frozen vomit boxing glove.

4 - Jennifer Aniston hasn’t been promoting it by bleating on about how sad she is about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and every single possible aspect of her personal life.

That last one’s important. Nobody went to see Marley & Me or He’s Just Not That Into You because they were good films – they endured them because they knew that if the movies failed then Jennifer Aniston wouldn’t get as many chances to whine about how crappy her life is to magazines in toe-curling detail. The more she moans, the more people feel obliged to watch her films.

But Jennifer Aniston hasn’t been whining about anything to promote Love Happens. She’s trying a different tactic. She’s singing. On television. To Ellen DeGeneres. Look…

Oh, we’re being harsh on Jennifer Aniston. To be fair, the singing wasn’t horrible and she was ambushed into doing it. It’s not like she’s got such a high opinion of her own singing ability that she’s making a new film where she plays a singing prisoner, is it? Because, come on, that would be ridiculous. Oh, what’s that, Jennifer Aniston in the video above in the preamble to the actual song?

“Yes! I will sing and play a dobro. It’s the story of the first female country and western band… I play one of the singers.”

Son of a bitch.

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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 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 jump…

We caught up with Pat Sharp and the Fun House twins at the launch of 1 vs. 100 on Xbox LIVE.

1 vs. 100 is the latest innovative experience to come to Xbox LIVE and is a fully interactive version of the hit TV quiz show with real prizes to be won. Xbox LIVE is the ever expanding world of the best entertainment spanning HD movies, music and games, and connects you to your friends wherever they are, all via your Xbox 360 console.

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Unless you’re Michael Jackson, Gary Glitter or Jonathan King the beginning of the advert for Dynamo Washing Powder won’t do much for you.

Last time we remembered, watching children taking their clothes off is just a little bit wrong.

But who are we to judge when we smother dog food across our genitals for some easy loving? Maybe there is a market for paedophile washing up powder. It’ll get those greasy stains right off. Even the white ones.

Because this is a South African advert, you’d assume that a South African person would do the voice over. Right? Apparently not in this case, as it seems the narrator is someone doing a crap impression of a German. The way he says “penetrate” is also quite worrying, perhaps he is a washed-up porn star.

Just to top the wrongness of this campaign off, the creators of this advert think a child wiggling their arse will make you buy it. We’d ask Michael if it did the trick for him, but you know, it’s a bit complicated.

Did you watch the last series of Ashes To Ashes? We didn’t.

We meant to but, you know, we forgot, and then when we finally did get round to watching an episode we didn’t really have a clue what was going on or anything. But luckily, a brand-new invention called ‘the DVD’ has just been launched, allowing you to watch entire TV series in one go. Plus you can smear peanut butter on them and they still work. According to Tomorrow’s World in like 1985 or something.

Anyway, the rather fabulous Ashes To Ashes series two DVD trailer is after the jump…

If you’ve seen Twilight, you’ll know that vampires are scrawny and sensitive and have big sad puppy eyes and are about as dangerous as a cotton wool statue of a kitten.

But judging by this new trailer for the forthcoming series of True Blood, that’s all a lot of rubbish. If this trailer is any indication, True Blood is a vampire show full of boobs, bottoms, bikinis, sexy dancing, orgasms, pelvic grinding, spanking, face-licking, nudity, masturbation, bestiality and enough sex scenes to literally turn you blind. In that order.

Honestly, it’s quite a trailer. It’s after the jump…

Professional movie director and sometime whore David Fincher has given humanity the gifts of Seven, Fight Club and keeping Jodie Foster locked in room for a long time.

Now with the launch of the new iPhone, his latest gift is a sharp new advert for the product that needs no advertising. Yes Fincher has directed himself a new iPhone advert – the product everybody has because it’s the best thing to ever happen to Earth, the universe and everything in it! – That’ll make the heartbreak of losing out on the Oscar less bitter Fincher.

David, though, is a director of class and prestige, surely he could direct someone to KFC and it would be done so with an outstanding style and panache not seen before? Alternatively he could guff, watch Mission Impossible and just say “Do that”.

Looks like the latter.

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When news broke that Cleveland from Family Guy was getting a spin off show, it caused a flurry of reactions.

Some thought that the idea would suck donkey balls whilst others embraced the decision to make Seth McFarlane a little bit richer.

After months of speculation about this project ever seeing the light of day, a trailer has popped up for us to laugh at or complain about. Do we have the promo embedded in this story? Of course we do, and after the jump you’ll be able to watch it! That’s unless you’ve probably already seen it somewhere else.

Of course, the trailer wouldn’t be complete with something semi-offensive for people to complain about. Hooray for comedy racism but it’ll no doubt shake the leaves of people who have been removed of a sense of humour.

Using our rubbish powers of observation, not having much information to go on other then this trailer and without cheating via looking things up on Wikipedia we have concluded that:

* Cleveland leaves Farmington, will realise it’s shit and then probably come back. Though this might not happen until people complain the spin-off is rubbish and affects the main show.

* A talking bear won’t bother anyone into thinking things are slightly surreal.

* The fat child will already have pages of abusive jokes written about him.

* It’s quite likely they’ll be no explanation as to who Cleveland’s new family is.

* The Cleveland Brown show won’t be as popular as Family Guy.

* Quagmire will try and shag the teenage daughter that Cleveland is living with at some point.

* There’ll be a giant chicken fight at some point.

However, we do notice something strange at the very end of the trailer. We’re told that the series isn’t going to premire until ‘this fall’. Are our American chums being cruel and waiting for some high powered Fox executive to fall over before showing it? Who do they want to fall over? Why are we so confused? The creators of the show are quite literally holding us to ransom until we wait for someone to trip up or fall over.

Shocking.

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Hecklerspray’s been around for a while now, so we’ve seen our fair share of decent videos.

This one, however, knocks them all out of the park. Sent to us by Guinness World Records, it combines the two things we love more than anything – unwitting future hecklerspray wife Konnie Huq and a man stuffing so many maggots into his mouth that he ends up vomiting everywhere. Frankly Konnie Huq alone would have been OK, but who’d turn down maggot vomit?

Oh, and Steve Jones is in the video too, in case you’re an idiot or hate life. After the jump…

This isn’t so much a crap commercial where an advertiser thought of the idea ten seconds before the pitch.

It’s just really annoying and pointless really and we don’t understand what it does to promote slabs of chocolate.

Whilst we get slight amusement at laughing at two stupid-looking children with some sort of facial deformity, it gets boring after a while. In the future, the childstars will develop a sense of dred after being recognised when being let out in public.

They’ll also grow to hate their parents after finding out they let them appear in the advert for £50 and a year’s supply of Wispa bars each.

Perhaps their tongues should have gone mental, not their eyebrows. After all, we eat with our mouths and not our facial hair. Well, there was that once.

Hecklerspray has a quick test for you. Try saying the words ‘seal cull hunt’ three times very quickly without using the c-word.

It’s not easy is it? Well, it certainly wasn’t for one poor newsreader on Sky last weekend, who dropped a major clanger by mentioning the c-word live on air during a story about Canada’s annual seal cull. When describing the clubbing to death of seals, he accidentally lets it slip – quite forcibly – what he really thinks about people who cull seals.

Or maybe he just doesn’t like Canadians…or maybe it’s the seals he thinks are cunts.

Anyway, it somehow managed to make a very serious topic into a funny one. Well, they do say Sky are dumbing down the news.

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