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Reviving Dead Horses, Or, Red Dwarf And The Fast Show Return

by Kris Silver on September 7, 2011 0 Comments

It’s official! Comedy has finally run out of new ideas for TV shows and has decided to revive comedy staples from the 90s. Hurray for progress!

It seems that, with My Family now coming to an end, we’ll all have to find something vaguely funny to show in its place…

…not that My Family was that funny to begin with mind.

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BBC To Kill Someone Live On TV… Or Something

by Kris Silver on April 27, 2011 0 Comments

The BBC isn’t really known for being too daring with its programming. After all, that’s not really what dear old Auntie is about, is it? The Beeb is there to provide us with banal, safe and somewhat beige programming like My Family or Songs of Praise.

Although there is the odd foray into the risqué, which takes the form of some tripe that’s written by Susan Nickson of Two Pints of Lager & A Packet of Crisps/Grown Ups/Coming of Age fame. You know, those shows that are so bad that even the trailers aren’t funny.

But the BBC has taken the brave choice of broadcasting someone’s death on national television.

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Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is

by Chris Laverty on February 5, 2010 1 Comment

This week’s good and bad for oh-so-fun February.

Folded:

Creased:

  • Feeling stupid for bad-mouthing Avatar after that first trailer came out (good job no-one was listening)
  • Why does deodorant smell really nice when you first start using it then goes all gassy by the end? (it’s a mystery is what it is)
  • Coming of Age (either we’re too old for this or it’s too damn terrible)
  • Running an iPod Touch for a week without something going wrong (wi-fi goes loopy, apps vanish and the back gets all smudgy)
  • Ted Mosby (this character has no redeeming features whatsoever. Even Matthew in Game On is less of a self-important twit)