Great story on the BBC News website today, headlined:
“Actress Windsor Quits EastEnders”
The headline says it all – Barbara Windsor is to quit her role as Peggy Mitchell in the soap in 2010, after 16 years playing the woman with the dodgiest wig this side of Dame Edna.
In the article, Babs clearly says she is LEAVING. [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 28, 2009
The Ideal Radio Station? Really?
Radio Afghanistan, part of the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS), started this week.
Journopig One has fond memories of BFBS, having grown up on an army base in Germany, but the service seems to have changed a bit. Whether it’s for the better or not is a subjective issue.
The Guardian, for example, seems to think it’s [...]
October 26, 2009
X Factor: Breaking The Copycat Rules
Maggie Brown, on the front page of today’s MediaGuardian section of The Guardian, writes at length about The X Factor.
Yes, you wouldn’t have thought the programme needed another article written about it, would you?
Maggie’s hook for the piece is the fact that TV bod Alan Boyd has shown her the original notes he made on [...]
October 26, 2009
The Most Shocking Story About Katie Price, Ever*
Great story in the Sunday Mirror (25 October) about model-”writer”-whatever Katie Price, which is deemed so important that it runs over pages one, nine, 26 and 27.
Apparently, she’s so desperate not to lose her youthful looks that she’s going to extreme lengths, and in the process, losing those looks.
But what’s one of the examples that [...]
October 22, 2009
Having Five Husbands Does Not An Interesting Programme Make
The Bigamist Bride: My Five Husbands (Channel 4, 22 October) was a strange affair – as, indeed, were many of those experienced by serial bigamist Emily Horne, the focus of the programme.
The tone for the documentary was set when Emily, proudly – sometimes defiantly – describing her multiple relationships to the camera, said of one [...]
October 20, 2009
The Flying Car: Who Gives A Flying … ?
Documentaries aren’t what they once were. Perhaps all the genuinely interesting deeds and people have already had programmes made about them, leaving programme-makers to resort to boring or frankly rather second-rate subjects.
How else to explain The Flying Car on Channel 4 tonight?
Two men – young and posh Gilo in his cuddly Scandanavian jumper, and his [...]
October 20, 2009
No Verisimilitude With Versailles
BBC News. Home to authoritative domestic and international news coverage. It covers the important issues of the day, ensuring its audience knows the vital facts.
Doesn’t it?
Not judging by a bizarre story published yesterday.
Admittedly, it was in the Hampshire section of English news stories, and not on the news homepage or anything, but surely Hampshire has [...]
October 18, 2009
Harry Makes Us Laugh For The First Time In Years
A sad story on the BBC News website today. Well, sad if you’re Harry Enfield.
The, ahem, “comedian” has had his jokes stolen.
Apparently, ideas for his new comedy series with Paul Whitehouse, due to air next year, were on his laptop – which was then stolen from his wife’s car.
Now, in our humble opinion, it is [...]
October 17, 2009
Edgar Allan Poe, Eat Your Heart Out. Metaphorically Speaking.
With it coming up to Hallowe’en, the Los Angeles Times is carrying an appropriately ghoulish story on its website today.
For a week, residents living in Marina del Rey, California, noticed an unusual Hallowe’en decoration placed in a flat’s balcony for all to see.
It looked like a dummy sitting in a chair, and someone had gone [...]
October 12, 2009
Follow Your Instincts, Myleene!
Omnipresent Myleene Klass has been wittering about how she once had a drink before hosting the Richard & Judy show (deceased) on Channel 4, which apparently wasn’t a good idea.
Myleene – quoted in The Guardian’s fab Media Monkey section – states:
“I can remember thinking, ‘I am never doing this again.’”
Unfortunately, we think she was only [...]
