The Guardian investigates if The X Factor is killing music , and naturally, a call to HMV's Factor factotum is required: In a further innovation this year, the Sunday results show has been built around other artists promoting their own singles, leading to a previously unforeseen scale of chart dominance. "In an age when there are very few truly mass-audience platforms left, the X Factor has become...
Barclays and HSBC posted upbeat results today and the question everyone wants to know is, “Does this mean the recession is over?” No, stuff that! The question everyone really wants to know is whether or not they will be paying bonuses, bankers remuneration having joined paedophilia and X-factor as a national obsession. Both banks are understandably being cagey about how [...]
BBC’s Top Gear, known for attracting controversy, is being criticized by television watchdog Ofcom for showing scenes of a man committing suicide before 9 p.m. watershed. Ofcom said that Top Gear had breached broadcasting regulations that aim at protecting children from violence by airing a spoof of a Volkswagen advert in which man shoots himself [...]
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STAR TREK ONLINE: According to a post at Eurogamer, Atari and Cryptic have confirmed February, 2010 as the debut date for STAR TREK ONLINE. It seems almost unbelievable that a Star Trek-based MMO will finally be released in just a few short months. When I launched gamebunny back in 2001, a Trek MMO was rumored and [...]
Why can't UK television drama compete with the best of the American shows? Thriller writer Peter Jukes has written an angry piece for Prospect about why British TV has lost its way so badly that it could never hope to produce a series like The Wire . It's familiar but still interesting stuff. The breakup of the old US network cartel and competition from cable channels such as HBO has been good for...
Nell Scovell, one of a handful of women who has ever worked as a comedy writer for David Letterman — or any of the late night comic talk shows — contends that an atmosphere of sexual harassment routinely exists on those shows: Without naming names or digging up decades-old dirt, let’s address the pertinent questions. Did [...]
One day on from news that Simon Cowell is to investigate stories that X Factor’s ‘Bronze Age Will Young’ Danyl Johnson has been mean to Stacey Solomon, comes news of a living hell
I don't want to harp on about Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time, after all that is the only thing the mainstream media can talk about, but I did want to draw attention to this page on Channel Four's website . They have fact-checked the BNP's pronouncements on the programme and concluded like the rest of us that he was being economical with the actualité: the claim "Guided tours...
Two notes on chairs. Michael Green is the new Lucasian chair of Mathematics replacing the esteemed Stephen Hawking. Green helped sparked the great optimism in string theory by discovering with John Schwarz the Green-Schwarz anomaly cancellation mechanism . Elsewhere, the Perimeter Institute has named ten new distinguished research chairs , among them a host of the quantum computing afflicted: Dorit...
I have a confession to make: I hate Star Trek. Let me clarify: when I was young — I'm dating myself here — I quite liked the original TV series. But when the movie-length trailer for ST:TNG first aired in...
Oy, a grunk un a schlunk, bedetz! It's another move towards taking over the world. A somewhat Jewish person, Haim Saban, is bidding to buy half of the Al-Jazeera satellite network. Hmmm... I wonder if I could interest him in...
Surely you didn't think I'd let the Letterman situation go unchecked, did you? If you've lived in a hole for the past week, you missed the disclosure by David Letterman that he's had relationships with several women who have been...
Sunny and others have argued that Anton Du Beke should not be sacked, because he apologised for the use of ‘Paki’, and because it wasn’t meant in a malicious way. I have some sympathy for the latter, but what most people seem to have missed is that Mr. Du Beke did not apologise. He issued [...]
Today the BBC told the Telegraph that an "unnamed producer" was responsible for an outburst of swearing on yesterday's Morning Reports on Radio Five Live. I noted yesterday that a couple of tweets suggested that the racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght was to blame. Compare the f-bomb clip with the one of Cornelius Lysaght taken from Radio Five Live today. Is it the same person? If it is...
