The Independent (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Alan Carr steps smartly across London's Soho Square with his helmet in his hand. The royal blue item of bicycling equipment is not a prop for a risqué gag but rather a symbol of his intention to get fit by pedallling around the capital.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
As unlikely as it sounds there's strong evidence that some sections of the audience relish tedium. Or – to put it in a way that may be more sympathetic – they fear unpredictablity and excitement, with a phobia so instinctive that they will only watch programmes that are guaranteed to be exactly the same, not just from series to series but from one five minutes to the next.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Channel 4 has begun quietly sounding out potential successors to Andy Duncan, its chief executive, increasing speculation that he may step down later this year.
memoirs on a rainy day (Free subscription) | yesterday
The HM are doing the shopping list. Sree is supposed to calculate stuff, but he’s being a git again. Marcus is not having it. Sree complains to some HM in the garden. They tell him to talk to Marcus, but he doesn’t. Marcus also called him a girl. Daily Show Sree continues to complain to Lisa when [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
• Man says firefighters took too long to reach family • Service says crews arrived within five minutes A man whose wife and two children died in the fire that swept through a London tower block on Friday has criticised the emergency services for taking two and a half hours to reach his family. Another resident has also claimed the fire brigade did not immediately use their ladders to reach...
Reviewed at Random (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
WARNING: The following review contains very explicit images of animal viscera. If you are not comfortable with this STOP NOW. If you are scroll down for the article. You could be very much forgiven for thinking that this show is the latest in a long line of channel 4’s exploitation programming, we have had sex, gore and human dissection, where do we go from here? Well you are wrong. The show...
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | yesterday
Obviously, people flogging off 'souvenir' issues of their magazines are doing nicely from the timely departure of Michael Jackson - in the sense of filling up the quiet summer lull. Leading the pack has been OK!, whose 'tribute' issue led with a photo of Jacko on a gurney, minutes from death, that Richard Desmond paid thousands and thousands for. Scrabbling about throwing cash so you can reward photographers...
BitsBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Word from Channel 4 (NBC) in the DC area D.C. councilman and former mayor Marion Barry was arrested Saturday night and charged with stalking a woman, police said. The United States Park Police said Barry was arrested in Washington after a woman flagged down an officer and complained that Barry was stalking her. Barry was charged with misdemeanor stalking [...]
Aston Martin Rust Oration (Free subscription) | yesterday
Caught a programme on Channel 4 on friday evening – about personalised number plates. Two sorry looking characters called Nigel – one with a plate N2GEL on a boring looking Merc, the other with N1GEL on a yellow Lambo. Never having really appreciated being called Nigel – the last thing I would want is it on [...]
Click opera (Free subscription) | yesterday
The death of German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch on Tuesday struck me harder than the death of Michael Jackson. She was someone incredibly cool, beautiful and talented, someone I'd followed and admired over the years. I never queued for Michael Jackson concert tickets, but I did queue for Pina Bausch returns at the Paris Opera in February 1991, and when a few precious second-row box seats for...
takingthestrain (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am in a dilemma. I got turned down for a promotion at work the other day. I went for a job that in all honesty I didn't really want. I shouldn't have been particularly disappointed , then, when I didn't get it. It was a small raise in pay for a considerable raise in responsibility and work, and whilst it would have been nice to have something different to do it was in no way disastrous that I didn't...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
ON THIN ICE BBC2 Sunday 9pm THE MADOFF HUSTLE BBC2 Sunday, 7pm INSIDE NATURE'S GIANTS Channel 4 Monday, 9pm
Elginism (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
In 1985, film director Christopher Miles (who is also now a member of the Marbles Reunited campaign) made a film about the Parthenon Marbles. The film was shown on Channel 4, but there have also been private viewings of it at the Houses of Parliament & Greenwich University in the last few years. Thoroughly researched, the [...]
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
According to the Channel 4 website: "Coming ashore on the west coast of Ireland, where the remains of 10,000 shipwrecks litter the shore, Bear...
goGlider.com (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
BBC NewsNBC Takes Its Time Showing Murray-Roddick SemifinalNew York TimesNoon still wasn't the Roddick-Murray start time; NBC treated the semifinal as if it hadn't already started and fans inhabited the same tape-delayed vacuum ...We've accepted the fact that we won't see Roddick-Murray liveYahoo! SportsLive - WimbledonBBC SportWimbledon Semifinals Wrecked For You By NBC (Again)The Business InsiderWall...
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