There’s nothing worse than yet another lockdown Netflix list. Sons Of Anarchy Heard about this series from Linux Outlaws many years ago. Jax Teller is a very handsome man. I am convinced he is the bastard son of Kurt Cobain and Brad Pitt. A decent series about biker gangs in California that inevitably features gratuitous violence and goes through peaks and troughs (the season when they went to Ireland was very weak)....
‘Is this Grimm ?’ ‘No’ ‘Adventures of New Grimm ?’ ‘No’ ‘New adventures of Grimm ?’ ‘No’ ‘New: Adventures of New Grimm ?’ ‘Yes’ ‘Is this a repeat ?’ ‘No’
I really enjoyed this comedy co-written by Steve Coogan. The opening sequence features Coogan struggling to keep his calm in an ‘Anger Management’ course and is always hilarious. Unfortunately, the final episode of the series was on Monday night but, no doubt, it will be endlessly repeated on BBC3 in the near future.
On message boards and blogs around the interweb, fans of the TV series ‘Lost’ are discussing the many, different storylines speculating about what is actually going on and proposing far fetched theories. One such undercurrent is the periodic entry of a secret code ‘4 8 15 16 23 42’ into a computer located in an underground bunker. People want to know what will happen if the code is not entered....
The Armstrongs is a BBC2 fly on the wall documentary about a small, family owned double glazing company in Coventry. While this subject doesn’t sound too inspiring, the program is absolutely hilarious. Last week, the husband and wife owners travelled to France in an attempt to diversify and increase dwindling sales. Amazingly, they chose to translate their business proposition using Babelfish which may be adequate for children’s homework but resulted in an unfortunate translation of ‘conservatory’ to ‘music academy’....
One of the candidates on BBC2’s ‘The Apprentice’ is a ‘management consultant’. He was very keen and virtually begged to be allowed to do the sales pitch on this week’s show. ‘Please, let me do the pitch. This is what I do. I am world class. There is no-one better.’ And then, in his sharp suit and with his short haircut, he opened his stilted, stuttering, unrehearsed, nerve-ridden pitch to various hard nosed businessmen (about a charity calendar for Great Ormond Street Hospital) with the immortal words....
‘Most Haunted’ is a fantastic TV program hosted by Yvette Fielding, where a Liverpudlian psychic medium, Derek Acorah, visits haunted properties resurrecting the spirits of dear, dead departed souls. The program is notable for absolutely superb acting by Acorah who can fulfil a variety of roles, effortlessly adopting the voice of tortured, Victorian ladies, in pitch darkness, without the aid of a script. The supporting actors (Fielding and the camera crew) are also superb....
The BBC have a program called ‘Pay off your mortgage in 2 years’. Tonight’s episode featured a couple from Cornwall with a mortgage of 90,000 GBP. The program is moderately interesting for the various ideas people come up with to earn extra income (not for the scrimping, living off baked beans and giving up alcohol). However, the program is spoiled by some very basic flaws. Firstly, any extra income seems to be tax-free....
What would you do with 1 million GBP ? Would you buy a mansion, a yacht and a Ferrari, give up your job, go on holiday, donate it all to charity, buy your parents a new house, take over your local football club or get U2 to play at your son’s birthday party ? Don’t worry - I haven’t succumbed to the lure of ‘1001 subjects to blog about’ for people with vacuous brains....
There was an interesting program on ITV last night called The Shot That Shook The World about photographs of historic moments. 9/11 Mesmeric, tragic, horrific and yet somehow those images are always compelling. I guess this was the JFK moment for my generation where everyone can remember exactly where they were and what they were doing. I was working for a small Internet company and a colleague was idly surfing and memorably announced ‘A plane has just hit the World Trade Centre’....