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Archiving Podcasts
This week, it was announced that WTF with Marc Maron would be ending its run after 16 years. The show will end sometime in the autumn (aka ‘fall’) having produced more than 1,600 episodes over that time. Maron’s podcast was one of the big early titles, and it’s fair to say that although Maron was…
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Marco Pantani
This is pretty shocking news for any lovers of cycling.
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Crap Television
I really really really hate it when people like Mark Lawson start talking about the shared experience that is tat like Footballer’s Wives. Can I just reiterate something – it’s not that popular! I know that some in the media don’t like to believe it, but the final episode in the last series had an…
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Top Up TV
What a profoundly stupid idea this is! That’s probably a little extreme and unfair, but nonetheless, this’ll be dead in the water in no time – of that I’m sure. The idea is that subsribers can pay 7.99 a month to get a handful of additional channels. The website lists the 10 channels included in…
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Eastern Standard Tribe
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Am I Missing Something?
So let me be clear about this. I can pay a significant amount of money to see a bunch of adverts that were aired free to air to most of America last weekend. Why? The only one worth watching is surely this one.
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Morricone
I’ve moved onto Ennio Morricone at the moment – since I finally worked out that the theme music to the hit and miss Nighty Night is from the soundtrack to My Name Is Nobody. Morricone is one of my favourite composers, with the soundtrack album to The Mission being one of my favourite pieces of…
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Tanner ’88
US TV viewers sometimes don’t realise how lucky they are. Tanner ’88 is being repeated, with new introductions by Robert Altman and Gary Trudeau on the Sundance Channel. Regular visitors will know that I loved this series. Maybe someday those episodes with their new introduction will find their way onto DVD. One point I should…
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Francoise Hardy
Today, I seem to have been travelling around with a background of Francoise Hardy. What brought this on? Well I was watching the disappointingly poor Sea of Souls on telly last night, and frankly, by the end I was channel surfing. You really know that a supposedly thrilling drama hasn’t grabbed you if you’re seeing…
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A Good Week for Ryanair
Ryanair rightly lost their case against disabled passengers who needed weelchairs to get them to the planes. Then they issued a profits warning resulting in their shares taking a nosedive. They’re reported as charging their own staff for such things as uniforms. Finally, today the long awaited judgement from the EU was made. Broadly speaking,…
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Absolute Power Episode Dropped
Surely not! Just suppose Have I Got News was on air at the moment.
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Terrorists – They’re Everywhere
Would you want to live in a country where they could arrest you, lock you up, and never put you on trial for any offense? Or maybe if there was a trial, it’d be before a single judge and held secretly? Welcome to the UK under Blunkett. Incidentally, would Lord Hutton have been one of…
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