Friday, 15 June 2007

...that many pools, eh?

BBC NEWS | UK | TVs 'dumped after digital switch': "Eight million machines - enough to fill 100 Olympic swimming pools - will be ditched, according to the poll of 2,500 UK adults."

A bizarre day for TV and swimming pools indeed...

from BBC News website currently:
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Friday, 1 June 2007

Blog brother - spot on, elywhitely!

Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - TV & radio: Big Brother: once again, a show cast for exhibitionism and division:

elywhitely

Comment No. 536396

May 31 9:52
Luton/gbr

when the twins went in I thought, 'ah well, they've got the brainless teenage screamers out of the way, now for some interesting characters.' And so it continued,'oh... well then that's the wannabe WAG sorted... and so on." Before you could say "oh my god!" it was over and we were left with the world's best organised slumber party. I almost expect Freddie Kruger to be the male introduced on Friday so this teen flick can get started proper.
Tracey seems to be the only genuinely interesting person in spite of her need to speak fluent Bez and make hands signals like a bookie using binary code. Everyone else, even the 'kick ass earth mother' who looks like she should be from Eastwick rather than East London, will turn out to be just another boring person who made a bucketload of outrageous claims to the interview camera to get on the show. They all shout and pout on their tapes, "I'm mental I am!", "Oh, my god you've never seen anything like me before!", "I'm a man-eating psycho lesbian from the future and clothes make me ill so I tend to use decapitation as a defense mechanism!" and once inside those garish walls it's all, "Are there any more tea bags?" and "Who left the toilet seat up?