I'll be first for BB7 news
It goes without saying that the misfits, freaks and weirdos assembled for the seventh season of Big Brother are going to outdo all the previous contestants. Within the first 24 hours, we’ve had a taste of what’s to come with the behaviour of Nikki – a woman who refuses to drink tap water ("tap wartahh")and screams that she’s become a tramp because she hasn’t been able to change her clothes since yesterday. Although a number of the women on the show may qualify as tramps, I fear it has little to do with the lack of a suitcase. The men are no better, of course. Preening and self-obsessed, they represent about as typical a cross-section of society as the members of a peripatetic circus troupe.

Yes, it looks like an awful lot of fun. I’ll keep you posted with my thoughts on phil.com/philblog. Unless the World Cup gets too exciting.

05.20.06 @ 02:28 PM PDT [link]

Alan, Joanna and Martin are on the edge
Greatly enjoyed the latest episode of Green Wing and the wonderfully brave decision to create a second literal cliff-hanger, with three key members of the cast perched precariously over the ocean in a camper van. At the end of the last season, the same scenario had been played out with an ambulance. As Karl Marx once observed in the Eighteenth Brumaire, the great events of history have a habit of repeating themselves: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. I’m not sure what he would have made of radiologist Alan Statham though.

05.20.06 @ 02:26 PM PDT [link]

Green Wing revisited
When you're married with kids, Green Wing is the most fun you can ever hope to have on a Friday night. For those of you who've missed out, here's the latest:

Crazy counsellor Sue White believes herself to be carrying Mac's child following his unwitting donation of sperm during a coma. This is too much for Dr Caroline Todd, who's head over heels in love with Mac, but has been flirting hopelessly with the 'Spaghetti Man' and also Dr Guy Secretan (described on the BBC America site as an anaesthesiologist, which I think is the American word for gasman.) Consultant Radiologist Alan Statham, who's murdered a dwarf stuntman hired by his former lover, is going increasingly bonkers. So bonkers, in fact, that he's now reunited with his ex... even though she's known to have slept with her son, Dr Secretan.

Good. You won't be confused now if it's on when you go round to a friend's house.


05.14.06 @ 04:23 PM PDT [link]

Jack Bauer on Sky One
I gave up watching 24 a little while back. Partly because it's addictive. Partly because I thought all the torture scenes were getting a bit out of hand. Mrs W still watches though and every so often, I find myself getting hooked again. Tonight, our hero was trying to rescue a kidnapped child from a bunch of murderous terrorists. Patch that satellite image of the warehouse through to his PDA, Chloe, for pity's sake! He's going in!
05.14.06 @ 04:12 PM PDT [link]