True Blood Season 5 Episode 1: Turn! Turn! Turn!
True Blood season 5 started on Monday night on FX and you can call it a lot of things but subtle isn’t one of them. Full of sex, blood and creative swearing it’s still not for the faint hearted.Read on...
View ArticleThe X Factor Blog: End of Auditions
It's the last of the auditions this week; they seem to have gone on forever this year, so we end on another double episode full of men fawning over Tulisa, a new tactic to get noticed and Bianca...
View ArticleThe X Factor Blog: Boot Camp- 72 Hours of Clichés
Let’s welcome Nicole Schenziger back to the panel full time. Anyone who’s been saying she should be dropped in favour of Mel B are crazy. Give her a chance, she hasn’t done anything yet. Mel B had that...
View ArticleThe X Factor Blog: Holiday Time at Judges' Houses
It’s Judges’ Houses this week, where Dermot gets to go on 4 holidays in quick succession. Louis is in Las Vegas with Sharon Osbourne and her unmovable face, Nicole and Ne-Yo are in Dubai, Tulisa’s vile...
View ArticleThe X Factor Blog: Live Shows. Is That Your Final Answer Louis?
Full disclosure; thank goodness the X Factor results show was exactly like it was. Louis dithering, Garyis outraged and the worse singer is saved at the expense of a better, but more forgettable one....
View ArticleThe X Factor Results Week 2 Live Blog
This might not work, but welcome to some live blogging on the X Factor Results Show! Because there aren't enough opinions on the X Factor out there. Nicole is way too classy to point, and Gary only...
View ArticleThe X Factor Blog: Gary Barlow and The Overs and Out
So Melanie left in the second sing off of the series. Does anyone care? She was a good singer but never really threatened the competition. By this rate Gary’s work will be over in a few weeks. Kye had...
View ArticleThe X Factor Blog: Battle of the Cheeses and The Scottish Widow in Nightmare...
Not a bad live show, this one. Here are some observations.It contained "The Greatest Dermot Intro... Ever!" The shimmying was of the highest standard, and the editing was brilliant. We also had The...
View ArticleThe X Factor Blog: X Factor Does (Very Little for) Halloween
It was pretty dull affair this week after the enjoyable Club Classics show. No Lucy Spraggan performance as she pulled a “Diana Vickers” and was off sick. She was put through to next week at the...
View ArticleStrictly Come Dancing: Upping The Production Values For Halloween.
Saturday night TV is always the biggest night of the week and Strictly Come Dancing Vs the X Factor has been going on for years. X Factor has had a lead over its BBC rival for a little while but the...
View ArticleThe X Factor Results Live Blog Week 4
Week 5 and yet another live blog for the X Factor results show. Who will leave and will there be another DEADLOCK? (Probably.)They are all the same height... I've never noticed that before.8.56: "I was...
View ArticleThe X Factor Blog: Apparently It's Number Ones Week
The theme this week was Number Ones, but really it was sing whatever song you want I'm sure it was number one in Bosnia and Herzegovina once. Honestly it was a bit tedious. Lucy Spraggen was too ill to...
View ArticleThe X Factor Blog: Rylan Spices Up The X Factor
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I hate mash-ups. But a Spice Girl medley?? I’ll take it! Before we get to Rylan and his best performance so far, we had the judges trying to stick up for...
View ArticleThe X Factor Blog: Everyone Loves The Drama Apart From Tulisa Who Blames Us
So in Guilty Pleasures week Ella, one of the favourites, leaves. The UK has a collective fit, people scream fix and Twitter has a meltdown. In one of the biggest shocks in X Factor history two of the...
View ArticleThe X Factor Blog: Normal Service Resumed
It was coming, we all knew it; Rylan has left the X Factor. Love him or loathe him we all ended up talking about him. I really enjoyed some of his performances, but it was the banter with Gary that I...
View ArticleThe X Factor Blog: Of Course Union J Went
There’s light at the end of the tunnel, we are nearly at the end of what feels like the longest X Factor ever. There will be a post mortem, no doubt, but for now let’s see how obvious this semi final...
View ArticleThe X Factor Blog: The Final Countdown
After endless hours of tiresome cliches, dull contestants and Louis Walsh's ever changing hair we have finally made it to the end. In what was of the longest weekends of our lives, (2 hours on Saturday...
View ArticleMy Year In TV 2012: Byrd, Baker Street and Big Red Balls
My Year in TV contains basically a hell of a lot of reality TV, a Judge, a game show I thought I'd fallen out of love with and everyone's favourite fictional detective. Oh, and zombies. And throw in a...
View ArticleIs Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway the Best Thing On Television?
While watching Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway last night I felt like I had been thrown back about 15 years. Yes, partly because we were treated to a performance from PJ & Duncan (there's...
View ArticleYes, The Apprentice is better than last year but is that enough?
I mean, come on. Did he think no one would mention his eyebrows?The Apprentice was back this week with a double episode, more ridiculous sound bites and a grumpier than ever Lord Sugar. So nothing new...
View ArticleSorting Out The X Factor
So the judges merry-go round on the X Factor has finally finished, and with Mrs O back in the hot seat it seems to have come full circle. So I've decided to throw out some ideas on what has been wrong...
View ArticleSo, we're just going to let the egg thrower be the main talking point on BGT...
Britain's Got Talent is over for another year, a Hungarian act won but a stage invasion dominated the headlines. To be fair, the final was all a bit dull in the end. Too many kids, too many singers and...
View ArticleI'm Kinda Excited About Doctor Who Again
While I was intrigued as the next casual viewer about the appointment of the new Doctor I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. I saw the rumours but never thought they'd be an actual chance Peter...
View ArticleSherlock series 3 has come and gone and we are still left wanting more.
So within the space of 10 days we have gorged on Sherlock and are left with nothing. Nothing but a feeling that we kinda want a little bit more. With everyone wanting to know how Sherlock survived his...
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