Television program ‘A Place in the Sun’ has bright young English girl, Amanda Lamb, showing a middle-aged man around Fuerteventura. No, it’s not an expose about an overseas escort service, it’s the latest chance to see a punter being dragged around some quickly thrown up, overpriced, Spanish holiday homes before politely declining the opportunity to [...]
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Manure
September 4th, 2010 · No Comments · News Around, Unlikely Reviews
A foul smell detected in parts of England and Wales is being blamed on easterly winds bringing farming or industrial smells across the Channel.
Labelled “Euro-whiff” by the Met Office, the source of the smell – alternately described as sulphur and manure – is under investigation.
But these pages can exclusively reveal that the hideous stink [...]
Tags: chris de burgh·foul·lady in red·smell
The Apprentice
September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Unlikely Reviews
‘The Apprentice’ is nearly getting exciting again.
Sir Alan Sugar strides through double doors into the boardroom where a bunch of young people with no business experience and few life skills sit nervously waiting for him to deliver his decision.
It’s a bit like that bit in ‘Star Wars’ where Darth Vader asks his crew why [...]
Poor show
August 29th, 2010 · No Comments · News Around, Unlikely Reviews
It is with regret that these pages confirm that the English TV Show “‘Allo, ‘allo” has been sold to the Germans and will be broadcast and dubbed into German in its entirety.
How will Officer Crabtree be in the German version, with his mangled French, “Good Moaning” ?
How often did we laugh at that? No, [...]
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Open sauce
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Hearsay and Gossip, Unlikely Reviews
These pages can exclusively reveal that a new game show is being produced by the BBC. It will have a ten minute timeslot, just before the 6 o’clock News and be hosted by a top TV star, maybe even Adrian Chiles. Members of the public can challenge leaders of industry in “Openly Embarrassed”.
Each evening a [...]
Tags: bbc·new tv show·packaging
Britney beats Stalin
August 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Hearsay and Gossip, Unlikely Reviews
I see that the MSN News page is having a ‘Battle of the Stars’ so that we can vote on which celebrities we hate the most.
Here are some of the current ratings:
Britney Spears 81%
Heather Mills 80%
Michael Jackson 77%
Lindsay Lohan 74%
Paris Hilton 72%
Naomi Campbell 71%
Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Stalin) 1%
That man off the Myspace page (Tom) 1%
I’m not [...]
Tags: britney spears·heather mills·lindsay lohan·michael jackson·naomi campbell·paris hilton·stalin·Tom