Queen and Top Gear in weird merged moment
On the run up to a new series of Top Gear the more hardcore fans loitering on the Final Gear forums start to get a little bit strange, suffering from withdrawal and desperation.
OK we’re not THAT bad, we do know it’s only a TV show but there are also only so many times you can watch the same shows over and over and over again. Read more
SeeSaw gets premium comedy shows
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Where can you find South Park, Only Fools and Horses, The IT Crowd, The Thick of It, Summer Heights High, Man To Man, Lab Rats and many more great comedies all in one place? Read more
Is embarrassing parents TG video viral?
Not long ago in my first Top Gear series 15 preview post I included a video of some very embarrassing parents shouting about Top Gear as they passed the presenter in their car on the motorway.
The Top Gear presenters were driving cars turned into caravans – something we’ll see in the new series – starting June 27th. Read more
No more music on my iPod thanks to Spotify
I’ve had ‘the middle’ iPod in one form or another since the first iPod Mini was released in 2004.
And ever since, from the very beginning of my iPod ownership life, music and speech have been fighting for dominance of the limited space. Read more
Diet Diary: Starting all over again
I’ve got a bet with my wife – she doesn’t think I’ll be able to lose two stone by our anniversary at the end of August and I’m adamant I can.
When I was at school I was always a bit chubby, then when I left school and started working I lost weight bery quickly, possibly too much at one point – but then when I moved to Jersey and got married it piled on. Read more
Top Gear set for Sunday 27 June return
It’s that time of year again, the time when everyone at work gets completely bored with me and when I spend every Sunday evening talking about TV on a message board.
It’s been officially announced by Top Gear Magazine and the BBC Press Office that everyone’s favourite entertainment show with an affiliation to motoring will return on Sunday 27 June at 8pm. Read more
New look Glasto site makes use of 6music names
Every year the BBC relaunches its website for one of the major festivals it covers or, in the case of the Big Weekend – hosts.
The latest site to get this treatment is the Glastonbury festival, normally I wouldn’t blog about this but, unlike the others there are a number of things of note. Read more
Google gets all arty with its homepage
Google have announced the launch of a new feature for its homepage – a Bing like feature that allows users to customise the background.
And to mark the launch they decided, on Thursday 10 June, to change the homepage for everybody – cycling between photos from world famous photographers – going back to normal from Friday. Read more
The black comedy with TVs biggest names
It stars some of the biggest names of British television including Warren Clarke, Stephen Fry, Richard Griffiths, Rik Mayall, richard Willson, John Bird, John Sessions and more and is based on a novel by Mark Tavener that later became a radio series before making its way to television.
In the Red is a black comedy about a serial killer attacking bank managers and leaving them covered in coins. Read more