Today the Mercury prize will be awarded to one of 12 nominees and Radio 6 has been promoting this event for weeks now. If you love music as much as I do, you’ll be interested to find out who will get the award this year and the ever excitable Jools Holland will as usual present the show. I always assumed the prize was named after either the record label Mercury Records or the great Freddie (who is also the inspiration for the name of my dear cat Freddy). So when checking I was surprised that it was actually named and created by the communications company Mercury – and that was before I lived in Britain so I have never heard of them. Since its demise the Mercury has changed its sponsors to Barclaycard but kept the name.
Category Archive: TV
Feb
03
Beauty and the Beast – Channel 4
When I first saw the trailer to Channel4’s “Beauty and the Beast: The Ugly Face of Prejudice” (shown Wednesdays at 8pm) I thought – oh dear another point-and-stare programme from the channel which also broadcasts “Embarrassing Bodies” (who actually watches this – and what makes people go on that programme? It surely can’t be money alone – and if so they must pay them a lot.)
Jan
24
Hugh’s Fish Fight and British Forest Sell-off
Hugh’s Fish Fight aired a couple of weeks ago and if you haven’t done so yet, you can sign his petition by clicking on the widget on the right of this blog. Of all TV chefs I like Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Rick Stein the most. Hugh, though terribly posh, is someone who is putting his …
Jan
24
From Skins to Pete Postlethwaite
Skins is back on our screens ( Thursday on E4) and being a fan of series 1,2 and 3 I will watch it The new series has a completely new cast which is a good thing, because last series became too dark and soapy and killing off Freddy was a bad decision. I’d preferred it if they’d killed off Effy –as she has been a right pain in the arse and one of Skins’ most unlikeable characters.
Apr
19
Little House on the Prairie – Unsere kleine Farm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO72KBtUmHk If you are feeling blue, are fed up with depressing news and the world around you – watch Little House on the Prairie. It will cheer you up, make you think and give you back the belief in the good that exists in the world. Though a lot of drama happens to the Ingalls …
Feb
24
Bobby loves television
Our cat is full of surprises and the latest is that after 4 years with us she finally has discovered the joys of watching television. Usually she doesn’t care much about it when it’s on and often just snoozes, but for a couple of days now she is transfixed by it. She responds to …
Aug
06
Germany has changed a lot
In my week in Cologne I visited my aunt and met an old friend of mine I haven’t seen since 1996, which was great, cause apart from the fact that he is now a happily married man with two lovely daughters, he hasn’t changed that much. It was a nice evening and it occurred to …
Jun
03
Disturbing documentary of the week
Yesterday I caught “My Monkey Baby” on Channel 4. The programme followed three American couples who bought a monkey as a “Baby” substitute. One couple was young and the man didn’t want a human baby, the second couple was retired and the woman suffered from empty-nest syndrome, in the case of the final couple (not …
Apr
12
Good News Channel
The other week I watched Charlie Brooker’s excellent “Newswipe” (BBC4, Wednesdays) about news anchors. It featured a short film by Adam Curtis (who directed the brilliant “The Power of Nightmares”) about the rise of “oh-dearism”, a tool for news, which drives audiences to apathy and helplessness. This got me thinking – every day we are …
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