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Roobarb and Custard

Posted by Remote Control on February 12, 2008 5:53 PM

It's only when you watch it as an adult that it seems a little less, well, n normal!

Julie Etchingham, Sky News, and revealing the truth behind the Tories

Posted by Remote Control on November 3, 2007 3:17 PM

GIVEN that those in media circles who commented on ITV's decision to appoint Julie Etchingham as Sir Trev's right-hand woman on the new News At Ten all called her a 'safe pair of hands' this gaffe is particularly amusing.

Michael Fish and the Hurricanes

Posted by me on October 16, 2007 10:15 PM

Will Michael Fish ever live down his error of 20 years ago? Not with this clip still lurking around...

Jeff Stelling: A man to get women into football

Posted by Remote Control on October 6, 2007 10:46 AM

I achieved, last weekend, something which many blokes consider to be nigh on impossible: I got my girlfriend to watch, and enjoy, the football.

Not a whole 90 minutes - we've tried that, and it almost worked, a 3-3 draw between Preston and Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. All was going well till Preston got their third equaliser of the night, I jumped up and hugged the wrong woman.

Why Rupert won't be back on the breakfast sofa for a bit

Posted by Remote Control on August 8, 2007 8:42 AM

Rupert Everett shouldn't be a particularly controversial guest on BBC Breakfast, especially when talking about the delights of the rural cinema.

Only when he starts talking about what you should do when at the cinema, does it suddenly enter very dangerous terriotory.

Watch for Suzanna Reid's face and Charlie Stayt's jaw reaction...

While we went to war, Tony was....

Posted by Remote Control on July 28, 2007 2:56 AM

Idle questions I may or may not have asked myself in the past: Does Diana, princess of Wales actually sell newspapers? Do Derby County fans really believe they have a cat in hell's chance of surviving in the Premiership? And what did Tony Blair do in his spare time after sending troops in Iraq in 2003?

Thanks to the internet, and The Times newspaper's excellent People column, I now have the answer

Fly Yorkshire Airlines

Posted by me on July 24, 2007 11:31 PM

I think I've found an airline that Liverpool John Lennon Airport won't be asking to start flying from the city.

Having said that, Yorkshire Airlines would probably make a better fist of getting across the Atlantic than some we could name...

When reporters cock-up

Posted by Remote Control on July 23, 2007 11:57 PM

Have you ever seen the news, in the UK, when someone says something they didn't mean to, perhaps therefore sounding rude, and their colleagues rush to help them cover up?

Not in America. We'll be seeing more from Shepherd Smith, Fox News's star anchor, in the weeks to come, but first watch this - and ask yourself if Shep is still on this embarrassed anchor's Christmas card list


Weathermen... what to do with them

Posted by Remote Control on July 19, 2007 12:17 PM

I've seen Daniel Corbett on the telly twice today. Both times he seemed to be really enjoying himself. Which seeing as he is a weatherman on the BBC informing us that flash floods, heavy rain and strong winds are likely across the UK on Friday, must make him a bit odd.

In fact, without sounding old, weathermen aren't as good as they used to be, are they? They aren't characters, are they? Perhaps it's because there are so many of them - thanks to rolling news.

The ones we do have all appear to go for the same thing - super pally, determined to be a mate in your living room. Which is quite a hard act to pull off when they're telling us our homes are about to be hit by flooding rivers.

And the ones who do try to be characters, like Daniel, just seem odd. He doesn't just point and poke at his weather map, he caresses it and runs his hands over it in a way which suggests he's inviting mainland UK to split from Northern Ireland and spend the night with him instead.

I feel a cockroach in the studio would liven things up. In fact, that's what happened in America recently and the results are hilarious.

Why Gordon Burns doesn't do outside broadcasts

Posted by Remote Control on July 18, 2007 5:02 PM

It's the big thing now, isn't it? Something big breaks and the TV news stations send a presenter to the scene.

You normally end up with a presenter talking to a reporter at the scene and don't learn much more other than the fact it's important enough to have Jeremy Thompson/Fiona Bruce/Mark Austin at the scene.

But when something happens in the North West, you don't often see Gordon Burns at the scene, do you? There's a probably a reason for that - and I think I've found it


When rolling news goes wrong.

Posted by Remote Control on July 12, 2007 12:09 AM

Imagine the scene. It's a quiet Saturday afternoon down at BBC News 24, and suddenly reports come through of a car going into the front of Glasgow Airport.

Peter Sissons is on air, so a safe pair of hands there, then? Maybe not.

Highlights include: Sissons asking the eyewitness: Is the jeep being treated as suspicious? What sort of explosion was it - the sort you get with a bomb or with petrol? The man then just disappears, but not before telling us that: "the car was on fire, it had smoke inside it too."

Genius. It's what rolling news was made for. Not a fact in sight.

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