The country changes hands

Where was I when the power shift occurred?? On the toilet, while the country languished beneath me.

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Big Brother

It is already blatantly obvious that Big Brother is going to be absolutely shite this year - even before half the contestants have even entered the house (there will obviously be men on the show). The problem is all the children on the show, who are all so neurotic they are unbearable to watch for more than ten minutes. Try to count the amount of sentences they utter without the use of the first person pronoun.
The second thing is that it is all children - about eight of them are under 21, so most of the tension that comes from the age differences will be gone by the third week, when the older ones will have been voted out.
All that, and the producers (who have hit more headlines in the Netherlands for commissioning a reality voting show for who gets access to a kidney for a transplant) will be doing everything in their power to engineer another headline-grabbing controversy.

Also, I would like to know what grounds Ladbroke's have for making Laura (Welsh nanny, I'm told) the favourite to win?

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Last.fm experiment.

This is a new feature from the crowd over at Last.fm - a playlist thats embeddable in blogs etc - so here's my first test of it.

Sky Sports News, not Sky Sports news

I found myself telling someone the other that Freeview is actually quite good nowadays, which is a far cry from my (justified) initial view that it was shite. It had only about 15 different TV channels, and about half of them were news, or sports. Now there is a wide variety of stations, helped no end by the Channel 4 stable of channels.

I still have a bug to bear - Sky Sports News. Now, for me, the idea of a rolling news channel dedicated to sports would be quite enjoyable to switch over to for a half an hour or so at a time. Except that's not what it is - it is simply a rolling infomercial for Sky Sports - the chief breadwinner for Rupert Murdoch. If a sport isn't broadcast on SS, it barely warrants a mention (except, of course, football - The Champions League being the only competition they don't have a stranghold over, although that's no doubt changing). Take as a prime example, the Six Nations, which the Beeb has exclusive rights for, only the England results were spoken about in any significant detail, and that France won the competition outright. They have hardly even acknowledged that the World Snooker Championships has been on for the last two weeks.
Now considering that a 24 hour advert for a format that Freeview don't show, attracting custom to the direct competition, couldn't their bosses tell the SS broadcasters to shape up, and provied details on the full range of the sporting spectrum?

Technorati Tags: SkySports, BBC Freeview, RupertMurdoch, Rugby, Football, SixNations, ChampionsLeague, Snooker

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A landmark day for feminism

And so, Match of the Day has got its first woman commentator, Jacqui Oatley. And the world alights with equality. Not much of a hoo-haa was made really, just Gary Lineker making a sly aside in his cost-the-BBC-the-FA-Cup-coverage manner. Which was justified, she was only alright - no Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh or Jim Ross and that's for dang!

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