I hate some TV adverts with a passion…
Take for example the ads for sofa companies who tell us constantly that their sale ends Monday, but will this elusive Monday ever come or do they just end one sale every Monday and start another one on Tuesday?
Then there are the ads that shout at you, just in case you’re the village idiot. Remember Tony Scott of Cilit Bang notoriety? I wonder if he goes around at home going ‘I’M TONY SCOTT! WHERE’S MY SOCKS?’
There’s recently been a good deal of debate about the rights and wrongs of swearing and violence on TV, so we thought we’d take a look at these issues and ask your opinion on the rights and wrongs of it.
Let’s start with the issue of swearing and of course, one for whom swearing is virtually a trademark is Gordon Ramsay, who even has a show entitled, The F Word.
Gordon’s made a niche for himself in the over-populated world of TV chefs because of his constant use of the F word… but is it a bad thing?
Comedian Frank Skinner recently commented to The Sun that TV chefs swear in order to look “more manly” because they do “women’s work”. Obviously, Frank meant this in a tongue-in-cheek way, but perhaps he’s not so far off the mark.
Ted Sprague meets Hana Geitelman, who shows him the marks from the tranquilizer gun the Company uses to capture people with powers.
Claire’s mother fails to recognize her, but within moments seems to be alright again.
Noah Bennett is at Isaac Mendez’s apartment. Isaac shows him a painting of Peter looking transparent. Bennett reveals that an old (invisible) colleague must still be alive.
I don’t mean to be alarmist, but there’s been an increasing number of stories in the media about viewers being defrauded by our largest television stations. Whether it’s phone voting scandals, television quizzes where the production assistants phone in and win or faking programmes by bending reality to fit an editorial angle.
We’ve had the Queen made to look like a stroppy diva by the BBC (off with their heads!) and now ITV has admitted to falsifying an Alzheimer patient’s death when the man died several days earlier. Read more & comment »
Oh, the dirty world of celebrity gossip! Or should that be drrty world?
I’ll confess to having a cursory look at tonight’s episode of Dirt, out of curiosity more than anything else. I was blogging at the same time, so I wasn’t paying full attention, but the gist of the storyline was as follows:
I have to say, from the parts I saw, Cox’s character was truly horrible. Dirt is the operative word, because watching some of her techniques really made me feel dirty. You’ve got to wonder how much this mirrors the real life gossip columnists. It certainly blows away the image that the Heat magazine staffers try to present!
Anyway peeps, let me know if I missed anything in my short-but-sweet rundown of tonight’s episode!
