Jeremy Clarkson on TV Chat Shows
British chat shows have changed. Jeremy Clarkson explains why they are different now. Everybody likes Sir Michael Parkinson. Everyone trusts him, too — me most of all. He often pops up in ad breaks to bring news of a life insurance plan that will pay for my funeral with enough left over to provide cash [...]
Caitlin Moran on The Voice
The Voice (BBC One) Britain’s Got Talent (ITV1) Man alive, The Voice has been a long time coming. There have been tabloid stories running on it for beyond an age — I feel like I’ve been reading about “The BBC’s hot new talent show, The Voice”, since Ted Heath was Prime Minister. Wasn’t he going [...]
Masterchef Innuendos
More pudding-based filth to fill your cakeholes from Masterchef: The Professionals. The top ten innuendos from the rude mouths of Gregg Wallace and Michel Roux Jr. Tweet This Post
Masterchef Biscuit Bass Remix
Masterchef synthaesia by Swede Mason. Who is really a builder from up north. Tweet This Post
Honda sponsors British documentaries (sponsored post)
Blank Mag loves documentaries so we are pleased to hear that Honda UK is to continue to sponsor Channel 4 Documentaries. All money that goes to keeping the art of TV docs alive should be applauded. Throughout 2011, Honda will be releasing a series of mini-documentaries, an online hub, and sponsorship idents for Channel [...]
Why we love Mad Men
Mad Men speaks like no other show to contemporary Western middle-class ambivalence towards mass consumerism, material wealth, social freedom and the cult of the individual – and looks good into the bargain. What really makes Mad Men stand out is not its fashion sense or attempts to satirise the preposterous advertising industry, but how neatly [...]
Top 10 Masterchef Innuendos
Masterchef judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace get dirty! Tweet This Post
Ricky Gervais on The Office
“When David Brent goes up to the black guy in the office and says ‘I love Sidney Poitier’ that was him trying to tell him he’s not a racist. I love looking at those taboos.” His comedy works because it is true to life and full of acute observation. There’s no lumbering exposition. He follows [...]
Come Dine With Me
by Stephen Armstrong This is, without question, the worst middle-class nightmare imaginable. You are hosting a dinner party, you serve an ambitious new recipe to impress your guests but they arrive late, everything goes wrong, the food ends up overcooked, everybody hates it and when you try to feed the leftovers to your cat, it [...]
Jimmy McGovern by Caitlin Moran
The Street – BBC1 Jimmy McGovern’s righteous reputation — he is one of the Twelve Apostles of modern British screenwriting — became apparent within minutes of the new series kicking off. The plot was simple: principled pub landlord Bob Hoskins bars a weedy teenage kid, Callum, from his pub, after he smokes in the toilets. [...]
