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Saturday night looks like a bumper night for the hard disk recorder.
BBC4 - my favourite channel - is starting to repeat that BBC classic “I Claudius” staring every British actor from just about forever. What a treat for the next 12 weeks.
To get us in the mood BBC4 are warming up with a programme about [...]

I urge you, before the series finishes, to watch “Charlie Brooker’s Screen Wipe” at 10.30 Thursday night on BBC 4.
Last night was episode 3 of 5 and we were wetting ourselves. After watching I will never be able to look at Anthony Worrell-Thompson beating a egg ever again.
Sample dialogue:
“That’s about as much use as [...]

Saw the first bus-side advertisement today for Samuel L Jackson’s ‘Snakes on a Plane’.
Hopefully this film will fall into the so bad it is good category. Any film that has the immortal line “There are motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane!” promises much.

Bubb and I hardly ever go to the cinema. Be it for reasons of general slothery, the fact that two tickets at a London cinema are more than the DVD release of said movie or the fact that little scrotes just love to ruin your film experience.
However, when we do go, we go all out. [...]

BBC Four are running a season called The Century that Made Us, about the 18th century, from 10 June - 9 July.
Promises to be a good one with programmes on art, dress, war and of course some cracking period drama. Clinch those bodices ladies!
I also see my favourite art historian, Andrew Graham-Dixon (”or your [...]