Award season is in full swing and last night we saw the music industry slapping itself (in rhythm) its back at the BRITs. Like the NTAs (see review here) the BRITs weren’t always this arena-filling showcase that it is now. The first occasion when the British music industry decided that huge profits, gold discs, public […]

This week BBC 3 went online.  This is all part of the corporations plan to cut the running cost of the channel from £85m to £30m.  When it was announced last year there was much wailing from critics that BBC 3 was at the heart of creativity in the BBC and removing it from traditional […]

Do you remember the days when history programmes consisted of people talking about history and science programmes simply showed you sciencey stuff?  Well those days are long gone.  If you want to learn anything today you need either; 1) celebrities (such as the Real Marigold Hotel, reviewed here, or Channel 4’s Time Crashers) or 2) […]

We do love to watch a celebrity doing either something extreme (like throwing themselves off a ski jump) or mundane (like baking).  This week the celebs (sort of, more of that later) were out in force.  Sunday saw the return of The Jump.  The great thing about this show is that there is a real […]