Hovis Advert - not at all like me...

Loosen London's grip on TV - a slight problem withe Guardian's advert

Anyone else seen the Guardian's advert with pact on loosening London's grip on TV? It seems to be campaigning for something. For filming to be more representative of the UK, I think.

Except....

Have you seen the advert picture?

It's from a sequence of filming Doctor Who.

Fine. That's done (mostly) in Wales, yeah? So, that's another part of the UK, right? What could be the problem with the campaign?

Let me just say they chose to illustrate New Who filming 'other than in London' with a sequence from 'The Fires of Pompeii'.

A street scene from 'The Fires of Pompeii'.... (check out the Photo Story feature showing on-set filming).

Now technically what the advert asks is "To truly reflect life in the UK, shouldn't more programmes be made elsewhere?" but I think that the 'elsewhere' in this image they selected is a little further afield than they intended.

Wonga's link to Bravia bunnies and more

Awesome link Monsieur Wonga; hope your server shift is going okay.



This has made my day: and given that currently my days are pretty endlessly frustrating amounts of "oh-my-lawdy-I-can't-keep-up" it was MUCH needed.

Amusement

Will Howells brings some fun to the current/new S&S campaign for Labour with those that didn't make it for the LDs and Cons.

Friends of Harold

I should really leave this to Cloud since it was HIS idea, but it's in my mind so I'll write a version.

Anyone else want to join the "Friends of Harold" group? You know who that little guy is, he's the hero:

"Harold," (speaketh the bloke who sounds frighteningly like a bad impression of John Barrowman) "why are you pretending to listen to music even though your headphones aren't plugged in?"

BECAUSE YOU ARE SANCTIMONIOUS TWATS!

Virgin Money? I think the phrase should read, give all your money to Virgin...

UPDATE:
Two things: firstly, apologies to the Barrowmanesque-voiced smug git - he's just the one who first tries to get Harold involved in their pointlessly smug conversation. Secondly, it seems Cloud and I are not alone!

Harold is Cool. The campaign to recognise this starts here.

Shatner gets an Emmy and promotes All-Bran: is there a connection?

Okay, I need to get out more, but since Shatner's version of Common People is currently haunting me it seemed apt he should now crop up again on my cultural radar. Seems the guy has won an Emmy (!?) for his guest appearance in The Practice as Denny Crane. [This shows means little to me as, despite its long-running success in the USA, The Practice is yet another of those shows unshown by terrestrial TV here in the UK - I'm not even sure it gets much air on cable/satellite]. Then my jaw nearly hits the floor to find that he's on All-Bran adverts. Please say he is sending himself up... it's too painful to contemplate that he thinks that is a good career move. After all, All-Bran helps with keeping you moving, and let's face it, the quality of his acting and singing certainly has a similar affect on many of us...