End of an era as West Wing is Axed

News is that the current seventh season is to be the last for NBC's West Wing. Many will no doubt lament the end of the run but in truth I am kind of glad to see it brought to a...

West Wing's Leo McGarry died on Friday

Sad news that John Spencer who played Leo McGarry in the West WIng died yesterday of a heart-attack. He won an emmy playing the White House Chief of Staff in 2002 and his role recently became vice-presidential candidate. Apparently his...

More4

Obviously I haven't been watching enough TV not to know that Channel 4 are launching a new channel next week, More4.More4, Channel 4's new TV channel, is launching on Monday 10 October. More4 will show the best of world documentaries,...

Eurovision...

Like the grandmother of reality TV that it is, Eurovision just refuses to die. It is the unwanted gift that keeps on giving. Car crash TV at its finest. Tonight, friends, euro-sceptics, euro-ambivalentics and euro-fanatics alike, is a night for...

The Office (US) Pilot Episode

I just watched the pilot of the US version of The Office. It mocu-dramatizes Dunder Mifflin paper supply company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. And it is actually okay funny. Not, thus far at least, riotously funny, but certainly chuckleworthy. Somehow the...

BBC 2 & Jerry Springer The Opera

Jerry Springer the Opera, televised tonight on BBC2, was funnier than I remember it being when I saw it last Christmas in London. It seems that everyone who can broadly be termed ridiculous is piling in with crisicism of the...

X-Factor

I urge you to vote for the Steve so that G4 do not win this competition. They are absolutely awful and if they ruin any more perfectly serviceable songs (let alone their disastrous rendition of Radiohead's brilliant "Creep") then I'm...

Eurovision

Another year another Eurovision. The reason the Uk never wins is because either a) it's all about politics and Iraq or b) everyone votes for their neighbours and being an island nation we don't really have any, except the Republic...