blogging about TV
lucecannon is stirring from the pit of mince pies and chestnut-flavoured flatus in which she has lain since last posting, to wish you all a very Happy New Year. Recession aside, I can’t help but feel 2009 could actually be better than the outgoing year has been. Forget the even years; they’re for plodding. The [...]
There probably won’t be much action on this blog over the next 2 weeks given that the school holidays start in less than an hour and one of the perks of freelancing is taking heaps of time off when you can least afford it.
Suffice to say, then, that I wish a very merry Christmas to [...]
Jamie Oliver, who ‘cooked’ Christmas in an hour-long special last night on Channel 4, has come out top of the TV Christmas cooks for me this year.
Regular readers will know that I like Jamie anyway, but his brand of no-nonsense, mash it all up and use the leftovers cooking is both inspirational and realistic and [...]
Verily, Christmas on TV is now officially all about food. There’s too much trouble and strife in the religion side of things, so let’s just eat and be merry. This is a winter festival, after all. We have Nigella on BBC 2; Hugh Fearnley-Whatshisname on Channel 4; followed by Jamie Oliver tonight, also on C4.
Last [...]
Seems the government is considering either privatising Channel 4 or merging it with Channel Five. A reality check with the viewing public (ask your aunties and some mates) shows some already think C4 is privately owned, given it has ads on it. Some think it’s somehow owned by ITV. It isn’t, but ITV used to [...]
I’m not ‘doing’ Nigella this year. Her Christmas Kitchen series started on BBC 2 last week with more than 3m viewers but is in fact only three new films and two old ones, repeated from “the hit 2006 series of the same name”. Not for me to accuse the BBC and Ms Lawson of milking [...]
Too busy to post with school Christmas concerts to attend, a house to de-fluff before guests descend and, well, just the two presents to wrap this year. But they will look nice in their brown paper and string.
Just enough time to observe that ITV did a fine job with its repeat of Charles Dickens’ Old [...]
Guys, guys. Not to depress you on a Friday or put a downer on the coming weekend or anything. But you must watch Evacuees Reunited on ITV 1 on Monday (15 December) if you can. Just because I hardly ever recommend ITV programmes (Tiswas or Swap Shop? We were always Swap Shop in our house) [...]
I stuck with the BBC’s Little Dorrit in a standard ‘I must appreciate Dickens on TV’ way. But I was robbed of some of the subtleties of the story which must lurk in the original novel. OK, the plot was all explained in the last episode but if the scheduling and overall production had been better, my [...]
lucecannon.com is a reality TV-free zone for lots of reasons. One: reality TV and coverage of it is everywhere so it doesn’t need to be here. Two, three, four, five and six: it’s just not my particular tasse du the and I shall attempt to explain why. But it will have to be quick and [...]
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