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22 April 2008 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

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June at the BFI

21 April 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

It’s monthly round-up time for tele at the BFI. Here are the highlights of June’s schedule. Members’ postal booking starts 28 April; members’ online and phone booking opens 5 May; public booking opens 9 May.

Tony Hancock season: The Rebel (1st/4th), The Punch and Judy Man (23rd/30th), The Tony Hancock Show (2nd/28th), three episodes of Hancock’s Half Hour (13th), The Government Inspector + Face to Face (14th/26th), three episodes of Hancock, including The Blood Donor and The Radio Ham (18th)

13th: David Simon in conversation. Includes the first episode of The Wire, season five. 

17th: Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais in conversation. Preceded by episodes of Porridge, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

25th: Michael Palin and Terry Jones introduce three recently recovered episodes of The Complete and Utter History of Britain 

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The Apprentice and the tasks

18 April 2008 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

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Is it just me or are the tasks starting to seem a bit daft on The Apprentice? Part of me is longing for something, I don’t know, a bit more properly business-like. “Oh, look, they have five minutes to prepare for something they’re all woefully underqualified to do. That’s a good test of whether they’d be able to head up a major division of a global business company.”

Obviously, this is not a new criticism. But I’m looking for a little variety, I think. Something new, rather than the same old, same old. How about you?

PS Any Mac users think the teams would have done better if they’d had MacBooks and iPhoto instead of HP Windows rejects?

PPS Why do all the news outlets insist of putting the names of the fired apprentices on their front pages the very next day? Either you watched it, in which case you know who was fired, or you didn’t – in which case you either don’t care or you’re now very hacked off. Like me.