Pointless Nostalgia: Public Information Films

Apologies for repeating myself, but in the previous Pointless Nostalgia I mentioned those emails we all keep getting, about how on earth danger-loving children from the 1970s survived to tell the tale. Well, I’ve just remembered how – in Britain, we had Public Information Films. The government of the day were so concerned about our […]

‘Ping pong is coming home’, apparently

I’m not sure what I found most bewildering on my TV last night – a smirking Boris Johnson waving the Olympic flag and raving about table tennis, or the sight of thousands of British people leaving their television sets to go out into the street and celebrate the start of Britain’s Olympic reign. Actually, that’s just […]

TV Highlight of the Week…

The 137th Open Golf championship starts today at Royal Birkdale. This is great news for people who enjoy watching the Big Brother housemates sleeping, live, all through the night; they now have something equally pulsating to watch during the day.

Ready-made Seoige & O’Shea replacement

If – Heaven forfend – Gráinne Seoige decides to follow Joe O’Shea and quit the cosy late-afternoon chat show, RTE bosses needn’t panic for too long. They simply need to poach TV3’s Colette Fitzpatrick who, as the cover shot from RSVP magazine, below, shows, looks like a convenient hybrid of the two of them. That’s a proper BOGOF offer […]