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LOWCULTURE EDINBURGH FRINGE PREVIEW
August in Edinburgh can only mean Festival time, but what to go and see out of the myriad shows on offer? Well I haven’t been for over a decade so I can only suggest two shows I have any knowledge of (although if you’ve got a TARDIS feel free to go [...]
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Now I’m not usually a fan of radio but that’s mainly the fault of Jo BLOODY Whiley and Scott FRIGGIN Mills, but I do enjoy The News Quiz. Not only because Celebrity Lesbian Sandi Toksvig is the chair, but also because Celebrity Lesbian Sue Perkins is a regular panellist.
The News Quiz never fails to [...]
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The lowculture verdict
Last night’s BAFTAS provided a few surprises. In fact, the voting was so perverse that I wondered if they hadn’t done it to deliberately cause shockwaves.
There were a handful of categories where the winners were expectedly deserved: Criminal Justice, Life in Cold Blood, The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing, Amazon with Bruce Parry, [...]
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Goodbye Bea, we’ll miss you.
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I‘m sad to hear the news today that Simon Amstell has quit as the host of Never Mind The Buzzcocks. He’d reinvigorated the format after Mark Lamarr left and it seemed to be a good vehicle for him, post-Popworld. No word as yet what he’ll be doing next (hopefully not writing more worst-episodes-of-the-series [...]
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The internet was been buzzing for the last two days* with rumours of a Roxette reunion after Per Gessle gave an interview to the BBC, promoting 20 years since ‘The Look’ was released, along with his European tour, and the song he’s contributed to creepy Swedish-kiddy-romantic-vampire-psychological film of the moment Let the Right One In.
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Seeing as most of you are snowed in (I’m looking out at a blue sky with a bit of sun, actually), you can make good use of your time by sending in the best lowculture-related snow-related picture or article you can find. The best one might appear here.
Here’s avid Twitterer Phillip Schofield, pictured coping [...]
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It’s the end of an era, in a very literal sense, as it would seem that the axe has finally fallen on Heartbeat. We probably shouldn’t be entirely surprised by this news, since it has managed to spin out the 1960s for nearly 17 years, but it did feel like one of those shows [...]
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Here’s Todd “Mark Fowler” Carty on Wobbling Uncontrollably On Ice in what we assume will be today’s official watercooler moment, assuming you have (a) work in an office or similar watercooler-enabled workspace and (b) have colleagues who give a shit about Dancing On Ice one way or another. Personally, I lost a good 50% [...]
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Today marked a pivotal moment in television history: the first Countdown without Carol. Britain’s foremost Lady of Letters (and Numbers) announced her decision to quit last July, amid rumours that she was facing a considerable pay cut. Having told Channel 4 that if they liked it, then they should have put a ring [...]
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I see a little silhouetto of a muppet.
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I saw them perform it "live" on GMTV this morning and I nearly spluttered out my tea. 