Ten Reasons To Put Your Hands Up (because you, like me, love JLS)
Apr 25th
I thought long and hard about how best to return to the blogging scene. Only this morning, I walked past Rachel Stevens (or was she sitting there, waiting for me to come by? It’s possible) and thought to myself, ‘Yes. I’m totally ready to start almost-but-not-quite liveblogging Strictly Come Dancing.’ Alas for me but even more so for you, SCD is still some way off (though not as way off as Series 3 of Miranda: I occasionally wake up in a cold sweat convinced that it won’t return at all. 2012? TWO THOUSAND AND WHAT I CALL TWELVE?!). And so I turn to a subject just as close to my heart: the musical magnificence and boyish brilliance of JLS. By the end of this post, my one hope is that you too will put your hands up (and then down again, because you need to comment on the post pronto. Blog comments are like happy-birthday messages on Facebook: the only true measures of happiness). Read the rest of this entry »
The Apprentice: Week Four? Five?
Nov 10th
Oh, it’s Week Six. I was wrong. Time flies.
21.04: these early-morning, oh-I-just-happen-to-be-waking-as-a-BBC-camera-crew-drifts-past-my-face shots never cease to amaze me. How? Why? When? Read the rest of this entry »
The Apprentice 2010: Week Four
Oct 27th
After last week’s storming success (no comments; not many hits; Ginger-Ex-Flatmate still thinks it was written by someone else entirely), we’re back with another super-awesome installment of ABNQ-Liveblogging. Would-be entrepreneurs of Britain, give it your best 120%.
The Apprentice 2010: Week Three
Oct 20th
So, the almost-but-not-quite-live blogging bug has bit and now, frankly, there’s no TV show I want to leave unalmost-but-not-quite-liveblogged. Embarrassingly on my Apprentice ABNQ-Liveblogging Debut, I’m coming into the show 13 minutes late for reasons I don’t quite understand. But I have this feeling that a stylish mix of editing, music and Nick will make crystal clear in no time the good, bad and ugly of this week’s episode… Read the rest of this entry »
X Factor 2010: Week One (Part Three). Number Ones.
Oct 10th
Before Mark left to save the world, I said to him, ‘Please…you just have to give me this one chance. This is what I’ve dreamed of all my life. This is what it’s all been about. You won’t regret it. I HAVE ANCESTORS WHO DIED!’ And he said, ‘Literary Agent Flatmate, despite the fact that you’ve not once dangled so much as the signature advance of a book deal in my face, I will let you blog in my absence. But because you’ve not once dangled so much as the signature advance of a book deal in my face, you will blog the rubbish results show on Sunday night. The Boyfriend will blog the proper show.’ Read the rest of this entry »
X Factor 2010: Week One (Part Two)
Oct 10th
Right, after a sleepless night spent worrying and dreaming about this bloody blog, I’m back to finish what I started. But before I continue my assassination of the remaining performances, let’s take a moment to applaud that which was great about last night’s show, the adverts.
Advertisers have really pulled it out of the bag for this year’s show and are, at the moment, putting the contestants to shame. They’re really understood who’d be watching TV at that time and that musical ads will resonate (Do you like how I’m using lots of Cowell-isms to sound like I know what I’m talking about?). Read the rest of this entry »
X Factor 2010: Week One (Part One)
Oct 10th
Preface
So, Mark (the voice of popular culture) is currently overseas and unable to watch the first X Factor live show. Subsequently, I have been politely asked (i.e. ordered) to take his place with a special guest blog on the first show. I am reliable informed that hordes of Internet Followers will be flocking to the site tonight to get their first fix of this year’s live X Factor commentary.
But what am I to write? I’ve been told I am free to do as I see fit, but as I sat down to start this post, I realised such carte blanche was dangerous… Read the rest of this entry »
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