And now the BBC can’t count

0 Comment by Captain Consumer / April 14, 2010 / Posted in Financial, General, Leisure

OK, so there’s an election just around the corner, a continuing aura of uncertainty engulfing the UK economy and countless other important things that I could and should be thinking about and doing. Which is why I’ve been browsing entertainment news online. I’m sure you’ll agree that entertainment news can usually be relied upon to deliver trivial, banal [...]

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Memo to TV producers (esp Channel 4)

0 Comment by Captain Consumer / July 20, 2009 / Posted in House & home, Leisure

I’m fed up with television programme producers who assume that the average member of their viewing audience has the memory span of a goldfish. Actually, after a quick fact check, I’ve discovered that’s unfair to goldfish: they can apparently remember as far back as three months – who’d have thought? Still, you get my drift. [...]

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