Monday, February 13, 2006

Weekend TV (11-12/2/06)

TV highlight of the week, nay the month, was Philip Schofield getting called 'Vicky' live on air by the bloke who presents Dancing on Ice: Defrosted. As in, "We'll see Vicky later" - with the camera trailing away from a very confused-looking Schofield. Funny. David Seaman is now my favourite to win because he's metamorphosed from a lumpy northerner to a graceful, gentle giant. I'm sure he'd be a very generous lover. He gets my vote.
Did one of those E4 'catch-up' things on Beauty and the Geek which was avoided initially because I thought it was contrived to poke fun at ill-educated women, but actually it's the men who seem like idiots for their complete ignorance of what's going on in popular culture. Ok, it's not actually necessary to know Jordan's real name, but it's not like she doesn't make the broadsheets from time to time. Also, you can't tell me that these lonely men are always looking up equations on the internet. I think the word 'geek' for some of the male contestants is a bit unfair though - they've just got degrees in maths or science or know who William Blake is. 'Intelligent' seems a bit more appropriate. But I guess you can't compose a tenuously assonant title with the word 'intelligent'.
Been watching Invasion on and off over the last few weeks, but it was so boring last night that it has had to be struck from the TV register. Whatever I've said about Lost - far-fetched, filled with plotholes, improbably clean survivors - at least it can't be accused of being boring. Apart from the 'Evangeline-Lilly-gazes-intensely-at-the-ocean' moments, overall it's pretty watchable. I might give that second series a chance after all.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is "Vicky" his name on the scene?

Telly Ellie said...

Must be. What a smutty gimp.