David Hughes

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Tag: tv

Orbital & Matt Smith At Glastonbury

Matt Smith joins Orbital on stage at Glastonbury 2010 to perform Doctor? I love how Matt drops into character and that you can hear him chuckling with glee as he joins Orbital. My daughter, a budding Dr Who fan, loved this and was most upset the BBC doesn’t use it as their TV title music. [...]

I Came Here To Drink Milk and Kick Ass, and I Just Finished My Milk

IT Crowd – Series 4 – June 25th

Advert Of The (Previous) Decade

Viewers of the UK TV station ITV have voted for the advert of the decade, even though technically this decade doesn’t end until the end of 2010, but what’s another year between friends. The winner was the excellent ‘Go On Lad’ from Hovis: I was going to challenge this, and say that they were wrong, all [...]

Can’t Read Can’t Write

I’ve just watched the first episode of Can’t Read Can’t Write a new documentary series on Channel 4. The series follows a group of adults aged between 21 and 58 that can’t as the title says read or write. I am shocked and disgusted that a person can be allowed to leave school without even [...]

Fire up the Quattro!

I loved the BBC TV series Life on Mars with it’s wonderful blend of psychological drama, 70s “style”, classic British cops and robbers, a brilliant soundtrack and of course the introduction of the now legendary Gene Hunt. When I heard there would be a spin off from Life on Mars called Ashes to Ashes (do [...]

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Did you see the Chili Peppers on Jonathan Ross (BBC 1 UK) on Friday night? Simply superb. They played their new single ‘Dani California’, which is really rather good, then followed it with one of my all time favourite Chili Peppers tracks ‘Give It Away’. They were quite frankly awesome – the best live band [...]