What with the upcoming UK ban on smoking in bars - and, coming soon, no drinking or talking or smiling - you d think that Britain was a nation determined to give up its vices.
Yet one of them remains. The guiltiest, dirtiest pleasure of them all.
That s right - the new series of 24 has hit our shores.
Don t worry. This isn t going to be one of those spoiler pieces.
hecklerspray agrees that there s nothing worse than someone who is a 24 week ahead of you babbling on about all the crazy things that Jack Bauer has done - which is why the best (and only) way to enjoy 24 remains waiting until the DVD season boxset comes out and watching it all in one go like a big scary heroin addict.
The big question is ever-present, however. Come the inevitable final season, how in god s name are the 24 producers going to come up with a suitably explosive ending?
How can they build a definitive climax to a show which will happily blow up a train within five minutes of the opening episode?
Fear not. Kiefer Sutherland has an idea.
Posted in on February 15th, 2006 |
Maureen Lipman – British Telecom’s Beattie character from the 80s adverts - has landed a role as a baddie in an episode of Doctor Who, while Tom Baker who played the famous doctor in the 70s is to be BT’s voice of text messages on UK landlines.
Maureen is to play an invading extra terrestrial in an episode of legendary show Doctor Who, in a role which forces the Doctor – played by actor David Tennant – to run around like a mental mad man trying to save the world from yet another special effects-laden disaster.
Posted in on February 1st, 2006 |
Paris Hilton gets all sorts of free publicity these days: Car wrecks, bulimia allegations from her friends and broken engagements are just a few.
The latest one she has absolutely nothing to do with. Sort of.
Prior arrestee and borderline artist Joe Moretti is a regular guy living in middle class Rhode Island.
On his front lawn he put up life size pics of Paris Hilton in several poses, wearing skimpy pink clothing, big boots, and probably not hunching face first into a toilet after a big meal.
Posted in on December 12th, 2005 |
hecklerspray has never really seen the point of musicals.
Disagree with us?
Just sit down and watch a couple, for Chrissakes: garish, neon, sickening mug-fests in which the entire cast delight in jettisoning any sort of dignity in favour of prancing around and warbling about whatever colour hat they re wearing.
We remain equally baffled, then, by the continual heralding of nightmare-via-projector epic The Sound Of Music as some sort of wonderful cinematic masterpiece.
Therefore we reveal the following with some trepidation: original star Julie Andrews is recommending Cameron Diaz for the lead role in an upcoming theatrical version.
Posted in on December 1st, 2005 |
More than any other of the previous five TV-gripped years, the middle months of 2005 are truly turning out to be the summer of Big Brother ( ).
First came the news that the s slightly dodgy Dr. Who ( ) revival would feature an episode in which glum Chris Eccleston ( ) stepped through those famous diary room doors.
And now? Now rumours are spreading across the Bonza land of Australia that
Posted in on May 31st, 2005 |
The line between genius and annoying is a thin one. Dr Stephen Hawking: Genius.
Dr Stephen Hawking dressed as a frog on a motorbike going bimbimbimbim bodumbom bom : Annoying. In fact, almost anything to do with the Crazy Frog is so annoying, it s starting to border on offensive.
The Sun reports that almost about the infamous Crazy Frog ringtone, being shown repeatedly on primetime television.
Posted in on May 20th, 2005 |
E4’s series has pulled out a few shockers since it began. However, this latest episode surely takes the cake.
We had already seen Kenzie from pretend group Blazin’ Squad ( ) act so minging that he made all the girls want to walk off the show.
Then there was James Hewitt ( ), getting it on with women young enough to be his niece. Ding-dong.
Posted in on May 18th, 2005 |
Drip drip.
The details are leaking through.
And don t pretend you re not interested. Is Big Brother lowest-common-denominator trash TV, wired and immersed in base-level voyeurism and mindless pseudo-celebrity?
Damn right it is.
Are you still going to watch it anyway? Course you are.
The Sunday Mirror knows this all too well.
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