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Here’s an article I wrote for yesterday’s ‘Independent’ on confidence tricksters. The Indie had to edit it for lack of space, but now you can see the full piece here: The invention seemed just plausible enough to work. Sold in thousands, it was a bogus bomb detector made of parts cribbed from a novelty golf ball [...] Poor Toby Jones. First he gets to star in the other version of Truman Capote’s story in ‘Infamous’, and now he gets the other Hitchcock biography. But where Sasha Gervasi’s ‘Hitchcock’ retold the making of ‘Psycho’ with elegance and élan, journeyman director Julian Jarrold’s ‘The Girl’ is a one-note hatchet job that works hard to [...] It used to annoy me that I couldn’t watch BBC iPlayer when I was abroad, but frankly, with the improved quality of Youtube, who needs iPlayer? Knowing that thanks to storms, my flight home is likely to be delayed, I’m starting the week with a few laughs. First up, is this too good to be [...] I’ll level with you, it’s been a bad week. I need something to pep me up before I go on today, and news that ‘The Thick Of It’ has come to the end of Series Four isn’t it. So before we bid farewell to Malcolm Tucker and pals, let’s glance back at Malcolm’s attempt to [...] As DVD companies like Network delve deeper into their back catalogues to find some of the more obscure British TV series for release, I’ve heard about a couple I’m keen to see. ‘The Man in Room 17′ was set in Room 17 of the Department of Social Research, where a former wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw [...] The arrival of The Avengers comic ‘Steed and Mrs Peel’, set firmly in the 1960s, shows once again the groundswell of interest that remains in this now very old TV series. What keeps it going? Few of those involved can possibly remember it first time around, but here they are reviving the Hellfire Club and [...] America knows that sometimes democratic argument needs to be made more fun. The admirable Jon Stewart VS The arrogant and clearly deranged Bill O’Reilly featured here in an impartial debate until some arsehole copyright agreement kicked in and removed it, so now there’s no free debate. Well, that’s one in the eye for democracy. FYI, [...] There’s a strange mystique attached to professional writing that comes from the idea of creating something from nothing. But it’s not something from nothing at all – every writer I know shows his or her influences quite clearly, and much of our early work can be traced back to those who inspired us. This is [...] My antipathy towards television is well-documented, but it really wasn’t always this bad, honest. And there has always been a groundswell of basic television that simply morphs from one generation to the next. Viz; What Old shows Turned Into Opportunity Knocks – The X Factor |
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