Stuff 3D glasses, we want Eastenders to be shown in the living room in the form of holograms and this merry dream/nightmare could soon be a reality with the rather clever combination of a pyramid shaped screen and an iPad. No need for glasses, just need to ditch the telly for a giant pyramid. We’re gonna need bigger front rooms.
Tag Archives: TV
New iPlayer Beta
0 CommentsMay 26, 2010 – 11:59 am
The BBC have launched a new BETA version of iPlayer, letting you share even more information about yourself to friends and scary strangers.
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Man Shoots Dog
0 CommentsMay 12, 2009 – 1:04 pm
Electric Spectre normally stays far away from TV, Partly because of a bizarre incident involving cathode rays that gave us strange powers as a child, and partly because Watch With Mothers are far, far better at it. But last night, on the BBC no less, a man shot a big dog in the face, so it’s time for a short burst of opinion from me:
Now the reason I’m mentioning this is because the British people really don’t like cruelty to animals (It wasn’t actually that cruel – a .45 round to the face will kill your average Doberman pretty quickly and painlessly), and there are already feathers a rufflin’ and beaks a quackin’ over this “shocking and appalling” display. Apparently. See, it doesn’t matter that the rest of the show was about child prostitution and murder. For Middle England (For our American readers- think an even more boring Rhode Island, with added Texan racism), the point is that a doggy-woggy took it in the face baby, and frankly, I’m disappointed that this kind of Daily Mail baiting content doesn’t reach our screens more often.
See, the show in question, the excellent albeit cynically market targeted ‘Ashes to Ashes’ is set in the 1980s (It’s a time-travelling detective sequel to the even better 70s set ‘Life on Mars’), and I think it should depict the times more accurately. Growing up in the 80s, you couldn’t move for camel-coated ‘entrepreneurs’ packing heat, knifed-up skins in bovver boots (and this was rural Dorset-god know what London was like) and, in one particularly memorable episode of ‘Dempsey and Makepeace’, a second hand car dealership with acces to AK-47s. And frankly, TV needs more of this-I watched a lot of extreme violence against people and animals as a child (and yes, was involved in some..against people…I like dogs…), and, to coin the phrase-it never did me any harm!
We may often mock the BBC for producing tired, Dawn Porter starring wank, but if they can just up the uberviolence a little, then the UK would once again have a broadcaster to be proud of, and to all the overly sensitive souls out there retching and moaning- do shut up you bloody hippies, it’s only a bleedin dog. Auntie Beeb-I salute you!
We now return you to your regular broadcast.
