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Amanda Holden on The Inbetweeners!

admin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:11:06 +0000

In case you don’t already know the Channel 4 comedy show The Inbetweeners is back on our televisions screens. And although not necessarily one of cheap televisions favourite TV shows it does apparently have an army of celebrity followers! One of them is apparently the best judge from TVs Britain’s Got Talent Amanda Holden who would like to have a guest spot in The Inbetweeners playing a posh sexy English teacher.

According to the Daily Star Inbetweeners actors Blake Harrison and Simon Bird said “And Amanda Holden told us she wants to play a sexy English teacher in the next series”. They went on to say that some famous footballers were also big fans of the show and also wanted to do guest appearances “Apparently, Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand want parts in the show,”. Boring why do footballers want to be in TV shows? Stick to what you are good at guys, kicking a dead piece of cow around for millions of pounds then spending it on delinquent large breasted ladies while your wife is at home lol.

Black Books TV Show Info

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:30:17 +0000

Black Books was a British television comedy shown on Channel 4 staring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig set in a independent book shop in London. Black Books is the name of the shop owned by drunken owner Bernard Black (played brilliantly by Dylan Moran) who is far more interested in alcohol, cigarettes and reading rather than selling anything. Bill Baily plays Manny Bianco and Tasmin Greig plays Fran Katzenjammer who spend many of the show episodes trying to get Bernard to participate in the wider world, something he has little enthusiasm to do (like his book selling skills).

Black Books

From what I can remember Black Books was very funny, especially compared to most of the rubbish passed off as “comedy” on television at that period. The humour was often surreal with things like mollusc’s and dead badgers depicting how dirty the shop was. It wasn’t a very long run show, as each series only had 6 episodes but the writing which was also done by Dylan Moran was top notch. Black Books was also popular with television critics winning a BAFTA for Best Situation Comedy in 2001 and 2005 as well as the Bronze Rose at the Festival Rode d’Or in 2001.

Black Books cast:

Character		Played by
Bernard Black		Dylan Moran
Manny Bianco		Bill Bailey
Fran Katzenjammer		Tamsin Greig

Black Books Episode Guide:

Black Books – Series One

Episode Number		Title
1		Cooking The Books
2		Manny First Day
3		The Grapes Of Wrath
4		The Blackout
5		The Big Lock-Out
6		He’s Leaving Home

Black Books – Series Two

Episode Number		Title
1		The Entertainer
2		Fever
3		The Fixer
4		Blood
5		Hello Sun
6		Nice Change

Black Books – Series Three

Episode Number		Title
1		Manny Come Home
2		Elephants And Hens
3		Moo-ma And Moo-pa
4		A Little Flutter
5		The Travel Writer
6		Party

Although this isn’t a review by any stretch of the imagination (its just TV show info as you may have already guessed), but if you like dark, surreal and cleverly written British comedy you can’t go wrong with trying out the Black Books complete DVD box set which (looking today) is only around £16 from the likes of play.com and amazon.co.uk.

*Many thanks to Simon for letting me use his picture of the building used for the external shots in Black Books.

Lindsay Lohan For Celebrity Big Brother?

admin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:40:31 +0000

Apparently Channel 4 bosses are trying to make the final Celebrity Big Brother go out with a bang by trying to convince the Thing Lindsay Lohan to sign up for the controversial television show.

Naked Lindsay Lohan Celebrity Big Brother

Pretty boring news as we here at cheap televisions hate Big Brother and it’s celebrity spin off but I’m sure its a rumour that a few sad people will want to know about.

Finally Big Brother Dies.

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:27:47 +0000

Yes the day all of us with half an ounce of intelligence have been waiting for, one of Channel 4′s most annoying franchises on television will be coming to an end next year. Cheap televisions can’t be bothered going into all of the details about Big Brother finally dying as its splattered all over the internet. However things will certainly be looking brighter for both viewers and Channel 4 which apart from the summer generally has a better assortment of TV programs compared to the other 4 television channels here in the UK.

Big Brother Eye Picture

Hurrarrrr I say it one last time, Big Brother has died!

Oh and sorry for no Big Brother news at all on cheap televisions, I hate the show so have refused to watch or comment on it at all this year lol.

Celebrity Big Brother to get axe?

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:21:47 +0000

No Channel 4 television producers haven’t gone mad and put an axe into the Celebrity Big Brother Hijack (or whatever they want to call it now) house just to finally get some half decent ratings. But the once popular TV show may be getting closer to being dropped from our telly screens according to bookies Ladbrokes who have cut the odds on Celebrity Big Brother getting dropped next year from 8/1 to 5/1.We can only hope that Channel 4 do drop the show, even if its just in this ridiculous hijack form that really hasn’t worked. Seems Ladbrokes believe this too with a spokesperson saying “Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack has hardly captured the imagination of punters. And there are plenty of customers who reckon it’s the beginning of the end.”