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Bear Grylls, no not a wildlife barbecue (bet he’s never heard that one before) is a complete lunatic, but makes the kind of TV you can enjoy watching when safely tucked up in your suburban living room.
Check out his website for detailed information, but this is a man who climbed Everest at the age [...]

There’s an old-school Dr Who reference for you. Mmm, Peri….
Anyway, what do you get if you cross South Park with Dr Who? This:

Created by an artist named Cyberbeagle, and found here, where you can view a larger version.
Here’s a question for you Dr Who anoraks out there (Pinksy, I’m looking at you), I seem to [...]

I don’t watch a great deal of TV (let me qualify that-I watch hours of rubbish, but there’s very little I make a point of watching), but two shows that I really like are the new Battlestar Galactica (well, right up to the series finale which has probably killed off the chances of me watching [...]

Oh, I’m really feeling old now - The Simpsons are 20 this year! Mind you it feels like longer, as Sky One in the UK show about 25 episodes a day, every day (although it also seems like it’s the same 10 episodes on rotation), from now until the end of time.
Anyway, the BBC have [...]

Braniac is a light hearted ’science’ show in the UK, where they basically carry out experiments in blowing stuff up. Think Mythbusters without the science.
This clip shows them playing with Thermite, which burns at over 2000 degrees celsius, and all of the way straight through a cars engine.

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Don’t try this at home?

The A-team: what a fabulous show, and something that has been sorely lacking from Saturday evening schedules for too many years….
This is supposed to be a parody, but I actually think it’s just like a normal episode. Well, apart from BA’s lactose intolerance

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In the UK many years ago a horrible little car named the Reliant Robin was made. Three wheels, made of fibreglass they were truly an abortion of automotive engineering.
Recently, Top Gear, a UK motoring show decided to turn one into a space shuttle, fire it thousands of feet into the air, separate it from the [...]

There’s something so wrong about this Teletubbies video clip:

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Actually, scrub that, there’s just something so wrong about the Teletubbies.  And just what is ‘Tubby Custard’? I’m so glad the boys preferred the Tweenies….

One thing that helped kill off my remaining affection for the Trek franchise was the hideous Brannon Braga & co’s increasing reliance on technobabble to sew up the plot holes - stuff like this:
You must re-route the flow of verteron particles to a tractor beam generator to detect a field inversion to the nucleocentric containment [...]

If you’ve ever wondered what was going on in the titles, just after Maggie & Marge honk the car’s horn, this kind person has made a panorama of the images so you can see - Excellent.

(Click to see the full size).