Thursday, 10 January 2008

Punching Airholes Through the Dying Throat of News

Wednesday, 29thJanuary 1997

TV tonight: Channel 4 between 9 and 10. Fortean TV, presented by possibly the worst sci-fi novelist in the world (so bad he writes under at least 12 different pseudonyms) Lionel Fanthorpe, documents the strange, the unexplained, and the made-up phenomena that haunt our world.

Followed by BRASS EYE. Pulled at least twice from Channel 4's schedules, dangerous Chris Morris - banned from broadcasting for publicly announcing the deaths of Jimmy Saville and Michael Heseltine - gets public citizens and politicians to make arses of themselves and tackles issues THEY said were too tasteless to... er... tackle.

Bow down and worship the gods of cult TV. You might as well.

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