June 2011
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Big Brother 13 (USA) - Cast Reveal + Twist
We are one week away from another summer dose of high-voltage, over-the-top, in-your-face drama, courtesy of one of the greatest reality television shows of all time, Big Brother USA. Lies, deception, manipulation - it is all legal in BBUSA, and heading in to its 13th season it shows no signs of slowing down, as this year it boasts the “Biggest, craziest twist ever!” - nothing like...
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Auditioning for Big Brother 12
I’ve been a fan of Big Brother for many years, at times obsessively so, from it’s early days when the show used to pass itself of as culturally beneficial by hiding under the guise of being a “social experiment”, to the over-the-top, sensationalised, fame-seeking, Jeremy Kyle circus of the later years. It was voyeurism at it’s best/worst, a Peeping Tom’s...
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Doctor Who Series 6 - A Good Man Goes To War
“He will rise higher than ever before, but then fall so much further.”
I’m not a religious man at all but it was hard to ignore the religious references in this episode, from the headless monks, to sentient computers, to soldiers of God, and the most significant religious symbolism, the Fall. In the Bible the Fall of Man refers to the disobedience of Adam and Eve, eating the...
