How not to behave on TV

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The world’s most incompetent extortionist tried to get $2 million dollars from TV presenter David Letterman, by threatening to reveal details of his sexual adventures, but his intended victim met the blackmail threat head-on and now a man faces charges.

Meanwhile, Letterman’s image gets a boost.

Tonight we have the very last Galactica episode ever.
What will it reveal? What will the outcome be?
It seems to me that there are too many unanswered questions to deal with in a single episode, but maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this will be the dénouement we’ve all waited for.
Maybe it will all make sense.
Throughout [...]

TV chefs. Jesus, I hate them.
What is wrong with these people? Get a grip, guys. You’re not curing cancer. You’re not exploring the nature of existence. You’re not writing a Paganini concerto.
You’re making the fucking dinner.
That’s all.
You’re cooking food, just like I do, and just like everyone else does, and so [...]

I thought that Dr Bashir from Deep Space 9 was the same actor who plays Dr Gaius Baltar in Battlestar Galactica, but I just found out they’re not.
Was I stupid or do they look identical?  Come on –  gimme a break.  What are the odds against two identical fictional characters both being doctors on improbable [...]

No.
Forget it.
Tonight there will be no drivel, no babbling, no visceral, stercoraceous pap.
No jokes.  No ranting. No cursing.
No politics.
No dinner.
No Dad’s Taxi for Bullet.
 
Tonight there will be an Indian take-away, a bottle of wine, boots off and feet up.
Tonight, I relax with a full, feature-length Stargate on the telly, getting enthusiastically drunk and [...]

RTE have finally acknowledged what a load of old shite the Eurovision Song Contest is.   This year they’re going to send a couple of their cronies a turkey glove puppet to compete.
The song is the usual RTE compendium of parochial in-jokes that nobody outside Ireland will understand.  In fact, nobody outside Dublin will understand a [...]

What about the good old Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, huh? Now there’s a fearless watchdog working to keep Ireland a better place, wouldn’t you think?
I was especially taken by the BCI’s latest spectacular, where they banned an ad from the charity, Trócaire.
You might have seen it. It’s about the appalling treatment of women [...]