Archive for the ‘Quote of the Day’ Category
Friday, June 20th, 2008
The past couple of days has seen a right ol’ stink being kicked up. See, Joan Rivers appeared on Loose Women, presumably in an attempt to liven up the cackling stiffs that usually hang off the desks there, and said a couple of naughty words. Basically, Rivers said that the show should get ready to bleep her as Russell Crowe is a “piece of f**king s**t”. Then, Joan was dragged off the show. Stunning stuff.
Then, she apologised to the Daily Mail, saying: “Yes, I swore, and I’m so f***king sorry. No one told me the TV show Loose Women was a reality show and that I would be voted off.” I bet the Daily Mail hacks had a little cry over that. Anyway, in typical Joan Rivers style, she’s now retracted her apology…
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Over the last year we have heard about many instances of the TV networks fleecing us mere viewers. Some of these lapses in truthfulness have been more amusing than shocking (Cookiegate, for example), but others have been genuinely fraudulent. Take the Comedy Awards. The second part of the show – which included the presentation of the People’s Award – was recorded while we were watching the news, and yet we were still invited to vote. That’s just plain awful. It was on the back of these revelations that Graham Norton uttered my favourite line of the weekend on I’d Do Anything (well, apart from the Doctor shouting I NEVER WOULD, naturally): “Please don’t vote before the phone lines are open because your vote won’t count, and you may still be charged, and we’ll never hear the end of it.” Brilliant.
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
I didn’t watch Strictly Baby Fight Club last night, I just couldn’t handle the parents shouting at the seven and eight-year-old children to get into the ring and beat the living cack out of the other child (it was a documentary about young children and the thai boxing bouts they fight, and the parents that encourage it). Here’s a quote from one father/trainer to his son during a break between rounds: “He’s supposed to be the best around and your whupping his fucking arse.” Didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Oh dear, oh dear. Someone’s not happy that they didn’t win a Bafta this weekend. That’s right, big cry babies Sir Alan Sugar and Piers Morgan have thrown their rattles on the supermarket floor and they’re gonna wail the place down! Why? All because the nation preferred Gavin and Stacey at this year’s BAFTAs.
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Despite the fact that I don’t really know what to make of Alan Carr, you’ve got to hand it to him – sometimes, he’s stupidly hilarious. Even though his game show doesn’t really work and he’s associated with hirsute harebrain Justin Lee Collins, Carr sometimes pulls a vicious pearl out of the bag. In his sights this time? Big Brother. The wonky toothed comic said Channel 4 producers were not impressed when he said he hated having evicted BB contestants on The Friday Night Project.
He said: “These f**king morons get kicked out of the house and we have to talk to them.” Naturally, this didn’t go unnoticed. He added; “Once, I was asked who were the worst people we had on the show and I said: ‘The Big Brother people, because what’s the point of them?’ My Channel 4 producer called up screaming: ‘Why on earth did you say that?’” Alan Carr… speaking for 99% of the country there. Give the man a standing ovation.
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Not a quote, exactly, but a piece of brilliant set-dressing from the EastEnders production team that debuted in Thursday’s episode, which for reasons I won’t bore you with I didn’t get around to watching until last night.
Resident smug git and all-round major arse Ian Beale has invited the Brannings round for drinks so he can bang on about his forthcoming visit to the Palace, but the evening doesn’t quite go as planned and the guests have to leave early (much to their relief). As they exit the Beale household through the back gate, the work of local fly-posters is revealed. The wall on both sides of the gate is plastered with multiple copies of a poster for fictional band “Dining with Chimps.” Classic.
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
There’s a website where people share their earliest memory which each other. One memory lovingly reads “drinking warm milk by African violets, watching the Seattle rain fall” whilst another reads “standing outside in the sunlight with my family after planting three pine trees, one for each of us children…”. It’s all very touching. My earliest memory is being in my cot, staring up at my mobile and laughing at the music it made. If you asked Chanelle from Big Brother 8, she’d answer ‘getting a boob job’.
Chanelle is considering having a boob job so she can become a Page 3 model. She told the Daily Star: “I’ve never thought about going on Page 3 because I didn’t think my boobs were big enough… but you never know, that might change when I get them done!” About implants, the BB8 reject stated “I’ve dreamed about it for most of my life but never really had the guts or the money to go through with it and now there are experts out there who actually want to do it for free. I can’t believe it. I have wanted to have a boob job ever since I can remember.” TV is breeding some morons at the moment… can we have a rest from them please?
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Paul O’Grady has stated that he would quit his show if he found out that his viewers had been conned out of money. The king of the mid afternoon talk show claims that presenters of shows that have been found guilty of the scandalous practice should leave the programme… and to be honest, I think he has a point.
Recently Ant and Dec’s shows Saturday Night Takeaway and Gameshow Marathon were revealed to have conned money from viewers, while Richard and Judy’s show was named and shamed earlier this year. O’Grady declared that if it were him he would quit, telling The Sun: “If it was my show, I’d probably leave. If you were running a pub and your name was over the door and someone was selling drugs in there then you’d be liable. If your name is connected to a show but you don’t know what’s going on with it, you need to take more notice. I think it’s good this stuff has been exposed. If it wasn’t for the viewers we wouldn’t be here, and if they’re being ripped off then it needs to stop.” Fair play to the lad!
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
So after all the hype, last night saw the Primetime Emmys dished out for the 59th time. Some of the results were expected, some less so while all eyes were on Ryan Seacrest in his first time hosting the event. The theatre-in-the-round stage proved unpopular, but here at TV Scoop we give you the inside scoop on the events: who embarrassed themselves, who made it all look effortlessly easy and who wants to join Desperate Housewives? It’s all in our speeches round-up.
Host Ryan Seacrest used his opening speech to mock his own role as MC: “There are over 6,000 people here tonight. All of them talented, all of them looking incredible, all of them passed on hosting this year” while also making time to include TV hot property Hayden Panetierre (Claire Bennet in Heroes): “Congratulations on turning 18. My gift to you – seating you as far away as possible from Jeremy Piven.”
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Tags: 59th Primetime Emmy Awards, awards, ceremony, Emmy Awards, Emmys, host, presenter, quotes, Ryan Seacrest, Sally Field, speeches
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
“I keep thinking I’m going to be put out to grass for a bit and then along comes another extraordinary storyline,” says veteran of the cobbles Helen Worth, who makes it clear in today’s News of the World that she has no intention of quitting her part in the UK’s top soap Coronation Street.
Why Helen! Whoever suggested you would? Methinks this another snippet of news that isn’t really news. Someone saying they’re not going to do something that no-one expected them to do in the first place. 56-year-old Helen has played Gail Platt for 33 years. Like Ken Barlow and Emily Bishop, to name but two, you can’t really imagine them doing anything else.
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
The following quote has quite made my day and so I grin broadly as I type this for your consumption. Fearne Cotton, a TV ‘personality’ guaranteed to get my teeth grinding and face grimacing through her presence, has promised to retire in six years. The wannabe has commented that: ‘I’m working hard now so I can retire by 30 and do nothing but bake cakes, make jam, have babies and wear gingham.’
Has she also made arrangements to be living in the ‘50s? The prospect of retiring young is one that is universally appealing, but the notion that a woman has to pack away her career ambitions to raise a family seems a bit outdated. Please keep your promise Fearne, it would be cruel to tease a girl. Six years is no time to wait at all – the clock is officially ticking.
[via Now magazine]
Tags: children, family, Fearne Cotton, host, presenter, quote, retire, TV
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
I don’t watch the Friday Night Project and so only really know host Alan Carr for having a high-pitched voice and squealing a lot. It seems that I was wrong to think of the camp comedian in such innocent terms as he has let rip a potty-mouthed outburst against Big Brother: ““I hate it. It’s the one thing that p***** me off on the Friday Night Project. These f****** morons get kicked out of the house and we have to talk to them. We had Shabnam on and it was irritating. She said to Mel C, ‘I’m so proud of you’, which must have thrilled her, eh?”
Carr has revealed that rather than interview former housemates on his show, he would “rather glass them”. Now I’m not condoning violence and always think disputes should be handled amicably and as adults. That said, I’m pleased to see that finally someone is having a go against the dross that dominates Channel 4. When will it ever end?
[via The Sun]
Tags: Alan Carr, Big Brother, camp, Channel 4, comedian, comic, housemates, stand-up, The Friday Night Project
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Today’s quote comes courtesy of the Radio Times and so could have been posted any day since this edition of the magazine’s publication last week, but I’m going to go with it anyway. What the hell, the sun is shining and I’m gonna live a little! I often find myself pushing for American TV on the Scoop and now gravelly-voiced broadcaster Mariella Frostrup helps further emphasise why. “People ask why I prefer American series. Simple: they throw money at them. In this country, we give writers a daily rate and a knitting machine and expect them to write ratings winners.”
And so say all of us. What do you think of the shows coming out of the US at the moment compared to our homegrown efforts? Is Mariella wrong to criticize? Or like me, would you rather visit Dr. House than any of the pasty docs at Holby City?
[image via Getty]
Tags: American TV, British TV, Mariella Frostrup, quote, the Radio Times, US TV
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
Adrian Edmondson’s career might have turned a bit soft since his more raucous days on The Young Ones and Bottom, but the Holby City star (sounds so wrong saying that), is still capable of being a bit naughty when he wants. When questioned on who he would send to the tower if he ruled the world, he answered “The Royal Family. I don’t hate them as people, I just hate them as an institution. They’ll be familiar with the surroundings and they’re used to old buildings. I don’t think there should be an honours list. My mother used to say: ‘OBE stands for other b**gers’ efforts, and I think she’s right.”
And to be honest, so do I. Now, I’m not here to start some big debate on the relevance of the monarchy, as I’m not ready for nasty emails and dog poo through my letterbox, but wondered if it is the place of a TV star to go public with such opinions. Celebrities seem to mouth off on any perceived slight these days, but should they keep it zipped and just get on with their work? In the case of Edmondson, he was asked the question in an interview, but are these, potentially loaded questions, the kind we should be asking our entertainers?
[via The Sun]
Tags: actor, Adrian Edmondson, BBC1, Bottom, comedian, Holby City, royal family, royals, the Honours system, the Royal Family, The Young Ones
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
Think of Vernon Kay (sorry to do that to you) and all I know is that he is some annoying, lanky git from Bolton. Oh, and he’s married to the equally irritating Tess Daly – and between them they are the most bland, inoffensive celeb couple to hit Saturday night TV. Right? Wrong. Turns out Vernon (what kind of name is that anyway – isn’t it what the nasty uncle in Harry Potter is called?) can be a bit of a closet bitch. Just check out this insult:
“You always know if something’s gone out of fashion when people from Hollyoaks are wearing it.” Meow! Who knew he had it in for the fictional folk of Chester? Maybe it’s some kind of Northern rivalry or aware of his own lack of newsworthiness, is seeking to up his media profile by becoming Greater Manchester’s answer to Elton John. Those poor fashion victims in Hollyoaks – what had they ever done to him, apart from look better than his wife?
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
Tonight’s Corrie – a masterpiece of comic writing. Starting with Lloyd’s riposte to Steve’s suggestion that they stake out Eileen’s new boyfriend Pat’s place to see if he really is married. “We’re Streetcars,” says Lloyd, “not Z Cars.” Classic.
But the fluent wit of writer Chris Fewtrell didn’t end there. It flowed from his pen faster than rain falling from a June sky. Once on the stake out, the lads were on the verge of giving up their fruitless surveillance. “Eileen can take care of herself,” said Lloyd, “she’s a big girl.” “I wouldn’t say that to her face,” Steve replied.
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
That Sharon Osbourne – she’s a one. Having pioneered the ‘crazy-rock-star’s-family-fly-on-the-wall’ televisual sub-genre with The Osbournes, she is none too thrilled with the competition. Kiss’ Gene Simmons and his soft-porn actress wife Shannon Tweed have strayed into TV land with their own show Gene Simmons Family Jewels leading Shazza to a spot of potty-mouthed ranting to Blender magazine (as she’s usually so sedate and polite.)
“[Kiss' Gene Simmons] said that our kids are on drugs and that his aren’t messed up like that. He’ll always be C-list, and his wife’s snatch has been rubbed on every pole in L.A. I’ll f**king tear his head off and stick it up his wife’s c**t!” So they’re off the Christnas card list then.
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Speaking to Graham Norton, Barbara Windsor, whose only nude scene (in Carry On Camping) became an iconic film moment, reveals her regrets about turning down a repeat performance in real life:
"I was offered the very first edition of Penthouse, but I said no. I regret it because any pictures of me are silly sexy, I’m always a joke. The thing is, they offered me Penthouse but my husband at the time said I couldn’t do it. It would have been nice to have had a really good, sexy picture of me. The only nude scene I ever did on film was an accident. You weren’t allowed to show anything in those days."
The Graham Norton Show: BBC Two, Thursday 12 April, 10pm
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The past couple of days has seen a right ol’ stink being kicked up. See, Joan Rivers appeared on Loose Women, presumably in an attempt to liven up the cackling stiffs that usually hang off the desks there, and said a couple of naughty words. Basically, Rivers said that the show should get ready to bleep her as Russell Crowe is a “piece of f**king s**t”. Then, Joan was dragged off the show. Stunning stuff.
From: Would you pay for ITV?