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Well it was here anyway. I've only caught a couple of moments and it was usually at dead o'clock in the morning on Channel 4. But the media reaction to it was out of proportion to it's audience. It was a niche show. Now that isn't to suggest that 'The X-Factor' is better because it had more viewers. far from it. But the thing that put me off watching it (and other supposedly greatest shows ever like 'The West Wing') was this constant carping about how great it was, how it was "as good as Shakespeare" and this general sense of the media elite thinking they know what's good for us and forcing down our throats with the bare implication that if you didn't tune in, you were some sort of potato-headed philistine. So I never watched it. Nor have I watched 'Arrested Development' or '24' or 'Homeland'. I saw the first series of 'Mad Men', which I thought was very good but I didn't watch the rest of it. And then there's the latest piece of box-set wankery, 'Justified'... I read a blog about it and the comments were all "oh why is it on a shitty channel, this should be watched by like, everyone" and the teeth-grinding "oh, I forced persuaded my poor sap girlfriend/boyfriend/partner to watch the entire series in one evening, she/he likes it now". Ugh! Makes me vomit... /rant over

I've never seen the series so I feel absolutely nothing about this. I imagine he means a lot to the microscopic amount of media ponces people who have seen this this and rate 'The Sopranos' as the greatest thing since creation (see also 'The Wire', 'Breaking Bad' and HBO's forthcoming series "Amoral Bastards") but to me, he's just an actor in something who died albeit at a tragically young age for an actor...

I doubt it. I think the government would be able to find out by now if that was the case surely!

....or misunderstanding the story about the collapse of a Nissan Main-Dealer.

I think it'd be hilarious if it turned out this was a huge misunderstanding by the international press, Mandela is fine, and the actual person who's dying is Nelson Man-dealer, South Africa's most prominent manager of male prostitutes.

How to remove McAfee software. By John McAfee...

"Amoral Bastards" features a lawyer who strives for justice but is not always successful. In the cases he loses when only he knows the truth, he takes out brutal revenge on those he considers unpunished, because hey, what's justice if it can't be carried out to the letter? Of course every man has a weakness and his is for fucking nuns up the arse. Those nuns are procured by Bishop O'Leary who is in league with the local mob boss (somewhere dank and Marylandy). The mob boss also rigs juries to let off his henchmen, who are of course getting knocked off by this mysterious vigilante. The mob boss of course has his own issues, most notably of his cherished eldest son and heir to "the business" who is in the process of changing gender... Now if that doesn't get Mark Lawson and co excited, nothing will...

I mean, our line of work, it's always out there. You probably don't even hear it when it happens, right?

Alan Shearer does WHAT!?!?!?!?!?

Can we talk about Thomas Tallis's current health in this thread or do I need to start a new one for him?