Tracy Ullman back on UK TV

Tracey Ullman was a ubiquitous British entertainer in the early 1980s who was so over-qualified that she managed to be a highly-rated TV comic and have a pop career on the side (which included a delicious cover of Kirsty Macoll’s “They Don’t Know”). But Tracey lost her place in British culture when she married anContinue reading “Tracy Ullman back on UK TV”

Is ALL television really shit (and evil) ?

I have seen so much television in my life that my cultural identity would have been completely different without it. From a childhood nourished by magical BBC programmes through years of outstanding telly I am steeped in influences from the medium…and yet I increasingly come into contact with people for whom TV is irrelevant, orContinue reading “Is ALL television really shit (and evil) ?”