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Roosters Spot: a 'restaurant' 'review'

TV Feature | Rob Young | 26th February 2013

Probably for just this one time, we're branching out into restaurant reviews. It's cool though, the 'restaurant' in question was on TV so it's still kind of relevant.

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Black Mirror: Be Right Back

TV Review | Ed Williamson | 13th February 2013

You read a million articles a week about the creeping ubiquity of technology. Most of them adopt a negative tone from the get-go: statistics showing the high numbers of online interactions we make are offered as evidence that they're replacing our real-life ones, without the idea that they might in fact be supplementing or even enriching them ever raised. This simple scaremongering fear of the unknown is absent in Black Mirror. It's written by people who embrace technology, and use this knowledge to imagine its dark potential. And it is at times quite brilliant.

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Yeah, so Homeland's gone off the boil a bit

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 19th December 2012

I saw a tweet a couple of weeks ago on a Sunday night. It said: "It's a shame Homeland's shit now." This might be an example of the social media user's tendency to describe everything in extreme terms, but it highlighted a worrying drop-off in the quality of one of the best new shows in years. No, it's not shit - far from it - but it's made some odd choices in its second season.

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Hopes for The Snowman And The Snowdog

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 14th December 2012

A sequel to Christmas classic The Snowman hits our screens on Christmas Eve. I don't know about you, but I'm hoping it desecrates the original and sullies the memories of my childhood forever. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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I figured out what happens next in Homeland

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 17th October 2012

It's the biggest cliffhanger since Sylvester Stallone physically hung from a cliff in the film Cliffhanger. But what happens next in Homeland? I've figured it out and present my findings to you here. [Warning: very spoilery if you haven't seen episode 2.2.]

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Sunday viewing figures reveal Broken Britain

TV News | Ed Williamson | 8th October 2012

Some people just don't deserve a TV set.

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WIN the chance to watch Homeland at the Imperial War Museum

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 28th August 2012

That's right, I put WIN in capital letters because you can literally WIN a thing here. It does involve leaving the house, though. I realise this goes against everything we stand for, but stick with it.

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Homeland: Al-Qaeda operative runs for Vice-President

TV Video | Ed Williamson | 7th August 2012

Meaning Homeland will be a world in which FOX News doesn't have to pretend it believes someone in the White House has Islamist sympathies: it'll actually be true.

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Terrorist vs mentalist: season two teased

TV Video | Ed Williamson | 14th June 2012

I'm not sure which one's supposed to scare us more: the guy who wants to blow us all up or the woman who'd probably chew your face off if she forgot to take her medication.

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Partridge prophecy comes true

TV News | Ed Williamson | 9th June 2012

I'm assuming hundreds of other places have reported this and made exactly the same connection I have, probably months ago. Can pretty much guarantee they've used the same final line as I have, too. But if I don't Google-search it, I won't know this for sure and the idea is therefore mine. They call that plausible deniability.

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