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TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 21st August 2013

It's lonely here. No one talks to me. Some days I don't even bother getting dressed.

Will you come and help? Can you string at least half a sentence together in English? Do you know stuff about telly? On reading this site, are you instinctively struck that this is precisely the pack of hip, young, only slightly paunchy gunslingers you'd like to join? Are you such a fervent anti-capitalist that you reject entirely the concept of receiving money in exchange for your services? Well then contact me, FFS. We're after new writers to do features and reviews, so if you've got ideas and you think you could contribute regularly let me know.

It won't be like one of those parties where you turn up and it's just you and one other guy and he ends up leaving you 23 increasingly threatening voicemails over the next three days, I promise.

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Variety.com invents entire new language

TV News | Ed Williamson | 12th May 2013

If you're me you have to sift through TV news from a few sites most days in search of stuff to be sarcastic about on these pages as if that somehow benefits humanity. As valuable a service as these sites provide in reporting every little story and non-story going, the language of the business of TV is sometimes impenetrable. Read the full story at Variety.com if you've got the first clue what it involves. Me, I don't even know what a 'Ryan Seacrest' is.

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Seven other Smiths songs being turned into TV pilots

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 25th March 2013

If there's one thing that connotes good writing, it's when someone comes up with the title first then shoehorns in a premise to fit it. Step forward NBC's comedy pilot, Girlfriend in a Coma.

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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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Sun headline suggests worst gameshow idea ever

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 29th October 2012

Obviously the content's a bit iffy, but mainly it just sounds a bit long.

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This guy's name is Mark Pedowitz

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 31st July 2012

He's the president of the CW network in the US. Among his most controversial announcements at this weekend's Television Critics Association summer press tour was the launch of new show 'Paedo Wits', in which paedophiles have to outwit each other to win prizes.

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Anderson Cooper: "The fact is, I'm grey"

TV News | Ed Williamson | 2nd July 2012

CNN news anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper has shocked the world by publicly outing himself as a grey man.

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Your pull-out guide to the BBC snooker commentary team

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 26th April 2012

The May bank holiday's just around the corner and that means only one thing: the snooker's on, and we're all glued to the baize. The BBC has made The Crucible into our theatre of dreams in its coverage over the years, but what of the men (and a woman, though they seem to have binned her now) who bring it to you? What's their bloody deal?

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Iron Chef America: the secret ingredient

TV Video | Ed Williamson | 9th April 2012

The drama of cookery and the mundanity of the British bank holiday weekend: I always knew there was a way the two would collide.

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Valentine's Day TV line-up: a guide for losers

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 14th February 2012

Alone on Valentine's Day evening, in a warm bath with the razorblade inching ever closer to your milky-white wrist, its glinting edge promising the sweet, brief kiss of death and merciful release? Don't worry: TELLY.

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