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Hello and welcome to 'THINK' this is where I will write about and discuss what has happened this week in the media, or a particular article which is of interest, a broadcast on radio or television, or just a general moan...and of course all opinions are welcome...


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Saturday 23 October 2010

Show a bit of love for Karl!



An idiot abroad is one of the funniest TV shows I've seen in a while! Karl Pilkington 'the empty headed baffoon' is being sent to one of the 7 wonders each week, to see how he'll fair with the culture of that perticular area. The brains behind this histerical operation is none other than Ricky Gervais and Stephan Merchant. Poor old Karl, he's been sent to China to walk the wall and experience eating toads, then he was sent to India to see the Taj Mahal and all the wonders around it, then they want him to go to Jordan where he gets up to all kinds of antics including swimming in the dead sea with a wise old man, and also has to eat lambs eyeballs and testicles which Ricky and Stephan kindly arranged for him. He then went to Mexico which he states is his favourite so far, and likes the more relaxed attitude they have there nevertheless he has to meet real life cowboys, which is one of the funniest things I think i've seen, when he cries out that he just wants to go home as he is partaking in a 'rodeo' style activity. On last thursdays episode he went to see the pyramids in Egypt which is again very funny the way he explores the different cultures and his constant confusion about why people just don't do things more simply.
Ricky Gervais claims that this is the funniest TV show he's ever been involved in and absolutley loves Karl for just being Karl, saying things how he sees them no matter how stupid or ridiculous it may sound.
It's well worth a watch, and sadly the series is ending soon so if you haven't been watching it the entire time then you must must must buy the series on dvd or you WILL regret it!
An Idiot Abroad is on Sky 1 at 9pm on thursdays!


Everyone has gone X factor bonkers!!!



It's nearly christmas and that can only mean the return of one thing, and I don't mean this in a nostalgic sense no excitement for putting up the christmas tree or listening to you're Grandad's never ending stories, No christmas seems to have lost all meaning in the last few years because this time of year has become the host of one of the nations most if not the nations favourite programme, Yes you've guessed it, the X Factor.
This year has already offered us alot of talented hopefuls all desperate of a shot at fame, in the first week we
saw Simon's band "FYD" get the boot then closely followed by Danni's rather pretentious act "Niccolo Festa" who when asked how he felt about getting the boot, replied in a surly voice 'i feel ...crap', well you go feel crap somewhere else Niccolo because you're not too p
opular round here!
Last week,
to my dismay saw the end of the road for "Storm" personally i felt the judges couldnt look beyond the fact that he was in his late 3
0s and he had previously failed to be a rockstar, they held this against him which i didn't feel was fair
as I felt he had a gravelly, rocky tone to his voice and enjoyed hi
s performances. We also said goodbye to "Diva Fever" the very camp, fashion victims..but I have to admit I did have a little soft spot for them and loved their rendition of 'Barbra Streisand".










Cheryl is wowing the crowd as usual, how is it possible that she gets more and more beautiful every year? But it has to be said Danni is catching up on the fashion front, Danni has not failed to impress on any of the live shows!






Simon and Louis have been up to thier usual tricks, bickering at every single opportunity! I don't get it? Do they get on or not? Because year after year Louis still has his place firmly on the judging panel, yet all he seems to do is make snide, bitchy comments and give his acts rubbish songs to sing, and poor old Wagner this year doesn't even know the songs that Louis gives him. The hunky bazillian is having a tough time, he wants to be taken seriously and wants Louis to give him powerful, operatic songs, but instead he is given 'She Bangs' by Ricky Martin... are they setting Wagner up to fail?.. I think so!




He may look slightly crazy, but good on him for getting this far! I would love it if Wagner won, and brought out a really silly christmas song, would show Simon that year after year he can't keep taking over at christmas! I wonder when the next actually decent song (which isn't part of a reality TV show) will get christmas number 1. I know rage against the machine got number 1 last year but that was only because of a petition against X factor, It would be brilliant if a talented artist just wrote a really good song and it beat X factor this year!