I re-watched Chris Morris & Charlie Brooker’s Nathan Barley last night, in it’s entirety. It is the limbo period between Christmas and New Year’s after all and really, what else is there to do? The usual Christmas batch of television has been even more dire than usual with endless repeats or at least repeats of […]
TAGGED WITH: idiots, internet, Julian Barrett, Nathan Barley, Nick Doody, outrage, racism, sexism, social media, The Times, tiernan douieb, twitter CATEGORISED BY:Ableism Blog C4 Charlie Brooker Chris Morris Comedy News But What Of The Yoof? March 5th, 2014 by Tiernan DouiebI have just been quoted in The Times’ storify of Twitter’s response to the announcement of the demise (and subsequent online rebirth) of BBC3. The tweet in question was perhaps slightly hastily thought through – see here – though entirely accurate in terms of my reaction to a vast amount of television that I skim past, […]
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