I Was Bitten Video Clip
If you go down to the woods today…..
Well, according to Discovery Channel’s new series ‘I Was Bitten’? It’s not going to be fuzzy bears’ teaparties and maypole dancing.
We’ve got this exclusive clip from the show, which focuses on meeting the victims of the most intense, gruesome, near fatal bites from around the world. This particular clip features some great home movie footage of a Botfly Maggot being pulled out of the leg of a guy called Evan Jolley who was infected by it on a trip to Costa Rica.
Enjoy!
I Was Bitten is on Discovery Channel, Sundays at 10.00pm from 2nd August.
The Bill 9pm Relaunch: Exclusive Interview
Lots of great things happen post-watershed.
Bumping uglies, shoot-outs and transgender orgies (and that’s just the cartoons – thanks South Park).
So with The Bill’s much hyped move to 9pm, you’d half expect the opening salvo to include all of the above and more.
Thankfully, we were granted exclusive access to tonight’s episode and it’s safe to say that there’s still everything you know and love about The Bill, only more polished and a better.
We caught up with two of its stars Sam Callis (Callum Stone) and Alex Walkinshaw (Dale ‘Smithy’ Smith) to talk about the relaunch, how it’s trying to compete with American cop dramas and how they felt about the departure of longest-serving staffer Graham Cole (Tony Stamp) and the subsequent fan backlash.
To find out when The Bill is on TV, click here.
Exclusive Bear Grylls and Will Ferrell: Born Survivor Clip
Bear Grylls and Will Ferrell may not, at first, seem instantly obvious bedfellows.
But look at it this way: they’re both insane, they both like pushing things to the edge, and they both love tucking into reindeer’s eyeballs.
Eh?
Check out our EXCLUSIVE clip below for a taster of what’s to come in this very amusing, very entertaining and very bonkers Bear Grylls special.
This July intrepid explorer Bear Grylls takes on his toughest assignment yet and challenges actor and comedian Will Ferrell, star of the new movie Land of the Lost, to join him on a 48 hour survival mission in the Arctic Circle. Bear begins by briefing his partner on the severe conditions they’ll have to confront during their journey, and the worst-case scenarios the duo could endure.
But Will is undaunted, and, armed only with the most basic of survival equipment, the pair set off for the desolate mountain ranges and glaciers of the far north of Sweden. Without losing his infectious sense of humour, Will proves his mettle through a series of physically challenging endeavours: tandem-abseiling from a helicopter, clambering down a one hundred foot frozen waterfall and building a shelter to stay warm overnight in the sub-zero temperatures.
Plus Bear wastes no time showing his team mate what it takes to find food in the frozen coniferous forests, how to improvise snow shoes from saplings and even get a nutritious meal in the shape of reindeer eyeballs!
Will Ferrell and Bear Grylls: Born Survivors is on Discovery Channel, Saturday 25th July, 7.00pm
Click here to see more video clips of Bear Grylls’ adventures, explorations and unappetising feasts.
Flight Of The Conchords Season 2 DVD
Woop woop!
Everyone’s favourite Kiwi/New Yoik musical comedy drama (or musomedyama as we like to call it) is winging its way back onto DVD with its second season. Check out the trailer below.
As if you needed convincing anyway.
Flight Of The Conchords Season 2 is released on DVD from 3rd August 2009.
Four Weddings: Battle Of The Bridezillas
As if your ‘Big Day’ wasn’t stressful enough, Virgin1’s brilliant new reality show adds three rival brides to the mix as the four take it in turns to attend each others’ weddings.
And they get to rate it.
Ouch.
Winner takes all (well, a classy honeymoon of their dreams) in this matrimonial take on Come Dine With Me. There will be tears. Oh, yes.
Jamie T Is Back – Sticks ‘N’ Stones
OTB’s favourite Indie rock, post punk rapper has returned with a new album and he’s heading up a load of festivals and gigs to bring it to the masses.
There’s little that can be said about Jamie T really. Just take a gander at the video below for your daily blast of original and genre-shaking music talent.
Sold?: Bud Light? Hard (Core) more like
Conservative American media is up in arms at the airing of a viral Bud Light advert in which a guy attempts to buy a porn mag (‘Tongue in Cheeks’) at the same time as a six-pack of his favourite brewski.
Unlikely but amusing coincidences unfold into a Larry David-esque cringe-fest involving an old female colleague, a free vibrator and a hold-up which ends with the hapless bloke on the national news dubbed “local porno buyer”.
Well as the old joke goes – I build a thousand bridges, but do they call me Paddy the bridge builder? No. But you shag one sheep…
Time magazine have said that the ad marks “some kind of cultural tipping point, where pornography has soaked so far into the fabric of mainstream culture that it’s no longer seen as a stain” but surely that’s a massive over exaggeration.
The very point that buying porn is taboo is what makes the joke funny. If this weren’t seen as risqué endeavour, there’d be no joke.
Regardless of its appropriateness, Bud aren’t saying “Our consumers like porn”, they’re saying “Our consumers might remember this because it’s funny” – that’s how viral marketing works.
Surely the biggest question is why he was buying a magazine in the first place, when everyone knows and long-running West End/Broadway muppet musical Avenue Q so merrily sings “The internet is for porn”.]
If that wasn’t controversial enough, how about this entirely brain-dead advert for Oven Pride that’s been labelled the ’sexist advert ever made’? Check out our regular Sold? column for more amusing and litigation-enraging adverts….
Metalocalypse Trailer
Packed with satire and sheer insanity, Metalocalypse is Adult Swim’s chillingly brilliant and terrifyingly real story of the world’s most extreme metal band Dethklok. Created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, Metalocalypse follows the band as they unleash swarms of murderous kittens, destroy hippies with the power of thrash and play death inducing gigs. Dethklok themselves are narcissistic and self-indulgent with sales from merchandise and albums of such epic proportions it puts the band as the world’s 12th largest economy.
With guest voices from Metallica’s James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett and Mark Hamill (Star Wars), Metalocalypse is twisted, ear-shattering and laugh-out-loud funny… if you’re metal enough to watch it.
The Dethklok song ‘Thunderhorse’ features in Guitar Hero and the band’s album ‘The Dethalbum’ debuted at no. 21 on the US Billboard top 200 making it the best-selling death metal album of all time.
Metalocalypse is on general DVD release from Monday 22nd June 2009
Sold?: Oasis Call On The Services of a Giant Rubber Duck
June 11, 2009 by Jack Marland
Filed under - Home, Features, Sold?, Videos
With so many competing mediums these days, ads have really got their work cut out for them.
No longer can you get away with singing the name of the product over a few glockenspiel chimes. If it’s not a drumming gorilla or a giant waterslide ride home, the public just ain’t going to sit up and take notice.
So it’s in that spirit, I imagine, that the makers of Oasis fruit drinks have employed the services of Read on….
Time Warp Exclusive Clip!
For anyone expecting singing transvestites and Meat Loaf, we might as well let you know now this isn’t a sequel to the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
What it is however, is something potentially cooler and more mind blowing than that.
We’ve got an exclusive clip of Discovery’s latest show which breaks down some of life’s more fleeting moments into beautiful, HD slow-mo. Check it out below!
What really happens when a person gets punched in the face or you get hit by a water balloon, or when a piece of raw chicken is blown up? These ordinary events (except maybe the exploding chicken!) reveal some extraordinary hidden attributes on Discovery Channel’s brand new series, Time Warp, where an amazing, unseen world comes to light through high-speed digital photography.
Premiering Mondays at 9.00pm and 9.30pm from 15th June, Time Warp uses state of the art camera equipment and editing techniques to enable viewers to see and appreciate things that are normally beyond our senses because they take place much too quickly or slowly. Host Jeff Lieberman, an MIT teacher and scientist with a background in Maths, Physics and Robotics, demonstrates what really happens with every crack, fissure and crash. A punch in the face, the break of a matchstick – each frame tells an extraordinary story of what really is happening.
