http://channelhopping.onthebox.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:02:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Big Brother is really doing my nut in. The granddaddy of reality TV, this show has contaminated the airwaves for nearly ten years now. And you know what, we still watch it. Even me and I think it’s the stupidest show ever made. Sure the ratings are down, but there ... http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/2008/07/04/big-brother-is-a-big-let-down/ Coming soon to BBC2 is a nail-biting two-part thriller from the pen of multi-award-winning writer Simon Beaufoy. Burn Up is a powerful story of love, commitment and divided loyalty. Due to be broadcast in July, Burn Up is produced by Kudos Film and Television, the company behind of some of ... http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/2008/07/03/interview-with-neve-campbell/ The World Wildlife Fund and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature have put out this amusing viral to publicize Connect2earth.org, a website providing information on how to help the environment.  The site essentially acts as a forum for keen green guardians to articulate their ideas for the World ... http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/2008/07/02/wwf-dispirited-superhero/ Cheryl Cole first stepped into the limelight on popular talent search Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. After six years at the top of the charts the former Miss Tweedy is returning to our screens as a judge on this year’s X Factor, replacing original battleaxe Sharon Osbourne. So what’s the ... http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/2008/07/01/the-lowdown-on-cheryl-cole/  Mon. 30th June - Sun. 6th July  KIDS, KNIVES AND BROKEN LIVES Channel 4 Monday 30th June 9pm  Alert Me! As part of the Disarming Britain season, a major new season examining the effect of gun and knife crime on Britain's streets, Kids, Knives and Broken Lives investigates why so many young people ... http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/2008/06/30/pick-of-the-week-monday-30th-june-sunday-6th-july/ Channel 4 need to get their act together on the message they’re sending out to women of the UK.  Do they want them to retain a stiff (unbotoxed) upper lip, accept the shape they are and start being more positive about their bodies?  Or, do they want women to deem ... http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/2008/06/30/rant-make-up-your-mind-channel-4-should-women-love-what-they%e2%80%99ve-got-or-get-surgery/ The wonderful Pete Postlethwaite is back on our tellies in his latest role as hardened career criminal Hooch in the BBC’s brand new five-part crime thriller, Criminal Justice written by the highly acclaimed Peter Moffat.  The series centres on Ben Coulter, who is prosecuted for murder when he wakes up ... http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/2008/06/26/interview-with-pete-postlethwaite/ “You wouldn’t start a night like this, so why end it that way?” Right then, if we’re really expected to answer this question, the main reason for this is that at the start of the night one holds an insipid kind of mindset, more or less believing that looking decent when ... http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/2008/06/25/home-office%e2%80%99s-know-your-limits/ With the Sex and the City movie grossing big-time in cinemas across the world, we’ve decided to take a look at the life and career of the show’s biggest star and style icon, Sarah Jessica Parker. The adventures of New York sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw catapulted Sarah Jessica Parker into the ... http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/2008/06/24/the-lowdown-on-sarah-jessica-parker/ Mon. 23rd June – Sun. 29th June CATHOUSE Five Thursday 26th June 11:00pm Alert Me! This series provides an intimate portrait of life inside one of America's best-known legal brothels, Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Nevada. In this first programme, a woman gives her new spouse an unusual wedding present, and a group of ... http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/2008/06/24/72/