Friday, December 21, 2007
Not tonight Santa
FESTIVE! The Friday Night Christmas Project with Girls Aloud, Channel 4, 10.00pm Labels: Channel 4, Girls Aloud, The Friday Night Project, TV
Hooray, it's nearly Christmas! Unless of course you're one of those people who was feeling a bit like we were last week, in which case: fucking hell, hasn't Christmas been and gone yet? Just to warn you, lowculture will be slowing down a bit over the next few days as we prepare to travel to distant lands (most of them still within the United Kingdom, in fairness, but several of them not having wireless broadband so they may as well be on Prince Patrick Island for our purposes), but we will still be doing regular updates to cover the best in festive telly and other forms of entertainment. To get the seasonal weekend started, we are very pleased to see that Channel 4 have chosen Girls Aloud to do the Christmas edition of the somewhat variable Friday Night Project.
Girls Aloud are a lot more Christmassy than most bands, for reasons including but not limited to the following:
Press shots released this week have shown Cheryl dressed up as an angel for the nativity scene (which also features Nicola as one of the three wise men, a role she was surely born to play), and the Sun, which is obviously never wrong about anything, quotes Kimberley as saying (presumably at some point during the show) she tries to get off with Cheryl when she's drunk, surely to the delight of femslash writers everywhere. This makes the show worth 65 minutes of anyone's time, by our reckoning.
And on a random note, just think: five years ago, we'd all just witnessed the creation of one of the finest pop groups of the decade, and they were on their way to the Christmas No.1 spot with an amazing single. This year, Leon Jackson won the annual phone vote and is heading for the Christmas No.1 with a load of old rubbish. So much for progress, eh?
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Friday, July 06, 2007
Vibeology - now you ask, what does it mean?
PAULA! The Friday Night Project, Channel 4, 10.30pm Labels: Channel 4, Paula Abdul, The Friday Night Project, TV
The thing about The Friday Night Project is that it can be quite good, or it can be quite shit, generally depending on the guest host. David Tennant, for example, was very good. Mischa Barton, on the other hand, less so. We're not really sure which way it's going to go this week, but we can inform you that the guest host is none other than Miss Paula Abdul, which makes this OFFICIALLY THE GREATEST EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION.*
Currently starring in her own reality show Hey Paula on Bravo in the States (note to Living or ITV2: if you haven't done so already, please acquire the UK broadcast rights to this show, thanks), La Abdul has taken time out to pop over and host the popular offbeat Friday night entertainment show. It'll be interesting to see how well this goes, given that her ability to string a coherent sentence together on American Idol is inconsistent at the best of the times, and generally then she's only required to say "I loved it, and you look so pretty". But still! She's Paula Abdul, and is deserving of our respect. This is the woman behind 'Vibeology' and 'Rush, Rush' after all.
So we can expect another round of Who Knows The Most About The Guest Host (tragically, we suspect the answer will not be Paula herself) as well as all the usual features, but what we really want to know is whether we can expect a long-awaited reunion with MC Skat Kat? That would truly make this must-see television. (Incidentally, MC Skat Kat's Wikipedia entry is hilarious: "MC Skat Kat was an animated cat who appeared with Paula Abdul in the video for her song "Opposites Attract" in 1989. Many listeners found this confusing, as a cat is not the opposite of a human being." Well, quite.)
*This may be a slight exaggeration.
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