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Things I didn't know before now:

So You Think You Can Dance? has been axed, and The Voice, which is on at the moment, has taken it's spot. So much for finding out when it starts again this year.

I never really thought Duncan Bannatyne was a nice guy, but trying to find out when Dragon's Den is on again this year led me to find out that he's kind of racist (he said fellow Dragon James Caan had an 'unfair advantage' because being born in Pakistan meant he had a tax break, which is apparently part of the reason why James Caan left the show), and a little bit misogynistic - he criticised a woman who tricked a fellow contestant out of his share of their gameshow winnings (which was part of the gameshow), and apparently said "she took the money because she is a woman". Which is lovely. It's always nice when people turn out to be jerks, isn't it?

Anyway. Other than that I have mostly been a) playing computer games, and b) not watching things on TV. I missed Monday's Coronation Street because there was some sort of football game on, and haven't caught up, which is making it a little awkward to watch the new episodes. Should do that over the weekend I guess. Also, I mostly haven't been watching snooker, even though I do quite love it. I am happy for Ali Carter and Matthew Stevens. Also I have seen Matthew Stevens for the first time, except for vaguely in icons. He looks almost exactly like I thought he would, and I can't tell whether that's because I'm very good at picking out which icons are him and what his face would look like bigger, or because I'm psychic. Either way, hurrah.

Saints Row 2 is going well. I kind of wish you could just stay a scuzzy low-life criminal forever. But then you don't get the respect you deserve. So you have to be a psycho instead. And [spoilers]. Sob. Also I am really enjoying Shadows Of The Damned, but I'm finding it slightly frustrating as well. It's probably the first game I've ever played that is SO combat heavy, and not open world with it. Even in The Darkness, you got to run around doing side-quests, and in Wet, you got the occasional break to just sort of do a puzzle to work out how to get from one area to the next. In Shadows Of The Damned you literally have to do a lot of often pretty difficult combat challenges just to get from one area to the next, and to progress at all. Which can be a little annoying. But it's also the point of the game. And I am enjoying it. So yeah.

Also I went to see Lockout, that film I've been banging on about. I LOVE PETER STORMARE. And Guy Pearce was kind of amazing. I really did enjoy it, it felt quite old-fashioned and sort of B-movie-ish. Which didn't always work, but mostly it was pretty fun. But they did do one thing I didn't like, which I can't even really complain about, because if you watch the film at all it will probably be a spoiler. It was unexpected (for me)! But not that great really. But yeah. Mostly, I liked it.

Oh, also I think I may be a bit in love with Tom from The Apprentice. Everything makes him sad. And none of his team leaders are really good enough for him. I am not expecting this feeling to last, and am mostly expecting him to go next week probably. Although perhaps he will continue to be underappreciated and then exonerated for many more weeks to come. Who knows.

Also Death Valley is on the UK MTV channels (every night at 11pm, weirdly), and I really feel like I should give it a watch, to show there is an audience here and encourage a Region 2 DVD release. Watching recordings off Sky count as ratings, right? But it's sort of hard enough to watch things I've recorded off Sky most of the time anyway. Never mind something I've already seen, and can sort of see again whenever I like. Sigh.

Also it seems like I am, on the other hand, quite enjoying children's programming at the moment. I've been watching Deadly 60 for a while - it is nice, and Steve Backshall is quite nice and enthusiastic - but recently, I've been catching Lockie Leonard after it on CBBC. Which I'm quite enjoying. It's weirdly quite funny and grown-up (some of the time) for a children's programme, although that might say more about my assumptions than it does about the show really. Also, I quite fancy the dad in it. There, I admitted it. I still haven't caught up with Horrible Histories this series though. Missed the beginning while I was at Eastercon, and never watched the shows I recorded of it. Shame.

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Isn't Matthew Stevens beautiful? Don't you love the way he looks at the table and touches the table and is near the table? It's not that I ship him with the table, I don't, it's just that there were four or five years of my life where one of my constant background emotions was MISSING THE WAY MATTHEW STEVENS STANDS NEAR A SNOOKER TABLE and now suddenly I am being fulfilled again and it is pleasing. He's welsh and he has terrible hair and everyone he relied upon for emotional stability died. Did you hear the commentators talking about how much he loved Paul Hunter? They just talk about it for a while sometimes and how heartbreaking it was that he died and left Matthew alone. And Paul's dad went and watched the first session of the semi, and he goes to the snooker anyway because he runs a snooker charity, but he went to watch Matthew and it made me so happy and I love Paul Hunter and I wish he wasn't dead and also that Matthew would win his IMPOSSIBLE UNWINNABLE SEMI FINAL that is actually the nicest way for him to win a match because at least it is NOTHING to do with him because he is playing BEAUTIFULLY OH MY GOD I LOVE THE WAY HE PLAYS SNOOKER, he's playing real snooker like from the REAL WORLD. I hate Shaun Murphy.

I know you talked about other things but I don't know which one Tom is in the apprentice and I am watching Coronation Street but I can't remember anything that is happening, and I only REALLY care about Matthew Stevens. And Ali Carter a little bit, but I can't think about him because reasonably I know that 14-10 is okay but it should have been better than okay and it's not and I don't even hate Maguire, I just can't help but stick up for Carter even though I worry that a win for him will be ALMOST SORT OF a vicarious win for Peter Ebdon which I would not enjoy, but yes.

OKAY THEN BYE.

HE'S QUITE BEAUTIFUL. He has beautiful eyes. And hair. Sadly, as I've said, I haven't seen much of him playing really. I'VE BEEN TERRIBLE AT SNOOKER THIS YEAR. Is he still playing? I might try to watch some tomorrow. PROMISES, PROMISES. I didn't know he was friends with Paul Hunter though. That is sad. I saw Paul Hunter's father opening a snooker art exhibition a young man had made today though. That was quite lovely.

It's weird about Ali Carter being all about Peter Ebdon, isn't it? Admittedly I've only heard about it from you (see: rubbish this year), and generally I quite like 'brief flirtation with the dark side'-type subplots, but they're not exactly two people who I would have imagined being friends. On account of how Ali Carter seems quite lovely, and Peter Ebdon seems mostly evil and emotionless. Maybe he isn't, I know he's done some nice things this tournament (from you). Still. Like I say, it's not really a friendship I would have pegged. I'm happy Ali Carter is doing well though. And beat Judd Trump. I also hate Shaun Murphy. Just generally.

Tom is the one the lady took into the boardroom with her on Wednesday, who she probably shouldn't have taken into the boardroom with her. He is the one who last week was just quietly trying to tell the PM that no, it WASN'T okay to just use cheap ingredients, and this week was quietly working out margins while the rest of the team didn't have a plan. Then quietly told the lady he didn't mind if she brought him back into the boardroom, it was her decision. He seems to be morose most of the time, and nothing ever seems to go well for him. I SORT OF LOVE HIM. I expect him to turn out to be a dick in the next few weeks. And I have not been watching Coronation Street this week, all I know is that I mostly hate Kylie. HURRAH.

He does have beautiuful hair because he is welsh and it is dark and welsh, but he does terrible things to it, and usually people do not say nice things about his hair.

He is still playing, but probably only for the morning, and probably only for a minute, and when I say 'playing' I sort of mean 'sitting'. It's sad when Ronnie is in a world championship, he could have EASILY decided to sit this one out the year when people I love are in semis, but no. Bah.

HE WAS BEST FRIENDS WITH PAUL HUNTER LIKE THEIR LOVE WAS AMAZING AND TRUE, my icon is of when they had to play each other and Paul Hunter broke his cue and Matthew helped him mend it and pretended to break it and made Paul smile and THEIR LOVE WAS SO PRETTY SO PRETTY SO RIDICULOUSLY PRETTY. Paul was from yorkshire and the UK used to be at York so Matthew would go and stay with him when it was on, and when he was left in it and Paul was knocked out Paul Hunter said it wasn't really like being knocked out because Matthew was still there, so he was still in it a bit, and they were MAGICAL. The bbc once made a songvid just about their love and took pictures of them leaning against walls gazing at each other it was the sweetest thing in the world, and Paul Hunter died and Matthew's ability to play snooker disappeared. And then his dad died as well, and he really fell apart and we couldn't even talk to him because it was TOO UPSETTING and the commentary just always went 'well he's going through a really rough patch and you have to feel for him' and you do.

Ah, I remember Tom, how weird was she bringing him into the boardroom? I can't believe he didn't fire her. I can see why you'd like Tom, I hope he just turns out to be inept and not a total wanker.

I hate Kylie a bit but not as much as I hate Terry Duckworth.

I saw a bit of this morning's! I saw the highlights. It's a bit difficult at the moment because I'm mostly sleeping through the morning sessions. I saw the amazing red though. And then the brown :(

I like his hair and how it all goes up to a point. And also how it is a bit messy. But anyway. It's a little sad about him playing Ronnie, Ronnie is playing a bit amazingly at the moment. I liked how they were smiling at each other and joking and stuff. It was a much happier match to watch than Maguire and Carter. Which I see is now over, and has been won by Carter. I think he deserves it, personally, after those seven misses and fouls he had to do. It is also extremely sad about Paul Hunter. I mostly just hear about him as a name and a bit of a tragedy that happened for snooker. It's weird (for me) to think that the current players actually knew him and were friends with him too. And sad.

SHE WAS EXTREMELY WEIRD bringing him back. But she was UNPREPARED, Jennifer. She was ready to say that in the highest pitch she needed to until people understood. I was really ready for Alan Sugar to fire her, they'd even had a clip earlier on about how they hadn't fired a project manager yet. And especially after last week, when he failed to fire that project manager even though he completely misunderstood the point of the task. Perhaps it's a new scheme they've worked out for this series. Or some sort of bet.

They seem to have brought Terry Duckworth back to be kind of a joke villain. I don't really understand it. Although I also don't understand how everyone on the street didn't understand he was building a lap-dancing club just based on those flyers. I don't really understand the whole storyline.

Terry Duckworth has always been a bit of a joke villain to be fair to them. I just hate that he's there and am so glad Jack and Vera aren't there because he always just came back and was heartbreaking because Vera loved him and didn't want him to be a baddy and he's such a boring baddy and I hate him for STILL existing and I want Tyrone to spit at him.

Matthew is lovely and smiley and chatty isn't he? Without being obnoxious. HE'S SO SPECIAL.

I love that the referee eventually stopped calling misses because Carter was sad and pretty and now he'll have to play Ronnie again and I don't even know what I hope.

Thusly:

Oh. They look like should have been an 80s boy band. Were they? Did they do that on the side?

THEY WERE BOTH MUCH PRETTIER THAN THAT PICTURE SUGGESTS. They did not be an 80s boyband on the side. Peter Ebdon once sang a song about a horse on the side, though.

Peter Ebdon once sang a song about a horse on the side, though.

I think this must be a chalky-horse-induced hallucination.

It wasn't a hallucination, but I think it was a lie. I think he sang a song about a clown while NEAR a horse which is much the same thing.

Chalky Horse isn't a drug, it's a lifestyle choice, the bbc 'advertised' it for YEARS but now suddenly everyone's jumping on the anti chalky horse bandwagon. I RUN AWAY TO A COMMUNE FULL OF CHALKY HORSES MAYBE.

Peter Ebdon could help. He could thoroughly detox you with carrot juice.

The side-effects of Chalky Horse were never fully explored. I think it's responsible of the BBC to withdraw their support for now, while tests are ongoing.

They must've been - I can't think how else that photo could've come about.

I've been watching Deadly 60 for a while - it is nice, and Steve Backshall is quite nice and enthusiastic

I sodding LOVE Deadly 60. It is literally one of my favourite shows on TV right now. *blush*

Haha. I watch quite a lot of nature documentaries anyway (when I can), but they just have so much variety on the Deadly 60. And he's so lovely about predators that most people think are scary, and then equally lovely and impressed by little creatures or herbivores that hunt or defend themselves well. I really really like it (although surely they've done 60 by now?)

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