I started off tonight by watching the follow up show from the Pop Idol final focused on it's winner Will Young which was a show presented by Ant & Dec, featuring special performances from the various contestants in the series, mainly the top 5 finalists.
Will perfomed two duets, one with the delightful Hayley Evetts, who auditioned for Popstars in 2001 and came back in style on her own later in the year.
The song was "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" although as you'd expect me to say,
it wasn't one to beat the Inner Life version.
There was also the first performance of the duet with Gareth of "The Long And Winding Road" which became a single in the autumn of 2002.
I seem to remember the Corrs performing the song at the Queen's Jubilee Concert
in May of that year and their version of the Beatles ballad was slightly better.
Back to Pop Idol, and Darius came back to perform "It's Not Unusual", whilst the delightful Zoe Birkett made an appearance in a lovely green dress with "I've Got You Under My Skin".
Only 16 years old and the youngest finalist in the series Zoe had a bit of a fling with Gareth if I remember correctly.
However on the night I went to see the live show Zoe wasn't well so Darius performed the Sinatra song as well as his own version of "Let There Be Love" whilst Hayley did the duet with Gareth.
Ant & Dec weren't presenting either as this time round it was Nicki Chapman and Doctor Fox.
A very entertaining show though.
Immediately after I watched last night's Panorama documentary looking at bad language on TV and I liked how during the statistics, the music played was old radio themes such as "Desert Island Discs" and "Sailing By", that infamous tune played before the Shipping Forecast at night.
Some of those interviewed included Jana Bennett from BBC Vision, Michael Grade from ITV, Al Murray who's probably a bit too clean to the point of unfunny to my liking, and the worst offender and probably one of my most hated men in the media,
John Beyer from campaign body Mediawatch.
They also interviewed Roy Chubby Brown who I thought had a nerve to criticise Jamie Oliver for his constant effing and blinding
when the comedian makes a living out of it every 5 seconds on his stage show.
When it comes to overall censorship on television, I think ITV are the worst offenders especially with the last series of "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here" where
even words such as "arse" and "tit" got bleeped.
Then again I reckon they want to move away from the fact that the third series included an accidental use of the worse word that can possibly be said on television by a former Sex Pistol.
I never realised that Chris Rock actually said the word "motherfucker" on the
BBC's Live Coverage of Live Earth in July 2007, before 9pm.
I have parts of it on tape although I didn't really watch the event itself as I was too busy elevating and in a world of my own leading up to what happened the following month.
Overall an interesting documentary and I'm glad the focus group at the end said it would be stupid to remove swearing from television altogether.
The transfer of folders from my old hard drive to the new is taking quite a long time but I've switched USB leads to make the transfer a bit faster which doesn't mean I'll risk not even having a show tomorrow due to being unable to bring my hard drive into Uni to burn the CDs.
Whilst doing this I'm reading Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn book and listening to Lars Bartkuhn's new album.
I'll go onto Brooker in the next post but I think that Lars's latest LP suffers from
"third album syndrome" in the same way as Zero 7's "The Garden" in 2006.
It's not really jazzy or loungey enough as I thought it would be which may mean I'll have to start searching for another album to feature on the show in February due to it being rather bland.
At least it's not got Jose Gonzales doing the vocals like Zero 7's album.
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