Entertainment For Lively Minds
Over-exposed
Posted by David Hepworth on 25 August 2009 - 8:50am.
Stephen Fry
Top Gear
Katie Price and Peter Andre
Freddie Flintoff
Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet of Crisps
Gavin & Stacey
Friends
The voice of Edith Bowman
(To be continued?)
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Step away from the camera
Comedians in general.
David Mitchell in particular. (Though I do like him)
..
Calvin Harris
Elbow
The Beatles
I have never heard of 'Calvin Harris'
I don't know whether that refutes your suggestion or means I should get out more (or less).I shall Google him to see what I've been missing.
i wouldn't
bother
"I'm Not Alone" is a good track
and Calvin Harris' brother is a very good jazz pianist. He's a good friend of mine. (That's Ed, not Adam Wiles)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Harris
TV
The Wire ?
X Factor
Big Brother
...
Chefs in general.
Madonna
Jim Morrison
Janet Jackson
Oh, hang on I think I might have misunderstood this thread...!
(Although Madonna still works...)
And there's more........
James Corden
Dominic Littlewood
Dizzee Rascal
Lily Allen
Kerry Katona.....
Pixie Lott
I seem to see pictures of her on a daily basis, yet I've no idea who she is or what she does.
Lilly Allen
Amy Winehouse
Dr Who
Star Wars
Boomtown Brats
The XX
Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr
The Stig
Festivals
Stephen Fry
Twitter
Iphone Apps
camping
sorry "glamping"
British Culture
My main dose comes from this site so i'd say
Richard Thompson
Fairport Convention
Prog Rock
Barcelona (the place)
Man U
WAGS
You ain't wrong Chris
I hear more about it from Brits than locals(I live in Barcelona).
And if you live here
FC Barcelona. on a scale that makes Man Utd and Liverpool look like Bognor Regis Town reserves.
Any minor Spanish celebrity (see above)
I've been many times and like the place
but I was looking at spanish guide books the other day and unless you want to go to Barcenlon or possibly seville there was nothing going on.
Sounds like...
a fair assessment, actually.
Ooh no
I went to that there Cadiz festival a couple of February's ago, fireworks, beer, folk dressed up, pouring rain, beer, fried fish, and a distinct lack of memory of what happened the next day. Similar experience in Gijon (Asturias) and San Sebastien but with better weather.
In other news I notice the Beatles are on the cover of the Radio Times
Chanelle Wotshername, from Big Brother
If I see yet another picture of that girl cupping her breasts on the front of a lads' mag I will scream.
tee hee
overexposed, all women in lads mags!
Little Boots
David Mitchell (and I like him but start saying no to producers please David.)
Jeremy Clarkson
Any offspring of Bob Geldolf
Posh Spice
Lewis Hamilton (stop with the blooming adverts!)
Simon Cowell (of course)
Cant fault Hep's selections, especially Stephen Fry. Rather like David Mitchell, the man needs to learn the word no. Perhaps for the next series of Fry's English Delight he can do that...
X Factor wins it for me
I'm not on the fence about X-factor; I loathe it, and loathe the way it's actually impossible to get through life without reading, hearing or seeing something about it, its ghastly judges and simpering mentors, the in-no-way manufactured spats between the said ghastly judges, Susan Bloody Boyle old uncle Tom Cobbley an' all.
Top gear makes it into my personal Room 101, though I gather it's just come to an end, so as long as I avoid Dave TV, where those three twats will be on permanent heavy rotation, I need fear that not longer.
David Mitchell, someone mentioned. Yes, he is overexposed, but at least he almost always provides what Jimmy Young used to call VFM. Same with Stephen Fry, for the most part.
One confession: I've never heard of Dominic Littlewood. Who is he?
Over exposed
The Banks
Kerry Katona
Kerry Katona
Kerry Katona
etc etc
Liverpools Defence
After last night
Rick Pontings Mouth
and Drive Sexy ad
The elephant in the mddle of the room
... is surely the Michael Jackson industry.
(It is if you get your morning news via Heart FM, in any event).
Two Pints of Lager over-exposed?
Really, where?
I'd go for The Wire. It's everywhere. Even in politician's speeches.
Kerry Katona
Michael Jackson
Cricket in general
Cheryl Cole
David Mitchell
I almost feel sorry for the Webb fella.
some agreement
Yep Mitchell
is a treasure but please, we know who you think you are, whether you'd lie to us, what it'd be like living in Devon with some nutty WI women, how far a numberwang can be stretched, that you've got news for us and that you like to mock the week in your newspaper column
Still, next series of Peep Show soon! Yay!
Goes w\o saying th The flipping W*re - sick of journos relating it to everything that happens. Today tied into a piece of 'Broken Britain' on R5 - yes our streets are like Baltimore's (and not John Water's version of the city). Yes we know you've got all the box sets, yes its completely gripping but also incomprehensible.
And in particualr this conversation -
"Oh you're only half way through Season 3 - well at the end...."
"oooh don't tell me, no spoilerz, no spoilerz"
No i don't want to borrow your season 1 box set, yes i know its a slow burner and yes, I know that bloke is actually British. Stop acting like Jehovah's bloody Witnesses with this stuff.
Oh and sport. It's all pish
Over exposed?
The "experts" on Dragon's Den and their supposed business acumen
Our soldiers in Afghanistan
It's not who you see it's what you see
Stephen Fry
Top Gear
Katie Price and Peter Andre
Freddie Flintoff
Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet of Crisps
Gavin & Stacey
Friends
The voice of Edith Bowman
It's odd we all see different people as over exposed. I know it's stating the obvious but it does depend on what media you consume. Top Gear, Gavin & Stacey & TPOFAAPOC are just TV shows in the schedules that I either watch or don't. They don't seem to spill out into other areas (apart maybe for James Corden but he seems to have gone quiet lately.) Friends isn't over exposed it's on all the time! I can handle seeing KP & PA on an advert for a Sunday paper once a week and I guess you have to be a cricket person to see a lot of Freddie Flintoff, I've heard his name on the radio recently but I'm not actually sure I can remember what he looks like. I don't think Stephen Fry is over exposed, I think the problem he is having is that he is starting to believe his own hype in that everything he has to say about anything is worthwhile... it's not, which makes his appearances outside formatted shows quite irritating.
I agree that David Mitchell seems to be on television a disproportionate ammount of time at the moment but that probably reflects what I watch as well.
Other people have mentioned X Factor but I couldn't actually tell you who presents the show (apart from Simon Cowell) as I simply don't see that sort of information.
People complain ...
... that John Barrowman is on tv a lot: he's never been in anything I've been watching.
You're right..
He's never on Look North or Law & Order repeats.
The Premier League
It fills 16 page pullouts in the papers twice a week, dominates the back pages the rest of the time & is the lifeblood of 5Live, Talk Sport, Sky and ESPN. And in the main it's Wigan v Fulham and it's rubbish.
Given the number of recent radio and TV apperances, I'd say...
Mark Ellen (the next Today presenter?)
Eamonn Forde (digital media tart)
David Hepworth ('go to' man for quality music items)
Come on chaps, stop buggering about on the telly and wireless! Get the next issue of the Word out a few days earlier.
A Rich and Varied Bunch
'Arry Redknapp
Adrian Chiles
Sienna feckin' Miller
Lady Ga Ga
Preston (the dopey talentless one, not the fine Lancashire town)
Jack Wotsisname (jade goody cash grabber)
Oasis
The Wire
Charlie Brooker
David Tennant
...........................................I could go on...
I know people go on about the Wire here
but in general most people don't know about it even with the silly season ho ha today the radio bloke was having to explain what it was to a general audience. Amongst my friends not many people have seen it.
The funny thing about Sienna Miller (for all her publicity) is I can never hold what she looks like in my mind. I know she's blonde but she's got a bland blonde face and I swear I can't keep remember what she's like. Also has anyone here actually seen anything she's been in?
Re : The Miller bint
I was thinking the very same thing as I typed her name, although she's all over the media, I doubt I could identify her from a photo.
Most of the floosies in the spotlight at the moment - Pixie Lott, Geldof's spawn, Katy Perry et al. tend to be pretty bland in my opinion. At least Ms Winehouse is erm... different.
The Clash. Did anyone
The Clash.
Did anyone actually buy any of those singles that used to get to No. 44 in the charts?
Robert Peston
Missed him again
It's funny, the only time I ever hear his name mentioned seems to be when people are complaining about him being on everything!
Rob Fitzpatrick
Rob Fitzpatrick's article a few months ago was a truly great piece about people we hear loads about but know nothing of really. If he has any wit, it could become a fantastic zeitgeisty book. Apologies for the word zeitgeisty.
Uri Geller
Preposterously successful fraudster and professional "close friend of Michael Jackson".
Seconded...
him and his bloody spoons.
A week late...
Gordon Ramsey
Take That
Bruno
Not over-exposed here...
... because I don't have TV - out of choice - and I don't read the red-top comics, so I can very easily avoid most of these gits that you mention.