x factor

“Driving thousands of simpletons into a frenzy of ecstatic hysteria…”

Is it just me or could Charlie Brooker’s entire TV career be shot down in five words? Well… why… watch… it… then?

DESERVE GOT NUTHIN’ TO DO WITH IT

On Saturday, I turned down the chance to participate in a football vs. X Factor debate on Newtalk’s Weekend Blend. (Ireland’s World Cup qualifier in Croker that evening clashed with the popular television show.) I told the producers that I find the whole X Factor phenomenon so monumentally stupid, I wasn’t prepared to waste my breath even slagging it off. Just as well I did too, or I’d probably have been accused of intellectual snobbery by Sarah Carey in the Irish Times today. Read the rest of this entry »