Tag Archives: BBC

I’d love to post a live stream of the London Olympics opening ceremonies, which start momentarily, but the BBC is kindly blocking that signal to the U.S. If you try to work around that block, you get redirected to NBC’s site, where you can only view (and not embed) the festivities after you enter your cable provider account number. Fuckers.

(Tipped by JMG reader Duke)

BBC Three interviews the guy who last year claimed that a stroke turned him from straight to gay.

Stay out of the comments if you’ve not yet seen last night’s season closer. Otherwise, dive in and dish.

Clip description: Following up on his 2007 documentary, The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux returns to Topeka, Kansas, for a week-long visit with the Westboro Baptist Church. He again joins the Phelps family on their controversial pickets where they try to antagonise communities with offensive slogans and anti-gay placards. But four years on from Louis’s last visit, there …

On the BBC’s Let’s Dance For Comic Relief, controversial former model and author Katie Price dressed as Freddie Mercury in a recreation of Queen’s classic 1984 drag video for I Want To Break Free. Those are her real actual boobies, by the way.

On the BBC’s Fast And Loose, panelists wearing noise-blocking headphones must discern the title of the song being acted out by comedian David Armand. Sort of like ASL for the hearing. Previous installments of this bit are here.

This weekend the BBC’s Big Picture covered the recent decision against the British hoteliers who had refused to rent rooms to gay couples. Good discussion here.

Yesterday the BBC ended a story about the birth of Elton John’s son with an “opposing view” from the head of a Christianist hate group that has endorsed Uganda’s plan to execute homosexuals. Today Pink News reports that even in face of widespread condemnation, the BBC sees nothing wrong with their action. Here’s their terse statement. The practice of surrogacy …

Pink News reports that as part of the BBC’s story on the birth of Elton John’s son, the network took an “opposing view” from a Christianist who has publicly endorsed Uganda’s plan to execute homosexuals. With the introduction “not everyone is pleased to see such a high profile same sex couple start to raise a surrogate child”, Mr Mzimba proceeded …

According to a BBC investigative report to be aired tonight, children at Britain’s Islamic schools are being taught that homosexuals must be put to death. The forty schools are operated under banner of the Saudi Students Clubs of the UK. Via Pink News: Gay sex is punished by execution, the schools allegedly teach. However, children are told that clerics are …

The BBC is running a series of shorts that uses mnemonics as spelling helpers. Mildly interesting, I suppose, but ultimately a wasted effort in the Google age. (Although I did recently use HOMES when trying to remember all the Great Lakes.) What mnemonics did you or do you use?

The BBC celebrated Stephen Sondheim’s 80th birthday on Sunday with a special tribute edition of their annual BBC Proms series. Here’s their delightfully fruity take on Everybody Ought To Have A Maid. Listen to the entire show here. The second clip is Dame Judi Dench’s take on my most loathed Sondheim tune, Send In The Clowns, but hey, it’s freekin’ …

The music sounds like Pomplamoose.

(Tipped by JMG reader Russ)

JMG reader Daddy Ray notes that the Daleks now come in the colors of the rainbow.

Last month the BBC outraged LGBT people worldwide by placing a debate question on its website asking, “Should homosexuals be executed?” The wording of the question was changed later on the same day and a top official offered a (limp) apology, but many remain furious. Yesterday the network announced a new project dedicated to improving its portrayals of gay people. …