Giant Lego Pharaoh conquers Thames. Kilburn ain’t swinging any more. Jerry Springer’s back: appearing in Chicago. BA is checking all its CityFlyer aircraft after the City “hard landing“. The BeXFactor – music scholarship up for grabs Image of Mayor Johnson and the Lord Mayor in …
Violent crime is on the rise in London and you can’t pick up a paper or turn on the news without the latest report of stabbings, beatings, muggings and even murder. It’s disturbing that the Justice system, crippled by overcrowded jails and soft sentencing guidelines, …
Poor ol’ Enders. In trying to be sensitive to the family of Madeleine McCann, the soap rewrote an episode that was to involve the kidnapping of a child. However, instead of offending one family they have now offended many others. The BBC received 183 complaints …
Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) has to be one of our favourite arts venues in London. We have turned up on its rather grandiose steps several times now and had all our expectations blown away – in good and bad ways. Continuing its legacy of eternally …
It was only last night at one of the BAC’s wonderful ‘After Hours’ workshops (go) that Londonist realized that stand up comedian of the century and man behind Jerry Springer The Opera, Stewart Lee was performing! How we kicked ourselves! The good news is that …
“BAC seeks out the future with artists who dance around the edge of sound, theatre and music.” From today until 20th May, the Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) is hosting Burst – an apt title for a short season of performances that is so packed in …
God botherers haven’t had much to moan about theatre-wise since their little outburst over Jerry Springer: The Opera so praise be that Satan has had one of his minions dare to bring another ‘controversial’ piece of theatre to London. A new play by Howard Brenton …
The BBC have decided not to uphold the 55,000 complaints they received over the screening of Jerry Springer – The Opera earlier this year. You can read the full Governor’s report here (PDF document). But it’s nine pages long, so here’s some of the ‘highlights’. …
Apologies for posting out of my normal TV category but it’s simply too good not to post. We all know the huge kerfuffle that’s been going on about Jerry Springer the Opera (reported by me in Londonist and recently updated by Rob). Well someone has …
Just a quick update on the whole Jerry Springer the Opera debacle we reported on at the end of last week. There’s a report in today’s Times which shows just how out-of-hand this whole thing has got: “Yesterday security guards continued to monitor the North …
UK Christians Burn TV Licences Over Springer Opera I really, really, really wish the above headline was a joke but sadly it’s not. The kerfuffle is all about the fact that Jerry Springer The Opera is finally going to be broadcast on BBC2 at 10pm …
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