Sunshine Playroom

…Adam Boulton. If PM stood for ‘Prize Muppet’. If you ask me. At 10.00 last Thursday, the election officially finished (unless you were locked in somewhere), and a month of strict broadcasting restrictions were finally lifted. For some, like Channel 4's Alternative Election Night, this meant the resumption of no holds barred piss-taking and satire, [...]

The third series of the Sarah Silverman Program started earlier this month in the States, and to coincide with that comes her first cd on March 2nd, a soundtrack to the show containing music from all three seasons. From Our Rears To Your Ears contains ninety nine tracks, including the songs Cookie Party, Poop Song, [...]

Music streaming service we7 have recently launched an ad-free subscription service, offering unlimited music on your PC. And for a limited period you can subscribe to it for only £3.99 a month (it will usually be offered at £4.99). For this you get their usual great service, but will never have to look at or [...]

Tony – London Serial Killer is the debut film from Gerard Johnson that opens in cinemas on February 5th, and gets a dvd release a few days later on February 8th. Starring newcomer Peter Ferdinando, the film is dark thriller that tells the story of a week in the life of misfit Tony, an unemployable [...]

The long awaited feature film debut from Chris Morris (Brass Eye) premieres at this weekend’s Sundance Film Festival. A co-production by Warp Films and Film 4, Four Lions is a comedy about four young Muslims from the North of England who set about creating a terror cell of ‘Jihadis’. It’s directed by Morris, and co-written [...]

BSkyB released a new improved version of their popular free iPhone Sky+ app last week, with many new and useful features added to make it easier to use. The old version has always been a popular application for iPhone/iPod Touch users, allowing you to browse Sky’s schedules and set a programme to record when you’re [...]

It’s January, and with the new year comes a large number of new tv series. A lot are returning favourites, whilst a few are brand new, so here’s a selection of some of those that I think you should look out for, starting this Saturday with the return of Heroes. Jack is back, so are [...]

Everyone loves free stuff, don’t they? And even more so at this time of year, when your budget might be stretched. All the more reason to take advantage of Apple’s forthcoming 12 Days Of Christmas promotion that will run, as it did last year, from December 26th until January 6th. Each day, the iTunes store [...]

The Guardian newspaper this week launched it’s own iPhone app, priced at £2.39. It joins many of it’s competitors ‘on the shelves’ with apps already available from The Independent, The Telegraph, Daily Star and The Financial Times, although so far all of those are available for free. It does have one feature that it hopes [...]

As The X Factor draws to a close tonight, Amazon are offering some free downloads of other music artists that are expected to be big in 2010. Full tracks from Eliza Doolittle, Local Natives, Little Comets, Lissie and Ghostape, and are now available for a limited period from the Amazon MP3 store. If you’ve never [...]