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You’ll probably soon know someone who is. South Park recently returned for a fourteenth season, and has already poked fun at Tiger Woods, Sarah Jessica Parker, and the book Catcher In The Rye. This week it finally set it’s sight on social networking site Facebook in an episode called You Have 0 Friends. As the [...]

The long wait was finally over on Saturday as the new series of Doctor Who returned to our screens, heralding the start of Matt Smith’s reign as the 11th Doctor. And as well as the change of faces on screen, there were big changes behind the scenes also as Steven Moffat took over as lead [...]

Freeview HD launched late last year in the London and Manchester areas, with rollout set to continue around the country. 50% of the population are expected to be able to receive the service by the start of this year’s World Cup, and over 98% by the end of the digital switchover in 2012. As well [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

As time for the new decade started, time for the era of the tenth Doctor finally came to an end on New Year’s Day. Concluding the tale started on Christmas Day, and begun ultimately in March 2005 by Russell T Davies, The End Of Time drew the curtain for many people, and characters, as well [...]

Time to finish off my rundown of what I thought were the greatest tv shows of 2009. Before I do, as usual I’ll first mention a few other shows that didn’t quite make the grade. South Park had another great year, but I’ve discussed that already elsewhere on Sunshine Playroom. Also close to making the [...]