That's where I thought it was going and it would have been a lot more satisfying

The dress was actually almost nothing to do with the monitor the observer happened to be using, but apart from that, you're definitely better than the rest of us

This is a nice little optical illusion, but pretty easy to see through once you know the trick. With #TheDress, for the vast majority of observers you would have to rewire their brains before they saw a different colour scheme and will reign supreme over other memetic timewasters as a result.

Not from little atheist me it isn't. One of the few things I'll defend Gervais on is that if all his atheism blather bothers you so much, you should probably just unfollow him.

I don't mean to say his star has been snuffed out, but people are starting to realise he's got the creative range of a stop sign, especially compared to his contemporary countrymen, and will hopefully desist asking him to host their award ceremonies and voice their cartoon characters.

Between Veep and Black Mirror, I'm liking the current crop of UK/US collaborations. As a Brit, I hope it hastens the decline of Ricky Gervais - whom I consider a national embarrassment at this point - in favour of other comedy exports.

I half-agree with you. I've met plenty of people who don't see what the fuss is with Ghostwatch, but it's usually the low-calibre acting from some of the non as-themselves players that stifles it rather than the datedness and lack of immediacy of the setting.

http://www.dailymotion.com/… The two caveats I always give to people watching it for the first time are 1) please excuse some of the acting and 2) try to have as little to distract you as possible

I personally love both. Scientists trying to trap the supernatural in lab conditions is a trope that is timeless for me, Nigel Kneale had a real knack for it.

I think possibly you're confusing The Stone Tape with The Children of the Stones. Both are very spooky (and both star Iain Cuthbertson) but the latter was aimed at children.

"…it's a neat evolution from the themes of last season" - this phrasing jumped out at me, because I think the general notion of themes, ideas and attitudes evolving, and the delicate task of addressing real grievances whilst trying not to stifle that evolution with aggression, is going to be what ties this season…

Any Lemmings fans in or visiting the UK should make a pilgrimage to their birth city or Dundee where you can check out the delightful little statues built in their honour on Perth Road: http://i.imgur.com/5eU2tr1.jpg

It's produced by a third party who are demanding the BBC cough-up more for the broadcasting rights.

Re-animate Clarissa Dickson-Wright to co-judge with Nigella Lawson, replace Mel & Sue with Adam & Joe. That's the ONLY way it will work.

I had a very similar experience the first time I watched the BBC's one-off Halloween special Ghostwatch on DVD (which, as it happens, has been cited as something of an inspiration for the BWP). I sought out the film because as far as I was concerned a show that made a sizable chunk of its audience believe they were…

That would be fine if her politics were confined to a cultural vacuum, but her words and deeds had real-time consequences for vulnerable groups and AFAIK she remained active well into her winter days. Why should people conceal happiness at her passing if it's how they truly feel?

I don't follow your logic. I don't feel entitled to kill someone because, amongst other reasons, I rob that person of the chance to change and make up for any misdeeds I feel they've committed. It's not inconsistent with that view to be relieved or even happy when the same person dies of natural causes in the meantime.

The Doctor Strange trailer failed to rouse my excitement in exactly the same way as the Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy trailers and I loved both of those, so paradoxically it did rouse my excitement.

If a film has a very good aesthetic but only smatterings of half-decent writing and blocking, doesn't C+ make perfect sense? Or is my sarcasm detector over-sensitive?

In the UK, I've heard plenty Boomer complaints of Millenial laziness and they're usually predicated on the state of higher education, specifically 1) increased drop-out rates during the mid-late 2000s (I haven't checked where that trend is at lately) and 2) the perception that lots of students were skiving 3-4 years…