Like most people in the West, my main knowledge of Japanese TV in the past has come from “gosh aren’t those foreigners odd”-type programmes that show clips from gameshows in which contestants have to swim through vats of rotting fish and the losing side willingly commits ritual suicide. If you think that’s all there [...]
Yesterday I brought you Part One of a look at how children’s cartoons changed between the 1980s and 90s. We found that, in general, 80s cartoons were bold and headstrong. They were often toy tie-ins and there was the recurrent theme of transformation. So, how about the 90s?
First of all, courtesy of [...]
Yesterday I stumbled upon a couple of Youtube videos that compile some of the most memorable cartoons from the 1980s and 90s. Being born at the end of the 70s I grew up on 80s cartoons and continued watching a lot of childrens TV up until my mid-teens so I remember much of both [...]
Tonight I saw the most hauntingly beautiful, shivers down your spine ad I’ve seen this year. What’s more it wasn’t even a proper ad, it was a Channel 4 trail for their ‘Disarming Britain’ season which starts next week.
Lasting nearly four minutes, it shows gangs of youngsters aged between about 16 and 25 in various [...]
The other day I talked about how society had obviously not progressed very far if people were getting upset about two men kissing in a metaphorical way in an advert for mayonnaise. I said the first gay kiss in a soap was “nearly fifteen years ago”. Turns out I was wrong. I [...]
Welcome to the 21st Century. If you’d have asked people 50 years ago what society would be like now I’m sure they’d talk of hover cars, robot housemaids and teleporting to Mars for a holiday. Of course, none of that has come to pass (unless you count novelty robot dogs as housemaids, in [...]
