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January in December
I know what you are thinking, Christmas has not even arrived yet but for those lucky Americans across the pond they can get a glimpse of January in December… The December issue of GQ that is.
Yes folks between the covers of the magazine you will find the gorgeous and talented star of the AMC sleeper [...]
Obituary: EDWARD WOODWARD
Edward Woodward sadly passed away yesterday at the age of 79. In memory of this television icon OtB searched the web to find out more about the man who was TV’s Equalizer.
Edward Woodward Factfile:

Born: 1 June, 1930 in Croydon, London (then Surrey).
As a child Woodward’s family home was bombed out on three occasions.
Woodward went to [...]
SESAME STREET: and the celebs keep on coming!
To finish off my week-long tribute to Sesame Street, I present a number of clips proving that Sesame Street is the place where the celebs hang out!
Jack Black searches for an Octagon

Natalie Portman plays The Princess and the Elephant

Whoopi Goldberg comes to play

Even Mrs Obama knows the way to Sesame Street

Posted in Celebrity, Children's TV, [...]
FEIST teaches counting on SESAME STREET
When I first heard Canadian singer Feist singing 1-2-3-4 I thought it was a brilliant piece of music, but I never saw the educational merits of the song… Lucky for us the good people down on Sesame Street did!

Posted in Celebrity, Children's TV, Entertainment, Fun Stuff, Music, TV Tagged: Feist, Sesame Street [...]
SESAME STREET invites the Piano Men
Yesterday we saw Ray Charles and his visit to the street, but Ray wasn’t the only piano playing musician to make a trip down to Sesame Street. In today’s videos we relive the moment when two other piano men found the way to Sesame Street, the great musicians Stevie Wonder and Billy Joel.

And if that [...]
SESAME STREET welcomes Ray Charles
I’m not sure how many children who watch Sesame Street are into the music of Ray Charles but nonetheless the street invited the late great singer onto the show to teach the kids about the alphabet… And give them some music education at the same time.


Posted in Celebrity, Children's TV, Entertainment, Fun Stuff, TV Tagged: [...]
The Buzz: V
Those lucky American’s across the pond get all the good stuff first, but as they, say all good things come to those who wait… And wait we will, because V is coming to the Sci-Fi channel next year.
So to get your inner-geek pumped up and ready for this ABC re-imagining of the classic 80’s alien [...]
SESAME STREET meets Ben Stiller
Because we all grew up watching Sesame Street the show has no problem convincing A-List stars to appear on the show. This clip shows that even a mega-star like Ben Stiller has a bit of time to spend on the street.

Posted in Celebrity, Children's TV, Entertainment, Fun Stuff, TV Tagged: Ben Stiller, Sesame Street [...]
SESAME STREET meets MAD MEN
I am not sure how many kids know anything about the AMC drama Mad Men, but nonetheless Sesame Street did a tribute to the greatest drama on TV…

Posted in Entertainment, Fun Stuff, TV Tagged: Mad Men, Sesame Street
The Buzz: DOCTOR WHO – The Waters of Mars
The Doctor is back!
Doctor Who fans have been a bit deprived this year after the BBC allowed David Tennant to go and play Hamlet instead of saving the universe from aliens, and the viewing public from crap like X-Factor… Still mustn’t grumble, instead we shall just rejoice in the fact that Sunday will see the [...]
Happy Birthday SESAME STREET
If you have been using Google this week you may have found a few of the characters from Sesame Street had invaded the usual logo.

 
 
 
And of course this is to celebrate the 40th birthday of the most iconic and best loved children’s TV show ever created, Sesame Street… After all if it wasn’t for Sesame [...]
Web TV: CIRCLE OF 8
Wow another new feature here on Outside the Box (the television blog always aiming to give you more), WEB TV, a look at television shows only available on the web.
Circle of 8
Circle of Eight, is a supernatural series where nothing is as it seems. Jessica, a newcomer to the City of Angels, has just moved [...]
TRUE BLOOD: The Quotes part 4 & 5
I’ve been a bit slacking on my True Blood Quotes so this week I present a pair of fantastic quotes from one of the best written shows on the box.
Episode four finds Sookie and Bill take a trip to the vampire bar Fangtasia. Whilst there they make this little exchange as Bill tries to get [...]
The Buzz: Misfits
In my continuous attempts to simplify this blog, I have devised in my little mind a new idea. Simply called ‘The Buzz’ this new feature will present my loyal and growing readership with all the news of upcoming and returning shows that will surely be the topic of conversation around the water cooler at work, [...]
Dogs + Judo = Comedy Gold
Dogs have always had a place in the world of animation. We’ve had mystery solving dogs (Scooby Doo), we’ve had liberal, martini drinking dogs (Brian Griffin), heck we’ve even had a dog attached to a cat (Catdog)… And now we have a duo of dogs who do judo to add to the list thanks to [...]
It’s not quite the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown…
I wanted to post something to say Happy Hallowe’en, but who really wants to watch It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown for the millionth time?
So instead I found this great Charlie Brown spoof, I hope you enjoy and Happy Hallowe’en. Oh yeah and if you are the one in charge of handing out the trick [...]
Python invades iTunes
You may have seen the news that Monty Python were awarded a life time achievement BAFTA for their contribution to film and TV. To coincide with this,  for the first time ever, the complete works of Monty Python will be available on iTunes from Tuesday. As well as The Holy Grail and The Life [...]
New this week on BBC2 – DEFYING GRAVITY
Aside from being a telly addict, collector of music and avid reader, I am also a closet geek.
Sure I don’t go out to parties dressed like Spock, and I have never bid on eBay for a replica light saber, but I have been known to buy the occasional graphic novel, and I subscribe to [...]
HBO IMAGINE coming at you from all angles
Anybody who has ever switched their television on for any purpose other than watching X-Factor or Big Brother will probably already know that HBO makes the best shows on the telly. In fact HBO is so good that now I get excited just by the static intro that precedes all HBO productions. That ten seconds [...]
This looks good… HUNG!
Wow Channel 4 has been busy trying to boost their lagging viewers numbers. First they raided the HBO archives to bring Generation Kill and the first series of True Blood to UK terrestrial TV, and now they are bringing HBO’s Hung to sattelite station More4.
And like most HBO shows, Hung looks like it might just [...]
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