Jesus wow

So,

Manchester Passion eh? Who thunked of that? The story of Jesus told with some Madchester classics. And 10cc. And M People. And Robbie Williams who, in many ways, is from Stoke. But that's not the point.

 No, MP (as it shall hence be known) actually worked. It had some John Simm lookalikey as Jesus, the doctor chap out of Eastenders as Peter and Tim Booth of James as Judas. Plus some gospelly woman who murdered Cast No Shadow and Keith Allen presenting the whole 'extravaganza'. I'm more atheist than most, but it was a good way to tell an old sotry. Certainly better than the rubbish that Mel Braveheart dished out to us a few Easters ago.

Perhaps it could be the dawn of a whoel new spin-offs. A musical might break the West-End and why stop at Jesus? We could have the the Great Gatsby told with bling-heavy hip-hop or Dracula sountracked by Norwegian death-metal.

Who knows? But at least it shows there are some people in TV-land coming up with original ideas. Which is more than can be said for the makers of Beauty and the Geek.

 Finally, and with reference to John Harris, I must ask why the producers of MP didn't give Pontius Pilate the Happy Mondays' Kinky Afro to sing. All together, 'yippy ya ya ya ya yay hey, I had to crucify some brother today'.

 And so on.

Crufts

This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever witnessed. Surely BBC2 have something better to stick on a Saturday night than some old zoophile tripping up over her colly while dancing to ‘All That Jazz’? Then again, Just The Two Of Us…

Frig

I just lost a big long post about the Baftas and Keira Knightley’s versatility. Damn.

Guess an proper update will arrive on Wednesday.

Anti-plagiarism campaign

It’s so good to actually be campaigning on something that really matters to students and union officers. From today NUS now has a National Plagiarism Campaign. Over recent months I have spoken to officers about they aims and campaigns for the year. I found that for so many officers tackling the issue of plagiarism is top of the list.

The fact is that students aren’t supported. We all remember what it’s like to go into college or university during Fresher’s week. Having tons of paper thrust into your hands; booklets about this and that. Sometimes the information is important and the aim of this campaign is to see that students get the right information about referencing and how to avoid plagiarism. Why not give students this information throughout the year, with refresher sessions at the beginning of exam times and prior to the main assessment period?

At the other end, where students are accused of plagiarism we are calling for greater support and independent advice for students. Often students aren’t directed to their students’ union for advice and representation and when it comes to the courtroom style judging panel there is rarely any students’ union representative who sits on the panel. We are calling for better support for all students throughout this process.

So get involved in the campaign, take the survey, which is on the front of officer online, and help NUS to get better fairness for all students.

Wade in hot water

This obviously isn’t telly related but just made me guffaw in the newsagents.

And the Sun’s front page, which they won’t let me take the picture of can be found here. Guess what their headline is?

Contributors wanted

If anyone else has any views on the rubbish/goods on telly. Feel free to email me them and I’ll put them up.

Cheers,

Will

Pass Notes

What’s this all about then?

Tunnel Vision was originally a fortnightly column in Cardiff University’s Quench magazine. Creator Will Dean realised that the time constraints of such a periodical might mean it would be more useful to put the thing on the interweb.

How often are you going to post?

I’m hoping to make this a daily thing, but odd working hours might stop this, but I’ll do my best to write about UK TV as often as is humanly possible. And not about how I went to the shop to get peas.

 Get going then

Ok!