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FUTURE APPEARANCES:


Friday 13th November: Olly will be debating a topical issue on ‘The Alan Titchmarsh Show’, 3.30pm on ITV1
Thursday 19th November: Helen will be talking about the day’s hottest web stories on Sky News, 7.10pm
Friday 22nd November: Olly will be reviewing the papers on Stephen Nolan’s show, midnight on BBC 5 Live
Wednesday 25th November: Olly will be Richard Bacon’s Friend, 10.30pm-1am on BBC 5 Live
Sunday 28th November: Olly will be reviewing the papers on ‘Saturday Live’, 10.15am on Sky News
Wednesday 2nd December: Olly will be talking about the day’s web-fun on ‘SkyNews.Com’, 7.10pm on Sky News
Thursday 3rd December: Helen and Olly will be joining Steve Wright for their regular internet review slot, sometime from 3.30pm-5pm on BBC Radio 2
Monday 28th December: Helen will be keeping Jonathan Overend company as he stands in for Richard Bacon on BBC 5Live, 10.30pm-1am

SELECTED ARCHIVE:
N.B. the majority of TV and radio we do doesn’t make it onto the internet, so we can’t link to it! Hence this is only a small selection, mostly from Sky News. If you come across a link to something else we’ve been in, please do send it to us.

Friday 6th November: Olly joined Charlie Wolf to review the papers on Stephen Nolan’s 5Live show. LISTEN AGAIN. (fast-forward to 2.05.00 for Olly’s bit).

Tuesday 3rd November: Olly joined Ken Livingstone and Carole Malone to debate the pros and cons of celebrity endorsement or political parties on ITV’s ‘Alan Titchmarsh Show’. WATCH IT.

Monday 2nd November: Olly was back on SkyNews.Com, chatting about Stephen Fry’s return to Twitter, crazy carved pumpkins and Facebook’s new HQ WATCH IT. Then Helen was on the Richard Bacon Show with Rachel Burden, talking about fatties, roads & death!

Thursday 22nd October: Olly was back on ITV’s ‘Alan Titchmarsh Show’ to discuss whether the BNP should have been invited on to Question Time. WATCH AGAIN WITH ITV PLAYER (fast-forward to approx 24.20 for his bit).

Wednesday 14th October: Olly took part in a debate about the North-South divide on ITV’s ‘Alan Titchmarsh Show’. WATCH AGAIN .

Wednesday 7th October: Olly did his thang on SkyNews.Com, chatting about the fictional lesbian township in Northern Sweden. Honestly! WATCH IT.

Sunday 4th October: We got to guest for an hour on ‘The Jon Richardson Show’ on BBC 6 Music – one of our very favourite radio shows. HEAR A CLIP.

Friday 25th September: Helen and Olly appeared on Radio 2’s ‘Steve Wright in the Afternoon’ for their regular web review slot, and talked about the internet addiction clinic reSTART, and the fake celebrity accounts on Twitter. LISTEN AGAIN.

Friday 18th September: Olly made one of his regular appearances reviewing the newspapers on ‘Sunrise’ with Mark Longhurst on Sky News, and amongst other things discussed compulsory cycling helmets for children and Google’s digitization of the world’s books. WATCH IT.

Tuesday 22nd September: Helen popped up on SkyNews.Com, talking about Style Rookie and The Beatles vs. Jesus 2.0. WATCH IT.

Wednesday 19th August : Olly was on SkyNews.Com, talking about Michael Jackson’s doctor and model Liskula Cohen. WATCH IT.

Monday 3rd August: Helen did her bit on SkyNews.Com, yapping about Google, Archbishops, and Hedonometers. WATCH IT.

Wednesday 22nd July: Olly popped up on SkyNews.Com to talk about baboons with ASBOs, a Cannabis app for iPhone and Google on the Moon. WATCH IT.

Friday 8th May: Olly reviewed the papers on Sky News’s ‘Sunrise’ and discussed the latest goss about Gordon Brown, Joanna Lumley and, um, Napoleon Bonaparte. WATCH IT.

Saturday 18th April: Olly joined Sky News’s ‘Saturday Live’ programme to discuss the death of the local newspaper industry and the influence of online journalism. WATCH IT.

Thursday 26th March: Helen and Olly joined Ian Collins for The Late Show on TalkSport radio. Amongst other things, they reviewed the morning’s papers and discussed panto, daytime television and the secrets of iTunes chart success. HEAR A CLIP.

Tuesday 24th March: Olly was on SkyNews.Com, slagging off iPhones, but it was jealousy really, because he wants one. WATCH IT.

Monday 23rd March: Helen, Olly and Martin are interviewed for BBC 5 Live’s ‘Pods and Blogs’ programme. LISTEN AGAIN.

Friday 20th March: Helen was talking through the lastest web-stories on Sky News.Com, including the undesirables popping up on Google StreetView. WATCH IT.

Wednesday 18th March: Helen and Olly promoted their appearance at the London Word Festival, and generally had a jolly nice time, on Nemone’s show on BBC 6 Music. HEAR A CLIP.

11th March: Olly (ooh, with his specs on!) chatted about Google Maps, Billy Corgan and cannabis on ‘SkyNews.Com’ (WATCH IT)

4th March 2009: Helen guests on SkyNews.com and discusses fish with human faces and God’s answerphone message WATCH IT.

24th February 2009: Olly is on Sky News.Com ‘explaining the science of why we love cute aninmals’. WATCH IT.

4th February 2009: Olly appears on SkyNews.com and talks about Paris Hilton’s plan to rescue the world economy. WATCH IT

9th January 2009: Helen pops up on SkyNews.Com and talks about Barack Obama’s cameo in a forthcoming SpiderMan comic. WATCH IT.

2008
11th December: On Skynews.com, Helen warns everyone about the world ending in 2012. WATCH IT, doom-lovers!

9th December: Olly guests on Skynews.com and talks about Barack Obama conspiracy theories, Jessica Alba’s tits and Christmas jumpers. WATCH IT.

29th October: In a brief hiatus from leaving rude messages on elderly actors’ answerphones, Helen appears on Skynews.com to talk about ping-pong robots. WATCH IT.

7 October: As the world economy crumbles, Olly is on Sky News talking about a cat. WATCH IT.

26 August: Helen suggests on Sky.com/News that Madonna is attention-seeking. What an insight! WATCH IT.

19th August: on ITV’s This Morning, Olly talks live to Ivy Bean, the world’s oldest person on Facebook. It’s quite a weird moment. WATCH IT.

22 July : Olly is web-watching for ITV’s This Morning, and causes host Ruth Langsford to laugh for some considerable time about a farting bunny rabbit. This would never happen with Helen. WATCH IT.

16 July: Olly appears on BBC 5Live, debating whether Russell Brand was right to call a police helpline during a live stage appearance. Foreshadowing! HEAR A CLIP.

15 July: Olly talks about saucy Miley Cyrus, ‘the internet’s jailbait du jour’, on SkyNews.Com. WATCH IT.

17 June: Olly is back on This Morning, comparing driving test failures with Fern Britton and speculating about cellphone popcorn. WATCH IT

10 June: Olly admits to the audience of Sky.Com News that his degree came thanks to the good people at York Notes. Also, he attempts to be amusing about the salmonella scare in the USA. That should definitely nab us some more American listeners, eh? WATCH IT

4 June: Olly guests on ITV’s This Morning and talks about Weezer’s new song, ‘Pork and Beans’. Rock! WATCH IT.

20 May: Helen and Olly give their ‘Top 5 tips’ to become a hit podcast on Sky News’s Technofile Podcast. WATCH IT.

14 May: Helen and Olly are guests on new web chat show Sky News Unplugged. Along with UFO expert Nick Pope and MP Ian Cawsey, bassist in ‘the world’s only parliamentary rock group’ MP4, they discuss singing to Tony Blair and mysterious objects flying over Stanmore. WATCH IT, or download it as a podcast.

28 April: Olly discusses that risque photo of teen star Miley Cyrus on Sky’s paper preview. WATCH A CLIP.

7th February: Helen is back on SkyNews.Com, chatting about parents confusing their babies with booze and blogging about the former lives of celebs.

17th January: It’s our first ever joint TV appearance, discussing our amazing adventure in Luxembourg on Sky News. WATCH IT.

7th July 2007: We are guests on JCast, the podcast of the Jewish Community Centre, London, (since renamed ‘Sounds Jewish’ and produced in association with The Guardian). LISTEN AGAIN.

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3 Responses to “Turn on, Tune in. Cop out?”

  1. Tony Trainor Says:

    Loved the web reviews on Sky News today, Wednesday March 4… proof that when you’re blogging, content (and preferably other people’s) is king when you’re establishing a little empire on the internet. Also congratulations to AMT for proving that even the default theme at WordPress.com can be a style icon when it’s backed up by good content! All power to your two fingers… I’m off to enrol for my Beatles degree.

  2. Gareth unwell Says:

    Or not

  3. Gareth from Glasgow Says:

    Can’t wait to see you doing the paper review on the 20th October!

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