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The bird is back
From Digital Spy. Posted September 16 2007, 6.04am
Parky won't be pleased, but 70s and 80s children's TV character Emu is returning to your TV screens next month. (more)

Planet QVC: Lights, camera, shopping!
From The Independent. Posted September 15 2007, 12.15am
Switch on the QVC shopping channel at almost any time of day or night and you'll find mostly the same thing: a lady of pleasant looks and mild demeanour sitting in a simple, inoffensive TV setting, holding up an object of everyday domestic usage and explaining, with expressive hand gestures, how it works. A vertical on-screen panel will explain that the device on offer is, in fact, a Remington Nano Gold Wet 2 Dry Hair Straightener, originally costing £43 but available, via your TV, for only £38.50. A horizontal panel will offer the phone number of a call centre where you can purchase the object. You laugh at the ludicrous spectacle of a 30-second commercial extended to five minutes. But after exactly one minute and 45 seconds of the soothing, anodyne sales pitch, it will seem to you like a perfectly reasonable proposition to ring up and buy one right now ... (more)