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...He didn’t have a telly, he didn’t listen to the radio, he just looked out the window and drank,” Billingham said in an interview for the British Film Institute....
...When I first started getting some telly money in, I didn’t know what to do with it, and I sort of consulted a few friends....
...There was certainly no expectation that a slot on primetime telly might earn you a free pass into the gilded world of celebrity....
...Once, you joined a political party because you couldn’t find a girlfriend and there was nothing on the telly. Maybe it offered social advancement. Now there are so many alternatives....
...“There’s text messaging, endless adverts on telly and in the newspaper.”...
...I look to see if any of the occupants are the apprentices from the telly, but they aren’t....
...As we exchange five channels on old cathode-ray tubes for surrogate cinema screens showing a myriad of programmes (did you know there are two separate Nigerian movie channels available on Sky?...
...A cinema based on comic books - well, we have had that for some time, and at best (Tim Burton’s Batman) it can seem august, almost biblical, compared with the cathode-ray effluents and the bad-movie remakes...
...“Which means all those people who meet you on trains and in pubs and say, ‘My mate is much funnier than anyone you see on the telly.’ This is our chance to prove they’re not....
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