Television executives have lashed out at British fuck-ups, pointing out that they are “nowhere near” as fucked up as their fuck-up counterparts across the Atlantic.

Jim Welsh, producer of popular ITV morning show Trisha, was the first to express concern during a speech that he gave at a meeting of the Talkshow Producer’s Society.
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Ally-fever continues unabated in Britain, with thousands of fans descending on stores across the country to snap up the Season One/Part One box-set, released today. But what exactly is it about the cute young American lawyer that people love so much?

To judge from our research, men and women are drawn to the show, and the character, for very different reasons.
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The animation branch of top studio Warner Brothers has been blamed for negatively influencing two 13-year-old schoolboys in an ongoing inquiry into their attempted destruction of Planet Earth.

The pair, who can not be named for legal reasons, last year tried to annihilate the birthplace of mankind, killing over six billion people, after watching a video of Looney Tunes character Marvin The Martian.
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Playstation game developers Dirty Knee have blamed the “fiddly interface” of 3D design package SoftImage for the less-than-perfect control system in their latest game, Rural Mayhem.

Since its release, the game has been criticised by reviewers and gamers alike for the woefully badly thought out controls, especially in the running around, jumping, driving and combat sections of the game.

Dave Lomax, production manager of the team responsible for Rural Mayhem, told Untitled Document: “The amount of effort involved in making sure that the (female) lead character had huge breasts and a nice arse meant that there was very little time left to perfect the controls. Or the intelligent camera, for that matter.”
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