This granny introduces a BBC program on punk with the most fitting disclaimer she can. Warning of the questionable content ahead, she launches into a shocking stream of swears that are actually pretty adorable coming from a sweet old lady.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, except when it sucks. Take this habit the US seems to have of straight-up jacking television material from other countries…without even changing plot lines or character names.

After a Scottish rugby fan dropped his kilt Friday evening on live television, a battle to keep the clip off of video sharing sites like YouTube quickly followed.

The "SnOMGpocalypse of Death" today has us thinking of the BBC commentator's hilarious meta take on how the news networks report on disastrous weather—namely snow. It's a clever dissection of scare tactics, the word "treacherous," and people falling.

And this isn't the first time Brooker has pointed out the secrets of television. He also showed the tips and tricks of video editing in reality television. And maybe if you wanted to write a nice diatribe about those two videos, you should follow the guidelines for an incendiary blog post. What's the point of even being a Journalism major anymore? Hahaha. That was a stupid question with an obvious answer. I'm sorry.

In this preview clip, BBC America took what was probably the most usable minute of footage and slapped it into their preview. And in exactly zero of these shots did the chimps think to use a tripod, focus the lens, or even take some quick establishing shots. Instead it just looks like a Michael Bay movie.

Ex-Guantanamo guard feels bad about the abuses he witnessed. Friends ex-detainee on Facebook. Ex-detainee responds. BBC flies guard to London to meet and apologize. They crack jokes. I think we've found a 10 pm show for NBC.

The BBC's Charlie Brooker provides a very clear explanation of the deceptiveness and tomfoolery inherent in the process of reality TV editing.

A man built a Lego house that's cold, leaking, and not-so-functional. He bathes in a lego shower and uses legos to scrub himself "clean." All for the sake of making history? Sure, that's not weird at all!

In your finally Friday media column: BBC execs must struggle by on $150k, Michael Wolff looks in the mirror and compliments himself, rumors of office closures at Newsweek, and more on the Time Inc. layoffs.

BBC announced that they may show the 2012 Olympics in 3D. Because, you know, why not?

The movie about the fall of Lehman Brothers aired on the BBC last night. The Financial Times' Alphaville blog wasn't the least bit impressed with the "cringeworthingly hilarious" made-for-TV production. The "failed irony, bad acting and moral superiority," along with "overly earnest analogies to the movie Fight Club" and "a very sweaty OCD-obsessive clown-like Dick Fuld," gave it "the quality [of a] straight-to-video release," Izabella Kaminska reports. We'll leave it to you to decide how the filmmakers fared in terms of casting. From left to right: actor Henry Goodman as Morgan Stanley chief John Mack; and Michael Brandon as "brash tough-talking" JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. Update: Dealbreaker has a clip of the movie here. [FT]

In the Loop, Armando Iannucci's new political satire, is getting near across-the-board raves. It's funny and British! What's also funny and British (maybe funnier and Britisher?) is the series on which it's based, The Thick of It. The first episode:

With the whole Mark Sanford thing going down today it was not hard to lose sight of other, more important things going on in the world, like, oh yeah, Iran! And that situation just gets more and more depressing.

The BBC confirmed today that their star correspondent in Iran, Jon Leyne, has been asked to leave the country by the Iranian government. Leyne was accused of being a diplomatic mouthpiece and inciting violence. BBC's Iranian office remains open. [AFP]

Here we go again - Iran's utterly losing it as you read this, and it's way, way worse this time: there's a potential world leader ready for martyrdom, shooting deaths, more rioting, and a possible national strike.

The BBC reports that Iran's state radio claims that seven were killed during overnight protests.

Fitting: while CNN gets a Twitter beatdown for neglecting to adequately cover the Iranian election, the Iranian government's blocking the BBC's (stellar) reporting of the aftermath following yesterday's results. Peter Horrocks, the (very pissed off) BBC chief, writes:

In your misty Thursday media column: no bunnies for Richard Branson, no viewers for NBC, a shot at enlightenment for America's dumb children, and—finally—a classy new porn mag:

BBC reporter Ian Pannell tagged along on a U.S. embassy-sponsored trip to northern Afghanistan to inspect counter-narcotics operations. His handlers got skittish when their car broke down and flew back to Kabul without him.