Chapter 7: The NTAs

Hi guys,

Voting for one of my favourite awards shows and TV events has opened, the event in question is The National Television Awards which will be broadcast live from the O2 on the 20th January 2016.

Today I've decided to vote...and give you snappy 1 line reasons for my choices.

If you wish to vote, please follow this link
http://www.nationaltvawards.com/vote

Let's get started!

TALENT SHOW

Nominations: Britains Got Talent, The X-Factor, The Voice, Strictly Come Dancing

My Choice: Strictly Come Dancing

Why: Sequins, Sparkles, Ainsley Harriott and Bruno Tonioli.

CHALLENGE SHOW

Nominations: The Island with Bear Grylls, 10,000 BC, The Great British Sewing Bee, The Naked Choir with Gareth Malone, The Big Painting Challenge, MasterChef, The Great British Bake Off, The Apprentice, Bear Grylls: Mission Survive, Flockstars, The Jump

My Choice: Bear Grylls: Mission Survive

Why: Real challenges for celebrities, exciting to watch.

SERIAL DRAMA

Nominations: Eastenders, Doctors, Home And Away, Neighbours, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks

My Choice: Eastenders

Why: Only one I really watch anymore and has quality storylines.

COMEDY

Nominations: The Keith Lemon Sketch Show, Benidorm, W1A, Vicious, Still Open All Hours, Citizen Kahn, Raised By Wolves, Newzoids, Birds Of A Feather, Not Going Out, Peter Kay's Car Share, Cradle To Grave

My Choice: Benidorm

Why: Tough choice, but Benidorm makes me laugh the most.

DRAMA

Nominations: This Is England '90, The Fall, Vera, Inspector George Gently, Lewis, Downton Abbey, DCI Banks, Last Tango In Halifax, The Syndicate, Doctor Who, Call The Midwife, Doc Martin, Death In Paradise, New Tricks, Silent Witness, Midsomer Murders, Broadchurch, Suspects, Casualty, Mr. Selfridge

My Choice: The Syndicate

Why: Tough between Syndicate and Doctor Who...but prefer The Syndicate and it's actors.

NEW DRAMA

Nominations: Wolf Hall, Humans, Safe House, The Trials of Jimmy Rose, Black Work, Remember Me, Fortitude, Poldark, Partners in Crime, Jonothan Strange and Mr Norrell, Home Fires, Ordinary Lies, Indian Summers, The Missing, The Casual Vacancy, Doctor Foster, The Great Fire, Arthur & George

My Choice: Ordinary Lies

Why: Brilliant cast and story, left me wanting more.

FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT

Nominations: DIY SOS: The Big Build, Fake or Fortune, Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away, Long Lost Family, Gogglebox, Storage Hunters UK, Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs, Antiques Roadshow, Top Gear, Life Story, Eat Well for Less?, Countryfile, Big Blue Live, Who Do You Think You Are?, Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure, The Mafia with Trevor McDonald

My Choice: Top Gear

Why: Think it deserves one last award and will be great to see it prove a point

LIVE MAGAZINE SHOW

Nominations: Loose Women, Lorraine, The One Show, Victoria Derbyshire, BBC Breakfast, This Morning, The Wright Stuff, Good Morning Britain, Sunday Brunch

My Choice: This Morning

Why: Show has awesome content, always the right mix between informative and entertaining.

DRAMA PERFORMANCE

Nominations: There's 58 of them...I'm not writing them.

My Choice: Lenny Henry as Godfrey Watson in The Syndicate

Why: Amazing to see a non-comic role from Lenny Henry and Godfrey was a brilliant character

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME

This is the category with my favourite shows, really tough one.

Nominations: Celebrity Juice, I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!, All Star Family Fortunes, Celebrity Big Brother, Now You See It, University Challenge, Big Star's Little Star, Celebrity Mastermind, Keep It in the Family, The Jonathan Ross Show, The John Bishop Show, The Chase: Celebrity Special, Through The Keyhole, Made In Chelsea, Room 101, Have I Got News For You, Sunday Night at the Palladium, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Take Me Out, Pointless Celebrities, Off Their Rockers, The Graham Norton Show, Alan Carr: Chatty Man, Surprise Surprise, Ninja Warrior UK, The Cube, The National Lottery: Win Your Wish List, Catchphrase, You're Back in the Room, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Would I Lie to You?

My Choice: Celebrity Big Brother

Why: One of my favourite TV shows and had two amazing lineups this year.

NEWCOMER

Nominations: For the individuals, I won't write nominations.

My Choice: Richard Blackwood as Vincent Hubbard in Eastenders

Why: Only one on the list that I've seen in action, and he's pretty good.

SERIAL DRAMA PERFORMANCE

Nominations: The Best of Serial Dramas

My Choice: Danny Dyer as Mick Carter in Eastenders

Why: Quality actor, quality character, quality storylines, quality show.

INTERNATIONAL

Nominations: House Of Cards, Game Of Thrones, Family Guy, Transparent, Gotham, Arrow, Elementary, The Blacklist, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Flash, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Simpsons, The 100, Zoo, Modern Family, Orange is the New Black, Criminal Minds, Hawaii Five-O, The Walking Dead, Bones, Homeland, The Big Bang Theory

My Choice: The Big Bang Theory

Why: Only one I've seen, really good comedy and cast.

DAYTIME

Nominations: Antiques Road Trip, Bargain Hunt, Pointless, Holiday of My Lifetime with Len Goodman, The Chase, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, Coach Trip, Flog It!, Tipping Point, Father Brown, The Housing Enforcers, A Place to Call Home, Fake Britain, The Paul O'Grady Show, Rip Off Britain, Judge Rinder, Council House Crackdown, The Jeremy Kyle Show

My Choice: The Chase

Why: Bradley Walsh...End of.

TV PRESENTER

Nominations: Davina McCall, Bradley Walsh, Tess Daly, Jonathan Ross, Richard Osman, Graham Norton, John Craven, Marvin Humes, Jason Manford, Rochelle Humes, Claudia Winkleman, Jimmy Carr, Rylan Clark, Olly Murs & Caroline Flack, Alan Carr, Mel & Sue, Matt Baker, Nicky Campbell, Fiona Bruce, Emma Willis, Nick Knowles, Gabby Logan, Paddy McGuinness, Shane Richie, John Torode & Gregg Wallace, Stephen Mulhern, Keith Lemon, Alexander Armstrong, Ant & Dec, Vernon Kay, Paul O'Grady, Frank Skinner, Jack Whitehall, Ben Shepherd, Bear Grylls, Philip Schofield, Dermot O'Leary, Holly Willoughby

My Choice: Jack Whitehall

Why: Tough between him, Emma Willis & Bradley Walsh...but There's something about Jack.

My Nominees

So that is my choices, this was a ridiculously long post but I hope it gives you a big insight into what TV I like.

Until Next Time,

Stay Happy,

Go Vote,

and see you soon,

Mitch xx

Chapter 6: YouTube Subscriptions #1

Hello, hello, hello you lovely lot,

Today I thought I would tell you about a few of the channels I am subscribed to on YouTube. Some of them are popular well known channels, and some of them are smaller lesser known channels, please do subscribe to them if they take your fancy. (if you click on their channel names at the beginning of the paragraph it will take you to their channel)

1) Carrie, Tom & Gi (Yes, I'm counting these as 1, Deal with it)

Also known as, ItsWayPastMyBedTime, Tom Fletcher & Giovannasworld.
 Those of you who are subscribed to me will know that these are the channels that the videos on my channel are usually aimed at. Tom Fletcher, From McFly, mainly makes 'Dear Carrie' videos which are basically vlogs or update videos that are mainly directed to his sister, Carrie Fletcher. Carrie makes Announcements, Advice and vlog videos, as well as 'Dear Tom & Gi' videos in reply to Tom and also to Tom's wife, Giovanna Fletcher. Giovanna, or Gi, also makes 'Dear Carrie' videos with the occasional 'Sit Down' or 'chat' video.

2) Philip Green

Philip Green is an impressionist who once auditioned for Britain's Got Talent and made it to the Semi-Finals. He uploads impression videos, parodies, challenges and general weirdness. I subscribed to him because I really enjoyed his impressions on BGT and I find his videos entertaining.

3) Rhett & Link (1,2,3 & 4)

Rhett & Link are the first channel I ever subscribed to when I accidental discovered them while looking for a song about Facebook. On their main channel they upload original songs & sketches. On their second channel they have a daily talk show Monday-Friday called 'Good Mythical Morning' where they do quizzes, advice, challenges, sketches and all sorts of other stuff, they also upload the occasional other video on this channel. On their third channel they have a small spin off from their talk show called 'Good Mythical More' which is where they keep the camera rolling after ending GMM and talk for a little bit longer, usually less structured. Their fourth channel, which I only recently discovered, features bonus clips from their other channel's videos.

4) The Fine Bros.

The Fine Bros. mainly upload react videos, which are various groups of people (Kids, Teens, Elders, Adults, Youtubers) reacting to popular videos, music acts, YouTube stars, news events etc. They also upload original sketches and spoiler videos for YouTube and TV programmes. They also have a second channel where they upload bloopers and extra reactions and a REACT channel where they upload other types of 'react' videos with the same reactors (gaming, opinions, advice, lyric breakdown etc.)

5) Colin Furze

Colin Furze is a bonkers inventor who uploads high paced and energetic videos of him creating things, these tend to run over the course of 3 or 4 videos. These have including, working Wolverine Claws and his current project, an underground bunker for an apocalypse.

For now, that will be it, but I'll be sure to let you know about other channels that I am subscribed to in the future.

Again, make sure you go and check out all the channels, and subscribe to them if you want to.

Until Next Time,

Stay Happy,

Mitch x

Chapter 5: Humanutopia

Hi Guys,

Check out this weeks video before it goes live tomorrow.

At the end you will notice that I talk a little bit about Humanutopia which is an awesome project that came into school this week which is all about putting people first and being happy, whatever that means to you.

Myself and Carlo

So, Tuesday marked the day that Carlo came in and began the process where he got us to talk about our experiences and what makes up happy, he also talked about 'bin filling' and how the programme has helped others. We also played some team/trust building games.

On Thursday, those who chose to, then got their hero training so that they could pass on what we've learnt and what has helped us on to younger years, what we were not told was that we would have to do it that very afternoon with year 6 students from three primary schools in Cowes.

This process was so rewarding and it personally helped me so much and I am very glad to be able to call myself a hero and a part of the fantastic work that Humanutopia does.

In the future, we will have the opportunity to pass on what we have learnt to younger years in CEC with the help of Lauren, who works for Humanutopia as well as going to Island wide conferences with Heroes from other schools.

Please go find out some more for yourself:

Website: www.humanutopia.com
FB: facebook.com/humanutopia
Twitter: twitter.com/humanutopia - @Humanutopia
Instagram: humanutopia
YouTube: www.youtube.com/humanutopiaTV

Thanks for reading again guys,
Stay happy,
Mitch xx

Chapter 4: Sponsored Cycle

Good Morning you lot,

It's Currently 7am, and today I am taking part in a sponsored cycle to raise money for the Syrian Refugees. Throughout today I will be adding to this post in a kind of countdown fashion.

*9 HOURS TO GO*

Right now, I'm feeling fine...not even out of bed yet, and I've got a whole school day before I even need to think about getting on the bike.

*7.5 HOURS TO GO*

Arrived at school, 6th form is buzzing with 'excitement' for the big cycle, starting to kick in now that this IS something that we HAVE to do...Yay

*6 HOURS TO GO*

Feeling alright right now, but there is still a lot of day to go. Am looking forward to it though, BRING IT ON!

*4.5 HOURS TO GO*

Wow, that came quickly...now I'm getting worried...I don't even like cycling, but oh well, anything for charity.

*3 HOURS TO GO*

BLEUGH! Too soon, too soon.

Bikes Are Ready!

*30 MINUTES TO GO*

Here we go, all set up....LETS DO THIS!

*IT HAS BEGUN*

And We're off

I survived my first 20 minutes, going to post this now so go to Twitter @dysonHamer or @CowesEC to see it being live tweeted.

Love you all,

Mitch xx

Chapter 3: Happiness

Hello again,

This week on YouTube, Carrie, Tom & Gi were discussing what makes them happy so I have responded, albeit a small quick reply due to a lack of time for a proper long video, so I thought, as well as posting a link to the video here, I would also write in a bit more depth here.

So, here is the video:

and here is the post in depth:

Being a happy person myself, happiness is one of my favourite things, I like to spread it to everyone I come into contact with and sometimes I try a little too hard to make others happy.

But what makes me happy

1) My Friends.
Friends are always a great group of people to have around, unlike family, they've chosen to get to know you and therefore you find that they can sometimes understand you better for it. My friends always know how to make me happy, not that they need to often.

2) My Family.
Family are the only people who are kind of forced to know and like you, therefore, they know when you are sad and when you need to be cheered up...one member of my family who never fails to cheer me up is my Uncle Pete, another crazy individual...in some ways, my inspiration to be different.

3) Food.
Those of you that know me, know that I like to eat, eating helps me think, calm down, relax, cheer up, get ready and it helps me to keep going...so as you can imagine, I eat quite a lot, but I never eat without analysing it afterwards and deciding what I could do to improve it...so it's not a pointless activity, who knows, I may end up as a food critic, I've thought about it before.

4) TV.
As I've mentioned before, watching TV is a passion of mine, I love it. It's one of the few things in my life that I'm scheduled with, I live by TV which I think is acceptable, bearing in mind my desired line of work.

5) Other Peoples Happiness.
Other people being happy is quite possibly one of the biggest things that makes me happy. Sometimes it just takes being around happy people to make you happy which is why you rarely see me sad.

6) Acting & Theatre.
These two were separate in the video but it makes more sense to group them now. Acting is another of my passions and i do it on a regular basis with other amazing actors, whether it be with those in my Performing Arts/Drama class or with the IWSC or just anyone in general, its a great atmosphere to be around with people who share interests with you. As for Theatre...What isn't to love about theatre.

7) Music.
For someone who didn't really listen to music until I was about 13, it's surprising how much I love it. I listen to it on my way to and from almost anywhere and even find myself just sitting in my bedroom listening to it in my earphones. It had a huge impact on the way I walk to the point that I can't walk somewhere without listening to it, which wouldn't have even crossed my mind 4 years ago.

8) Films.
I rarely watch films because I don't have enough free time to just sit down and watch them to a point that I still have 9 films to watch from last Christmas, however, when I do watch films it does always make me happy.

9) Photographs.
For me, photographs don't have to be high quality, they just need to depict a memory vividly enough that when you look at them, you can instantly remember the day it happened in such detail...Just looking around my room, you will see a whole host of photographs that mean something to me, there is also one of Jon Snow from Channel 4 but we won't go into that right now.

10) The Internet.
The internet is an incredible thing, these days you can do pretty much anything on the internet which is why it's a happy place to be...if you're sad, you can find things that cheer you up...but personally, it allows me to connect with friends through Facebook, celebrities through twitter and you guys through YouTube and this blog, nothing can beat that...the internet is the world, in my pocket.

So, that's what makes me happy in more detail, probably what i would've said in more detail in my video if I had the time to.

Until Next time,
Stay Happy,
Mitch xx