Category: Media

There’s a guy by the name of Edward Jay Epstein, who writes a column for Slate called “The Hollywood Economist”. I can’t recommend it enough for getting the real lowdown on that blackest of arts, money and movie industry. You know, all the stuff about various blockbusters that haven’t made money according to arcane Hollywood…

Since The Guardian’s revamp, they’ve had the opportunity to print a massive double page picture each day in the middle of the main section. There’s been some wonderful photography so far, and other pics like this one of the earth from space. So today I opened my paper expecting to see a massive double page…

I love reading magazines, and buy far too many. But some of the marketing scams are beginning to really annoy me (As a small aside, people who call magazines “books” should be shot, and then frogmarched down to their local Ottakers, Waterstones, Blackwells, Borders or library and shown what a “book” looks like). I think…

While spousal abuse is no laughing matter, there’s something ludicrous about this remarkable story. I did a double take when I saw it come up as “Breaking News” on Sky News (who, to their credit, ran the story as big as it deserves, despite being a fellow News Corp outlet). [Update] This story gets stranger…

It looks like the Beeb have backed down on the issue of downloads, and there won’t be any Bach Concertos, Suites or Masses available free of charge at the end of the year when the BBC plays his entire repertoire. I’ve argued before how this is exactly what the BBC should be doing – particularly…

I’m not entirely convinced that Sky News have quite got their new widescreen system sorted out. Viewed on a 4:3 TV, there are some strange distortions in some clips, in particular, people appearing wide and fat (as opposed to the tall and thin you might expect). It means that close ups of Adam Boulton become…

This really annoys me. Basically BBC Three (a channel I’ve railed against before, but Funland was quite good last night, and Stuart Murphy’s going, so who knows), has been found in breach of showing Pulp Fiction too soon after the watershed. In the past the BBC has played the film from 9.45pm which is seemingly…

Sky News have relaunched today, and I believe it’s true that their “news wall” is now so big that it can be seen from space.

So how many DVDs did you pick up this weekend. I got East Is East in The Guardian, Indochine in The Independent and Rogue Trader from The Mail On Sunday (sorry sorry sorry). I didn’t get Cabaret from The Times because I’ve already had that free from a paper before. I may have missed the…

You know that ‘something else’ I mentioned the other day? Have a look at Gia’s blog on the new Danny Boyle film Sunshine. This film is looking good, that’s all I’m saying at the moment…

The new Guinness ad seems very timely.

ITV4 sounds quite exciting with some good purchases. They’ve got a few “big” shows which aren’t actually quite as big as they might be painted, like Kojak and Wanted. But aside from the shift of sport onto the channel, including Champions’ League and the Tour de France, it’s the details that make it more interesting.…

Well the new look Guardian emerged yesterday, and the biggest surpise to me was the fact that it was still folded. Seen like that on newstands, it’s now the smallest paper there, although the bulk of the paper means that the stack is pretty tall. This might be a problem on some days. And the…