Category: TV
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Predictions 2015
This week’s Media Podcast is full of their contributors’ predictions for 2015. Lots of websites have lots of predictions, but for whatever reason, I’ve never bothered doing something like in the past. But why would I let that stop me? So I’ve put together a list of some things that I think might happen in…
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What I Watched, Listened To and Read Over Christmas
You may or may not have enjoyed my Radio Times suggestions. I didn’t always follow them myself. But in the spirit of honesty, this is what I did watch over Christmas: The final two episodes of Cabin Pressure were recorded back in February, but only reached the airwaves over Christmas with the story being essentially…
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Radio Times – 25 December 2014
Happy Christmas! Here are some of your viewing – and listening – guides for today. If you can’t read this on your screen, click here. Here are your radio choices! Large version here. My Radio Times collection…
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Breaking News: Most People Still Watch Linear Television Most of the Time
If you’re reading this, you’re probably not normal. And neither am I. You and I probably have a bit of an unhealthy interest in all things media – radio in particular. You probably don’t watch an enormous amount of television – less than the 3 hours and 52 minutes a day that was the average…
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Putting YouTube and Twitter Into Perspective
Recently Enders Analysis released a report detailing why television advertising isn’t likely to be losing out to the internet in the near term. Enders believes that television will remain the key advertising medium for the foreseeable future. Part of that reason is that its scale is unmatched. Ray Snoddy, on Mediatel, expanded a little and…
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Why I’m Giving Up On The Apprentice
This started out as a Tweet in support of a Stuart Heritage article in The Guardian today. But I ended up developing it a little on Twitter and Facebook, so I suppose it might be good to spell it out here. Basically, I’m tired of The Apprentice. It has always been a bit of a…
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Unbundling HBO
I find it really interesting what was announced today by HBO. Essentially from some indeterminate point next, HBO will sell a service direct via the web. Now in a world where we have Netflix and iTunes, this might not seem like a big move, but the pay TV market – and the American one in…
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Twin Peaks – Again
Yesterday I was very excited to learn that Twin Peaks is coming back. I even jumped through the rigmarole of getting a YouTube embed code from a mobile device (seriously – it should be easier). Dear Twitter Friends… it is happening again. http://t.co/r0l9rhK4eB #damngoodcoffee — David Lynch (@DAVID_LYNCH) October 6, 2014 What you also need…
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Twin Peaks
The news that Twin Peaks is returning in 2016 is quite wonderful! In any case, it has been far too long since David Lynch made a film or TV show.
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TV Ignorance
There’s a lot of ignorance both on television and around it. That’s why I’ve never watched an episode of Gogglebox (and almost certainly never will). But that’s not what I’m talking about. It seems to me that as I live more and more of my TV life through a combination of PVR and On Demand…
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London Live
I’ll begin by admitting that I’m not and have never been a fan of former Department of Culture, Media and Sport minister Jeremy Hunt’s plans for local television. I think it speaks volumes that when the applications went in, there were remarkably few radio or newspaper groups involved in bids. Here are media organisations already…
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Happy Valley
I’m not certain why it is that I started watching Happy Valley. I knew that it was written by Sally Wrainwright, who most recently had written two series of Last Tango in Halifax. Except that I’ve not watched that series (something I may be correcting fairly soon). It starred Sarah Lancashire, an actress who I’ve…
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Horizon
This year BBC2 is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and as part of those celebrations, its long running science programme, Horizon, is also celebrating being 50. I must admit that until the last week or so, and I hadn’t known that Horizon started right at the birth of the channel. To celebrate its half-century, Horizon has…