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  • The Daily Show – Back Daily in the UK

    Since it’s easier to moan than to be positive, I thought it was worth giving kudos to Comedy Central UK who are bringing the regular daily edition of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart back to the UK screens from the end of next month. You may recall that it used to air nightly on…

  • The Premier League’s £3bn Deal

    First of all – wow! I mean WOW! £3bn for the new Premier League rights. A 71% increase on the 2010/11 – 2012/3 deal. In the current economic climate, that has to be a spectacular result for the Premier League, and its clubs. But I just wanted to address what it means for all the…

  • The Righteousness of the Twitterati

    Actually, that title is inaccurate. What I really mean is the righteousness of a certain “mob mentality” on social media, and Twitter in particular. I refer, of course, to the apparent view that yesterday’s coverage of the Jubilee by BBC television was simply awful. If you were to venture onto Twitter yesterday – and today…

  • One Night

    On BBC1 this week, there’s been an excellent drama over three nights, with a final fourth episode tonight. One Night tells the goings on over a single twenty four hour period in an inner-city part of London. Each episode tells one side of the story, starting with Ted (Douglas Hodge) who lives in his fairly…

  • Sport on TV – Racing

    Channel 4 has just done a deal with the Racecourse Media Group to become the exclusive free-to0air broadcaster of horse racing of all forms of horse racing in the UK. At first glance, it’d seem to be a good deal, with Channel 4 picking up the rights to prestigious events such as the Grand National,…

  • Promise TV

    [I wrote this on Google+, but decided it should probably exist, in a revised version, here too] I remember hearing about Promise TV several years ago at Open Tech 2005, so it’s nice to see that there’s a real product now available to buy. In essence they’ve built a Freeview recorder that records every programme…

  • When Awards Ignore Social Media

    As I type, BBC1’s coverage of the BAFTA awards has just started on BBC1. We have Stephen Fry hosting again this year. The show started at 9pm. But here’s the thing. I already know many of the winners. Or at least, it’s not hard for me to find out. If I wander over to my…

  • Borgen

    With two series of The Killing out the way, it’s time to move on to the next big Danish TV drama. And that would be Borgen. I say “move on to” it, but as of yesterday we’re eight episodes into the first ten part series. According to Wikipedia, Borgen is the nickname of the Christianborg…

  • Channel Four Shuffle

    Media Guardian has details of a proposed new Channel Four service that’s supposedly going to appear on-air later this year. From what I can tell it’s a traditional linear channel – just one that gives multiple additional opportunities for viewers to catch Channel Four programmes at other times across the week. The odd thing is…

  • Boxsets

    This week Boardwalk Empire season one came out on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK this week. So anyone who doesn’t get Sky Atlantic is able to see what the fuss is about. But I was a little surprised to say the least. Wasn’t it already out? Here’s the thing, Sky Atlantic launched with the…

  • Two Screen TV

    At the end of Sherlock on Sunday I picked up my phone and pulled up Twitter to see what everyone had been saying about it. Since I’d watched it live, there was a lot of #sherlock activity. Amongst people I follow it was very popular. That’s not surprising – it’s excellent! But then I started…

  • Christmas Television

    Now Christmas is over*, it’s time to carry out an appraisal of the good and the bad over the period. Like many, I think that Sherlock was probably the best programme on over the Christmas/New Year period. It’s an incredibly smart take on Conan Doyle, and is a wonderful reinvention. The ninety minutes just flew…

  • Foreign Language TV Dramas

    I think that it’s safe to say that if there’s one thing that BBC Four has given to UK audiences (and there certainly isn’t only one thing), it’s introducing British audiences to much more non-English language TV dramas. Historically, we’ve been an export-only country, with imports not finding a home here unless they come from…