Category: TV
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TV Tonight
Here’s me defacing a copy of this week’s Radio Times showing today’s TV. It’s part of a very irregular series. Best viewed large.
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TV Programme Making By Rote
Word magazine’s website has a great list of things that people find annoying – or the dumbest things in entertainment. It’s a great list, and you can’t help but nod as contributors add more and more. Someone halfway down the list mentions half-hour TV programmes that throw-forward to the second 15 minutes just before the…
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Aussies Take The Leads
Fringe is Sky’s big new import, and one of the first US shows of the new season to get the full order of shows commissioned. But it’s basically The X-Files isn’t it? Were it not for a bit of Googling, I’d have even thought that it was shot in Vancouver like early series of that…
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The State of the Product Placement Nation
A cracking article from New York magazine on product placement and it’s implications. Well worth a read.
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The Emmy Award Winning…
Sunday night in the US saw the Emmy Awards – theoretically, the most important American TV awards. Now their credibility is obviously nil since the best TV series to emerge from the US (and arguably the English speaking world) has had precisely two nominations in five years and no awards. That’s The Wire. It’s got…
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Maths on Hole In The Wall
Hole in the Wall is BBC One’s new Saturday teatime game show. Imported from Japan, it involves two teams of celebrities dressed in lycra space suits and crash helmets trying to form shapes to fit through the holes in a polystyrene wall that heads towards them. If they don’t make the correct shape, then end…
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Ray Mears v Bear Grylls
You know how I love watching Bear Grylls’ programmes – particularly since he had to tone down what he was claiming in his second series of Born Survivor. Back in May, when Ray Mears was promoting his latest series – set in the Australian outback – he laughed off Grylls. Now Grylls is conceding defeat…
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Picnic Shelved
I never knew that it had been given the working title “Picnic”, but it seems that Sky has decided to put the whole venture on ice. Let me explain, 18 months or so ago, Sky suddenly announced that it wanted to take its three current Freeview services – Sky News, Sky Sports News and Sky…
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Setanta Broadcasts Free-To-Air Highlights Itself!
According to Media Guardian, Setanta is broadcasting free-to-air highlights of Croatia v England later this evening on its own channel! This is very odd. They’re reported to have turned down an offer of £500,000 from ITV. And now, at the very last minute, they offer these free highlights. The story on Media Guardian was published…
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Why Do We Need Celebrities?
OK – it’s a well known fact to people who read this blog or sit near me at work that I hate all reality shows. That said, there are a couple I watch despite myself. The Apprentice is getting close to boring me as they choose a nice cross section of generally inept people, but…
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Paralympics
Here’s a stat for you: Number of hours of coverage of the Beijing Olympics on US television: 3,600 (2,900 of which was live) Number of hours of coverage of the Beijing Paralympics on US television: 1.5 (0 of which is live) That’s right. Of all the US TV channels, there is a single 90 minute…
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Scary Thought About Setanta Football Issue
As the Setanta issue rumbles on with no terrestrial highlights likely to be available for a terrestrial service for the Croatia away game for England on Wednesday, I’ve just had a scary thought. Essentially Setanta purchased both live coverage and highlights of the fixture. But they’ve declined to sell on those highlight rights. The radio…
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Setanta v Terrestrial – The Battle Continues
So if you don’t have Setanta, and can’t make it to a pub that’s showing Setanta, the only coverage you’re going to have of England’s World Cup qualifiers against Andorra on Saturday, and Croatia next week is going to be goal clips on the news. There is, of course, radio coverage too. Media Guardian reports…