Category: TV

Regular readers of this blog – and there are one or two – may be aware that, although enjoyable, I thought that the recent Channel 4 series Born Survivor featuring Bear Grylls (and know in the US as Man vs. Wild) was probably a little misleading in the way that it was shot. An example…

I find this exciting!

I see from today’s Media Guardian, that Shed Productions’ Waterloo Road is one of the series that the BBC is considering using to fill the Neighbours slot once Five get the rights to the series next March. I’m not enormously surprised to learn this, since I imagine it’s Shed who told Media Guardian that it…

I didn’t see Ricky Gervais on either Live Earth or, god forbid, the Diana thing. But I can’t help thinking that this Jim Shelley piece has a ring of truth about it.

BBC Two is going to be showing The Summer Of British Film with a major seven part series entitled British Film Forever. Of course, there was previously the not-at-all-bad The Best of British Cinema which seemed to be a bought-in series at a time (1987) when indie productions were pretty rare on the BBC. I…

I love The Thick Of It, and I’ve just been watching tonight’s new hour long episode in which we discover which “nutter” is going to stand forward for leadership of the party. Cracking swearing as ever. But can someone tell me why we had to have twenty minutes of it – the opposition’s point of…

The undoubted hit TV show of the last week or so has been a strange talent show called “Britain’s Got Talent.” Now I haven’t watched a single episode, but seemingly 11m tuned in for the final yesterday evening to see an opera singer win (Great! More light operatic albums on the horizon. We sure do…

Both David Dimbleby and Andrew Marr have major documentaries on our screens at the moment. Dimbleby is presenting How We Built Britain, in which he travels the country in his trusty Land Rover visiting buildings that help explain the story of our nation. He does so wearing a pink shirt. Meanwhile Marr is presenting his…

And so it has come to pass… The BBC has adopted its new “squashed into the corner” credit policy with quite dire results. You can no longer hear the programme’s closing theme music, since audio from the top video preview plays over the top. You sometimes can’t read the credits because they’re too small. I…

Is everyone looking forward to mooted new TV channel “Virgin 1“? It’s said to include programmes currently on other Virgin Media channels like Bravo, Challenge, Trouble and Living. And the channel will be available on Freeview too. For Virgin Media customers there’ll be on-demand functionality. “It will be a creative tour de force and a…

In this age of terrible “reality” programming, this week sees the return of a wonderful reality show. As ever, this series sees the housemates couped up inside their newly designed structures. But you never know exactly what’s going to happen next, and there’s minimal interference. Yes, Springwatch is back. And in a completely genius idea,…

I didn’t comment on it at the time, but the best “Continuing Drama” award was given to Casualty. This was seen as a bit of a surprise at the time (As were many of the other awards – and I’m sure Ross Kemp on Gangs is good, but that good?). As I don’t watch any…

Some high/low-lights: The ridiculous charade that is “Continuing Drama Series” when they mean “Soap” Award. The look on Ross Kemp’s face when he realised that “Ross Kemp on Gangs” had actually won. OK – so I’ve never seen an episode, but it must be really good to beat the others: Tribe, Stephen Fry – Secret…