Category: TV

Hurrah!

Finally, the launch of the new [channel] Five stations has been announced. Five US will show, well, lots more US shows. I guess that means wall to wall CSI and Law & Order, although both series are broadcast on other channels besides Five currently. Five Life will be the lifestyle channel. It’s not immediately obvious…

Entourage is the best US series that still hasn’t found a home on UK television. I find that quite incredible considering the number of channels we now have, all fighting for the best of US TV (We’re at the end of the LA screenings now, when, after the networks have announced their plans for the…

Amazon.com has just launched a new online only chat show featuring stand-up Bill Maher, called Amazon Fishbowl. British viewers will know Maher from… er… They won’t know him. But he presents a weekly chat show for some of the year on HBO called Real Time. On HBO you can say anything and it’s a notaly…

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know what was going to be on television, you had two choices. For that day, you could look in a daily paper. But if you wanted to know what was on in the forthcoming week, you had to buy two magazines: Radio Times for BBC1 and BBC2,…

I’ve been meaning for ages to mention the Digilogic PVR that I got from Argos a while back – the FVRT95 (incidentally it’s identical to the T90, but that’s Argos code). For under £100 you’ve got an 80 GB single-tuner PVR which’ll record around 40 hours of television. As it came supplied it could timer…

I’m loving the Lithuania entry. Broadly speaking, the entire song’s lyrics were: “We are the winners… of Eurovision” and “Vote for the winners” I think there were a few boos in the audience in Athens though. I guess that some people take the competition a bit more seriously than I do. [UPDATE] Oh look. The…

If the ad on the back page of today’s Guardian is anything to go by, it looks like I’m going to be avoiding Channel 4 even more than usual for the next three months. Meanwhile on the other side, ITV are somehow stretching out a celebrity football match into a week long event. So I’ll…

No doubt this’ll show up in the future on one of those Chris Tarrant shows, but I was amazed when I saw this advert on Italian TV at the weekend. Did someone, somewhere, think maybe, just maybe, that this ad is, well, racist? Someone’s put it on Google Video, so here it is: Still, at…

I’m not going to comment on the winners and losers, although I don’t have any real problems, aside from noting that the fact that ITV had just one winner all evening is a very sad idictment of the current state of the channel’s programming. But perhaps someone can explain why ITV felt the need to…

More on the new version of The Prisoner announced last November. Instead of eight parts, it’s now a “pacy, high concept six-part drama akin to 24 and Spooks.” Christopher (Dr Who) Ecclestone is said to be “tipped” to star. “If Doctor Who set the standard, The Prisoner raises the bar,” said Sky’s new director of…

I note that Footballers’ Wives has been axed. Good. But there’s a great bit of doublespeak in what’s obviously a re-worked press release: Eileen Gallagher, the managing director of Shed Productions, which makes Footballers’ Wives, said the decision to ditch the show had been taken jointly with the ITV director of drama, Nick Elliott. Jointly…