Category: TV

OK, what genius scheduled BBC Three’s new comedy thriller Funland? Heavily trailed across terrestrial channels, it premiered with an hour long episode on Sunday at 10.00pm. The next episode followed tonight, except that it was actually two episodes back to back. In fact, they could easily have edited out the end credits and opening credit…

As the world goes Bob Dylan mad, BBC2 last night aired part one of a major new documentary on the man, directed by Martin Scorcese. And very good it was too – I’ll be tuning in tonight (or recording it at least, since it clashes with Arsenal’s Champions’ League fixture). But I do laugh when…

So finally Sky Travel is to morph into Sky Three (while Sky Mix gets rebranded as Sky Two). With ITV4 and More4 about to launch, and Freeview getting ever bigger, Sky were running the risk of missing out. Sky Travel had always been seen as a bit of a stalking horse; don’t forget that Sky…

On TNT, The Closer ran Mondays from 9.00-10.00pm EST. On C4, The Closer’s running Tuesdays from 10.00-11.10pm BST. On ABC, Lost starts its second series tomorrow, from 9.00-10.00pm EST. On C4, Lost runs Wednesday from 10.00-11.05pm BST. Why do US shows seem to run over an hour in the UK where, theoretically, we have less…

It looks like Freesat is really happening – that is to say, not the Sky version (a website that took a bit of hunting around to find since it isn’t really obviously located on the main Sky website). It’ll be worth seeing if there’s any of the hyperbole that surrounded the BBC going unscrambled about…

While Mediaguardian gets excited about the fact that the impending October 10 launch of More4 – the new digital channel from Channel 4 – is going to feature Boris Johnson’s dad on a regular basis, I’m far more excited about the fact that someone’s finally signed up The Daily Show. It’ll be interesting to see…

C4 showed Lost last night and did really well, with record audiences watching it. But I suspect that fewer will watch it next week because they continue their foolish strategy of putting the next episode of E4. If you watched episode 3 on E4 last night, and 1.5m did, you’re not going to watch it…

BBC Three have just relaunched their DOG – that is to say, the graphical logo in the corner of the screen that tells stupid people what channell they’re watching (it comes up on whatever digital box they have anyway) and generally distracts the viewer. Anyway, BBC Three’s previous logo was seemingly too small, because they’ve…

Finally Lost reaches these shores tomorrow night. You are going to watch it aren’t you? (At least, if you haven’t like, ahem, some of us). C4 have even scheduled in a nice break to go and cook something nice before you settle down for the second half of the pilot. After you’ve seen a few…

Next week’s Radio Times is out, and I was idly flicking through when I came across this entry for next Wednesday (10th August). I’m guessing that the Antonio Banderas swashbuckler was pulled at the last minute, but wouldn’t it have been easier to grab some stock Holby City photo (a show that is on that…

I’m sure there’s a really good reason why Showtime always block access to their site from non-US IP Addresses. It’s particuarly annoying when you go to the UK version of IMDB, see their big ads for the forthcoming Weeds, and can’t click on them. I know that advertising folk in new media are just beginning…

I watched the first episode of Over There last night, and thought it was really good. Sky should waste no time in getting on in the UK. The obvious difficulty of producing a series set in the current climate, is that you might have to take sides – especially with a conflict that as sensitive…

Dancing With The Stars is the US title for Strictly Come Dancing, and it’s been a big summer hit in the US. Except there’s been something of a controversy over the final and the outright winner. While we’re used to doing the show and then coming back with the phone vote’s winners later the same…