Category: TV

The fantastic HBO show, Entourage, is back on US screens and it’s as good as ever. When is a British TV station going to buy this exceptionally good programme?

The fantastic Lost finished its US run last week. In the UK, Channel 4 have the rights, but so far there’s been no sign of it. So when’s it starting? (Scheduling it properly is going to be key to its success – so 4pm on a Sunday afternoon would not be the best time).

This was in The Guardian last week just prior to his Cannes screening of the Power of Nightmares big screen version is shown.

Looking forward to this on Thursday.

This is a great read at Salon (get a site pass after watching an ad). I’m slightly concerned at the programme’s description as being post 9/11 “fear-based wish fulfillment” but the show’s a blast. But for maximum enjoyment, it’s always worth reading what Dave Barry has to say on his live-on-the-night blog detailing each week’s…

Is the recommissioning of Murder in Surburbia the least likely ITV story ever? I mean, I’m a fan of Caroline Catz, but really? (Still after Celebrity Wrestling, Celebrity Stitch-Up and Celebrity Love Island all coming in the same week, and all with loosest possible definition of the word “celebrity” I suppose we should be thankful…

The comments and letters pages of trade magazine Broadcast have been bristling with columns and letters mainly expressing disbelief that the BBC have not commissioned a second series of Outlaws from World Productions. World are rather bitter about this. You know, a cynical person might think that there was some sort of organised campaign happening.…

SwitchCo has now launched with a mightily impressive website! This is the company that’s going to responsible for getting us all to convert to digital. What that translates to is the company that gets the rap when things don’t all go quite as planned. It’s kept at arm’s length that way.

Doctor Who is scary shocker!

I notice that Channel 4 have scheduled Desperate Housewives to last from 22:00 until 23:05 this evening – 65 minutes. And yet as an American programme, it actually only runs for between 42 and 43 minutes. Since we’re only allowed an average of 7 minutes of ads per hour in the UK, are C4 packing…

This story just goes to show how poor some TV ratings reporting really is. Media Week are calling the 6.2m on BBC1 and 1.1m on ITV1 who watched the Royal Wedding on Saturday a “damp squib.” For some reason Media Week (who in the same paragraph considered the 7.7m who watched the Grand National, a…

I know that I’ve moaned about this before, but I still find it intensely frustrating that just about no publications in this country take television reviewing seriously. Look at the writers you get for film reviews: everyone from Philip French, Adam Mars-Jones and Derek Malcolm right through to Will Self. The serious papers have proper…

Mediaguardian are reporting (free reg. reqd.) something that I’ve always believed to be true: that switching over to digital by 2012 is unrealistic. The report in question from Mediatel Insight (which sadly I don’t have access to since the Mediatel subscription I have is only basic), includes a survey amongst advertising industry executives. Steve Hobbs…