Category: TV

Interesting Newsday about the new HBO show “K Street”. I still have to watch the first two episodes (which I have downloaded).

White Horses is one those TV series I remember from my childhood with enormous fondness. But now comes the news that its theme song by Jacky, which reached No. 10 in the UK charts in April 1968, has been voted the best theme ever in a poll to publicise a new edition of Penguin’s Television…

My tape reruns have reached the end of series 2, and I guess that by common consent, the quality goes a little downhill from here on – well at the very least, it goes off the rails a bit. (I know that I’ve inadvertantly taped over at least one episode somewhere along the lines, so…

What a pity that CNN Europe doesn’t broadcast Reliable Sources over here. There really are few media outlets for the discussion of media. About the only place you can get anything is on Radio 4’s The Message. Years ago there was Ray Snoddy’s show on Channel 4, and the various follow ups of sorts. But…

Was I unnecessarily negative about this idea the other day? There’s quite a lot of detail about the whys and wherefores of how it might work here. Sadly I can see lots of David Attenbrough and Simon Schama footage being available to download, rather than all those Plays For Today that I fancy seeing. Danny…

Yesterday’s Observer carried an interesting piece by Richard Ingrams – Ppp-Up TV. Ingram’s main point was that Stuart Murphy, BBC Three’s wunderkind controller, has been quoted as saying that BBC Three’s news directly targeted its 16-34 audience, and it did that by skewing its news towards stories that specifically interested them. These, he’s reported as…

Can some kind TV channel in the UK please show K Street? It’s an HBO production (come on guys – I thought we bought anything by HBO these days?), set in the Washington world of political consultants and spin doctors. I’d love to see this – particularly as it apes in part the Gary Trudeau…

With a name like Paris Barclay, you’re likely to spot it when it comes up on credits. Even more so when the same name pops up twice in one evening. First off was episode four of the fourth series of The West Wing, followed a short while later by episode eight of series 2 of…

The final episode of Spooks aired last night on BBC1 after I was made to wait a week (since the preview episode thing doesn’t apply to final shows). The first series ended with a big does she/doesn’t she die in the explosion cliffhanger. As it turned out she didn’t, but another bomb elsewhere in London…

NASN – the North American Sports Network – has recently been added to the Telewest Digital universe, and I believe we’re getting it free on a temporary basis before they attempt to charge me a tenner a month. In the meantime, I’m dosing up on baseball and the like. I could go off on a…

Blakes 7 to come back according to it’s website. With my finger on the pulse, I heard about this the other day, but forgot to mention it. I’d love to say that I have mixed feelings as many of the Slashdot lot have, but I don’t. I’d love to see it return. I own all…

Back in the autumn of 2001, this was the big BBC costume drama, and for reasons I don’t quite recall now, I missed it. It’s been on a couple of times since on UK Drama, and I missed it both times, so I resolved not to do so again. Saturday night saw episodes one and…

Well Tim Henman forced Spooks off our screens, with BBC 3 repeating the previous week’s claustrophobic episode. Once again, we had no actual “incident”, rather the ramifications of a Presidential visit to the UK. The episode seemed reasonably realistic, although any kind of personnel officer who behaved as the MI5 one did wouldn’t last long.…